What is "borzois"

Usage examples of "borzois".

Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.

Once, as a young Carpathian, not quite yet in full power, practicing his shape-shifting with Jacques, his best friend, two borzois had spotted them as they shifted to wolves in a field.

The borzois were swift and silent hunters, running them down relentlessly.

He had never seen an animal quite like the borzois and thought Queen Victoria very smart for wanting the creatures in her royal palace.

Byron knew the accepted theory was that borzois had been around six to eight hundred years.

He had never seen an animal quite like the borzois and thought Queen Victoria very smart for wanting the creatures in her royal palace.

He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois, set off across the threshing ground to a field leading to the Otradnoe wood.

The borzois jumped up, jerking the rings of the leashes and pricking their ears.

Nicholas, in a voice not his own, and of its own accord his good horse darted headlong downhill, leaping over gullies to head off the wolf, and the borzois passed it, running faster still.

Nicholas did not hear his own cry nor feel that he was galloping, nor see the borzois, nor the ground over which he went: he saw only the wolf, who, increasing her speed, bounded on in the same direction along the hollow.

The wolf crouched, gnashed her teeth, and again rose and bounded forward, followed at the distance of a couple of feet by all the borzois, who did not get any closer to her.

The terrified wolf pressed back her ears and tried to rise, but the borzois stuck to her.

Ilagin looked at his borzois and picked out Milka who attracted his attention by her breadth.

The pack on leash rushed downhill in full cry after the hare, and from all sides the borzois that were not on leash darted after the hounds and the hare.

He took a dozen bounds, not very quickly, letting the borzois gain on him, and, finally having chosen his direction and realized his danger, laid back his ears and rushed off headlong.