Sentence examples for jackal from inspiring English sources

It would surely hurt her movement if she were to join the Dalai Lama in China's official view as a "jackal in monk's clothing" (or a jackal in a htamain, as it were).

In Africa it is said that "even the jackal deserves to drink .A second consequence is that water often has a sacred or mystical quality that is invested in deities like Gong Gong and Osiris and rivers like the Jordan and the Ganges.

China has responded in time-worn, depressing fashion: with massive numbers of troops; with the trundling out of Cultural Revolution-era political invective ("The Dalai Lama is a jackal wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and animal's heart". For pity's sake); and with the exclusion of the foreign press from affected areas.

The African jackal became the American fox.

Uniquely Ethiopian and among the most endangered species are the walia ibex of the Simien Mountains, the mountain nyala (a kind of antelope), the Simien jackal, and the gelada monkey.

The boar, wildcat, jackal, adder, gurza (a venomous snake), scorpion, and, more rarely, the leopard inhabit this region.

Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan, the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Tabaqui the jackal, Shere Khan's obsequious servant; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.

The aardwolf, family Hyaenidae, is sometimes called a maned, or gray, jackal.

Known as Syut in ancient Egypt, the city was a centre of worship of the jackal-headed god Wepwawet.

The Panchatantra, a Sanskrit compilation of beast fables, has survived only in an 8th-century Arabic translation known as the Kalīlah wa Dimnah, named for two jackal-counselors (Kalīlah and Dimnah) to a lion king.

In Hellenistic times it was known as Lycopolis ("Wolf City"), an allusion to the worship of the jackal-headed god.