The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usage examples of "beisa".
The beisa had slowed now to an exhausted trot, but the range was six hundred yards as the Count sighted across the intervening scrub and through heat-dancing air that swirled like gelatinous liquid.
The animal was almost beyond effective range now, but the next bullet fired with the rear sight at maximum elevation fell in a long arcing trajectory and they heard the thump of the strike, long after the beisa had collapsed abruptly and disappeared below the line of grey scrub.
The beisa is one of the most aggressive antelopes in Africa, capable of killing even a fully grown lion with its long rapier horns.
The beisa snorted, and the Count forgot all about the levelled pistol in his hand in his sudden desperate desire to reach the safety of the Rolls.
Leading the beisa by six inches, he vaulted lightly into the back seat and crouched on the floorboards, covering his head with both arms while the beisa battered the sides of the Rolls, driving in one door and ripping the paintwork with the deadly horns.
Satisfied that the beisa was at last dead, the Count descended and walked slowly towards a nearby clump of thorn scrub, but his gait was bow-legged and stiff, for he had lightly soiled his magnificently monogrammed silk underwear.
The picture of open jaws and fangs suddenly reminded him with considerable force of his nerve racking brush with the beisa oryx.
After his alarming experience with the beisa oryx, the Count was not eager to take foolhardy risks.
The beisa is one of the most aggressive antelopes in Africa, capable of killing even a fully grown lion with its long rapier horns.
Satisfied that the beisa was at last dead, the Count descended and walked slowly towards a nearby clump of thorn scrub, but his gait was bow-legged and stiff, for he had lightly soiled his magnificently monogrammed silk underwear.
The picture of open jaws and fangs suddenly reminded him with considerable force of his nerve racking brush with the beisa oryx.
After his alarming experience with the beisa oryx, the Count was not eager to take foolhardy risks.