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Giraffe

noun

Tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa. Synonyms: camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis.

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"Giraffe" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a colored woman asleep on the rug before the fireplace. Kate would not go to bed. She determined to stay awake until Harry should come home. But the sofa-cushions became more and more pleasant, and very soon she was dreaming that Harry had shot a giraffe, and had skinned it, and had stuffed the skin full of sumac-leaves, and that he and she were pulling it through the woods, and that the legs caught in the trees and they could not get it along, and then she woke up. It was bright daylight. But Harry ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

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... The mind of the Englishman does not readily accept anything he cannot see or even sometimes anything he can see which is unprecedented in his experience, so that like the West American farmer, confronted for the first time by the sight of a giraffe, his impulse is to cry out angrily: "I ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

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... that was pickin'-up at Big Billabong," said the Giraffe. "He had to knock off the first week, an' he's been here ever since. They're sendin' him away to the hospital in Sydney by the speeshall train. They're just goin' to take him up in the wagonette to the railway station, an' I thought I might as well go round with the hat an' get him a few bob. ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

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Words linked to "Giraffe" : okapi, ruminant, Giraffa, genus Giraffa, Okapia johnstoni, camelopard