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  • These were the little soft cries of the sapajous, the moans of the alouate apes, the howlings of the jaguar and couguar, the peccary and the sloth, and the cries of (many) birds.

    The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

  • He counted the couguar a coward, because he showed no resentment.

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • The animal, whom Clare had taken for a young lion -- without being so far wrong, for he has often been called the American lion -- was the puma, or couguar, peculiar to

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • Right up on end stood the couguar, flattening his front against the bars of the cage, which he clawed furiously, snarling and spitting and yelling like the huge cat he was, every individual hair on end, and his eyes like green lightning.

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • These were the little soft cries of the sapajous, the moans of the alouate apes, the howlings of the jaguar and couguar, the peccary, and the sloth, and the cries of the curassao, the parraka, and other gallinaceous birds.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Luckily, the old horse, making a fresh retrogression, caused the couguar again to advance along the log, in the same creeping attitude as before.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • The red couguar and brown wolverene crouch along the edges of the thicket, to contest with jackal and wolf the possession of the carcass, where some stray quadruped has fallen a victim to the hungry troop; while black vultures wheeling aloft, await the issue of the conflict.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • Not a marksman in the mountains could match with her, except Don Jose himself, who taught her; and as for hunting -- _la linda cazadora_! she can steal upon the game like a couguar.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • If, at intervals, be heard the wild scream of the couguar, or the distant howling of wolves, these scarcely interrupt the music falling endlessly upon the ear -- the red cardinals, the orioles, the warbling _fringillidae_, and the polyglot thrushes -- who meet here, as if by agreement, to make this lovely sylvan spot the scene of their forest concerts.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • Both proved sufficiently true for the destruction of the couguar.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

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