Dog also known as the Persian Greyhound and Royal Dog of Egypt

Usage examples of saluki.

Too, he remembered a domination spell illustrated with a saluki, a greyhound.

The dog, jet-black, was clipped short all over and resembled a Saluki with tight curls.

Ringing the tribe at a thousand yards were the rest of the warriors, accompanied by their eldest sons, sleek saluki hunting hounds, and falcons.

The widow pulled the hide off the rabbit and threw it to a saluki lurking on the edge of their camp.

Of all the Saluki hounds in the kennel, he was the best for coursing, the most intelligent of his very ancient breed.

The Emir invited us hunting and a Saluki bitch named Adilla cornered it for me right under the walls there.

We are ordered to let them have riding-horses and we occasionally turn out quite a creditable hunt with Saluki hounds after jackals.

James B himself hailed before Wink County Court over his mastiff and salukis fighting making the night hideous with their howls?

We walked across the courtyard to the gate, where we were joined by three merry salukis, and a pair of armed guards fell in behind us.

At the base of the hill we continued around, as I had done the first day, although instead of going on to the stables, the salukis flashed down a tree-lined set of steps leading to the left, in the direction of a growing chorus of jungle noises.

But as I had remembered, there was an unnatural space between the bushes and the building where the salukis had bounded as at a familiar way, and the ground under our feet bore the unmistakable imprint of traffic.

He let his gaze wander back to the little group of mounted cadgers, carrying the rest of the birds on the open frameworks strapped to their shoulders, and the dog handlers, struggling with a yapping pack of salukis who looked goggle-eyed and elephant-faced in their long-snouted breathing masks.