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  • The Serval is a spotted cat -- black upon a pale-yellowish ground -- and considerably larger than the domestic species.

    Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850

  • For old times sake you do get a nice view from one end of the plaza to the UHaul sign that used to be the Serval Zipper sign that used to be one of the things off in the distance beyond Shea's outfield fence.

    Archive 2009-06-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • For old times sake you do get a nice view from one end of the plaza to the UHaul sign that used to be the Serval Zipper sign that used to be one of the things off in the distance beyond Shea's outfield fence.

    Citi Field The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • Many of the animals, such as a massive python, crocodiles, birds, and even an African Serval which looks like a very large domestic cat or a small cheetah, are animals that have been confiscated by Federal Law Enforcement or abandoned or are simply animals that really were never meant to be pets no matter how cute their owners thought they were when they were little.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Enchanted Green Hallow's Eve 2008

  • The pricey pet is said to have been produced by cross-breeding an African Serval and an Asian Leopard Cat with a domestic feline.

    A New Breed Of Designer Cats | Impact Lab 2007

  • It was developed from the African Serval, the Asian Leopard cat and domestic cats, and offered by Lifestyle Pets.

    YesButNoButYes: Expensive Pussy 2007

  • Serval and others, in “Le Pionnier” river-steamer, give it an average breadth of 8,200 feet, though broken by sand-banks and islands; the depth in the main channel, which at times is narrow and difficult to find, averages between sixteen and forty-eight feet; and, in the dry season of 1862, the vessel ran up sixty English miles.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Serval and Griffon du Bellay, who were sent by the French government in

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Balzacian writers, M.dame Carraud became the type of the _femme incomprise_ for Balzac, but the present writer is inclined to agree with M. Serval when he calls this judgment astonishing, since she was

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • I returned there in the autumn to shoot with my friend Serval, who had at last rebuilt his chateau, which the Prussians had destroyed.

    Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

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