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...preferable to unacknowledged proximity." She grew deeply attached to him; he of course worshiped her abjectly; they lived together through months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene until she asked him to pick a certain blue lotus. Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams." She hated to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Octans and Orena | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...hurt him. Twice he was caught?once in a trap, once in a cave. He escaped. The hills were poisoned with strychnine. He lived. It was then that the natives declared that God alone could kill the killer, for though in form he had the look of a great leopard he was not a leopard. He was Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Leopard | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Next day they found a dead leopard 50 yards down a ravine. There was a bullet in his heart. His length was 7 feet 10 inches, and he was very old?so old that his years could not be reckoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Leopard | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...inspection by the U. S. public and its children: lions and pygmy mice (bumblebee size); black rhinoceroses and hyraxes; giraffes; eland (the Zoo has but one aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

More varied were the offerings of "sundry cat," aggregating about 25,000 skins in one day. Russian cat went for $2.00, leopard cat as high as $1.70, Hungarian cat at $1.40, spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fur Trade | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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