Word: carnivorae
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...Carnivora...
...good "bag" was expected, as the camp was surrounded by lions and many other carnivora. The Duke had previously shot a zebra and a pallah (antelope). The Duchess "bagged" a great collection of small game...
...have not been at all well lately. I think it is the food in this fetid place. Then too, among the herd of carnivora, whose only thought is on their stomachs, one has no desire to eat. Here the prize steers, the ones selected for the athletic contests, they take to the training tables to fatten. The rest have to fight for scraps anywhere on the outskirts of the campus. I am so finely adjusted that the balance must be easily disturbed, I think, one way or another. At any rate, when I went today to the drug store...
...consider them in order, taking the lowest class, the Carnivora, first. This class comprises all proctors of prey, and it is indeed a numerous one. Its habits are strange, and form a very interesting study, and that you may know them the better, I will mention a few of their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind...
...divide all proctors into three great classes, - the Carnivora, the Ungulates, and the Anthropoids, - and these divisions are based, not on my own observations alone, but on those of the many...