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Definition of Blesboks
1. blesbok [n] - See also: blesbok
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blesboks
Literary usage of Blesboks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1874)
"Throughout the greater part of the plains frequented by blesboks, numbers of the
sun-baked hills or mounds of clay formed by the white ants occur. ..."
2. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1855)
"Start on my fifth, and last Expedition into the Interior — Mr. Orpen accompanies
me —• Hurried March — Extraordinary Herd of blesboks — The Hart River ..."
3. African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous (1908)
"... species which was discovered about one hundred years later in the neighbourhood
of the Orange river, although these latter were undoubtedly blesboks and ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"The springboks, which in equal numbers frequent the same ground, do not, in
general, adopt the same decided course as the blesboks, but take away in every ..."
5. The Lion Hunter by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1915)
"The springboks, which in equal numbers frequent the same ground, do not, in
general, adopt the same decided course as the blesboks, but take away in every ..."
6. Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions by Rowland Ward (1899)
"Yet, thirty or forty years ago, blesboks often literally darkened the face of
... The plains," he says, " exhibited one purple mass of graceful blesboks, ..."
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