Sentence examples for of a jackal from inspiring English sources

Anubis, also called Anpu, ancient Egyptian god of the dead, represented by a jackal or the figure of a man with the head of a jackal.

Other premonitions of things to come include the show's opening work: a carved-stone image of a jackal the size of a large kitten.

Stopping at a rock, he pointed to several barely discernible white stripes -- a small chevron -- that were the vertebrae of a jackal.

Recently, he met a man of seventy who told him he had just learned for the first time the way to solve the problem of a jackal attracted to a sheep farm.

During the scene in which Ephraim exults in his new fatherhood — taunting Eben with the loss of his inheritance, unaware that his son has fathered Abbie's child — Mr. Dennehy exudes the hungry malice of a jackal tearing away at a rodent.

"Was it cataclysmic subsidence or was it gradual?" Herakleion was the site of temples for Hercules -- described by the Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in 450 B.C. -- and other gods including Serapis, a sun god, Isis the life-giver and Anubis, the god of the dead with the head of a jackal.

"Look," he says, and allows himself the trace of a jackal-like smirk, "I set up a business 25 years ago and it's better than I thought it would be, by a big margin.

Paradigms include the property of being a specific sort of elementary particle (e.g., the property of being a neutron), chemical elements (e.g., the property of being gold), and biological species (e.g., the property of being a jackal).

A jackal of the battlefield.

Eagleton is in an awkward position: he is a Marxist in good standing and has no wish to be denounced by his comrades as a jackal of the clerico-capitalist bourgeoisie.

The gray stone statue of a watchful jackal, its head raised, alerted to some presence in the offing, is on loan from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, attached to the University of California, Berkeley.