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gazelle

Any of a number of lightly built, fast-running antelopes found on the open plains of Africa and southern Asia. (Especially species of the genus Gazella.)
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He had just had a quarrel with his partner on the sloop Gazelle, and knives had been drawn, and blows struck, and he was bent on maddening the fever of the memory with more whisky.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat--a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No.
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All the attitudes and movements of this beautiful animal are graceful and picturesque; and it is altogether as fit a subject for the fanciful uses of the poet as the oft-sung gazelle of the East.
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