Nighttime hunters

Usage examples of leopards.

At sight of it that revolving wheel of leopards had instantly stopped.

But even quicker than the pause and hover of the leopards was the action of the Beast Men.

These were murderous moments-a scent of blood in the air from the slaughtered deer, a voice commanding the leopards to kill him.

Kwa, with a rush of gratitude, knew that now, at any rate, the leopards would be held in check.

The Beast Man had meant this as a taunt, and the leopards were ready to take it up.

A few leopards had caught up with him shortly after Kwa and his friends had turned him loose.

For example, leopards would often take the skull of a victim and put it up in a tree.

And they let the leopards do their killing for them, which the leopards were glad to do.

But there were those who believed that leopards, after all, were even better.

And, strangely enough, leopards were the standby of the Sapadi Lodge-a secret that not even the shrewdest leopard had ever learned.

When Bele and his sort have been killing Leopards for a thousand years!

NEW Moon Night, and ever since the first glimmer of the slim crescent could be seen against the green of the sky, the leopards had been assembling more or less, as they always did, in the vicinity of the Fire Pit Lodge of the Beast Men.

Then, this stupendous broadcast that the Leopards were on their way to destroy their old gods, accept the new.

The Bush for miles around the ,entrance to the Fire Pit Lodge was swarming with all the beasts of this part of Africa-and no animal afraid of another-as the leopards drove into the corridor of the shallow river, then into the rock entrance of the forbidden lodge room.

The leopards were like a river that flowed upstream-or more like some enormous serpent, with a thousand heads, glittering as if with greenfire stones, as the staring eyes of the wrapt and concentrated cats went by.