snow-leopardess

Example Sentences

• "“And she placed a yellow snake at your feet!” sneered Gutchlug. “Prince Sanang, tell me, what man or what devil in all the chronicles of the past has ever tamed a Snow-Leopard?” And he continued to hone his yataghan. / “Gutchlug⸺” / “No, she dies,” said the other tranquilly. / “Not yet!” / “When, then?” / “Gutchlug, thou knowest me. Hear my pledge! At her first gesture toward treachery—her first thought of betrayal—I myself will end it all.” / “You promise to slay this young snow-leopardess?”"
• "“Teufelstuck!” he screamed, “ain’t I tell efferybody in Yian already it iss safer if we cut your throat! Devil-slut of Erlik—snow-leopardess!—cat of the Yezidees who has made of Sanang a fool!—it iss I who haf said always, always, that you know too damn much! . . . Kai! . . . I hear my soul bidding me farewell. Gif me my shroud!”"
• "But, for a Yezidee, there was still a little detail to attend to before his soul departed;—two matters to regulate. One was to select his shroud. The other was to cut the white throat of this young snow-leopardess called Keuke Mongol, the Yezidee temple girl."
• "Turning to her guest, she found her no longer a Madonna—a snow-leopardess, sleek and self-seeking; herself as she had been at Venice. Were all girls like that? […] Next morning no reply from Dick. The snow-leopardess was unperturbed as ever. The bustle of departure. Jim’s portrait in the hall smiling down on her. White Chimneys, as she drove away, staring forsakenly."
• "We were on our way back to camp after a fruitless search for ibex marks when we suddenly disturbed a snow-leopardess with two cubs that were sunning themselves on a ledge of rock just below us."
• "Even as the beast sprang, the keen steel whistled through the air, and the headless body of the snow-leopardess lurched sideways—fell, sideways, and lay kicking convulsively, dark fountains of blood spouting from the severed neck."