BORZOI

bôrˈzoi, breed of tall, swift hound developed in Russia in the early 17th cent., also called Russian wolfhound. It stands from 26 to 31 in. (66–81.2 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs about 85 lb (38.6 kg). Its long, silky coat may be flat, wavy or curly, and forms fringes of longer hair, or feathers, on the chest, back of legs, and tail. The coat may be any color but is usually white with lemon, brindle, tan, gray, or black markings. Originally bred for hunting wolves and coursing hares, it is now most popular as a show competitor and pet. See dog.

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books on: Borzoi  - 372 results

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The Borzoi
Book by Ivan Turgenev, Harry Stevens; Alfred A. Knopf, 1950
Subjects: Fiction
...albums. "How humble I have become!" he thought. A handsome borzoi with a blue collar ran into the room, its nails tapping on...herself by her sister, and began to pick over the flowers. The borzoi, which was called Fifi, approached each guest in turn, wagging...
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Alfred A. Knopf, Quarter Century
Book; Book Table, 1940
Subjects: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, Knopf, Alfred A.--1892-1984
...letting it go out of print . Knopf, with his Borzoi nose to the ground, sensed the change...publishing credo, revealed by him in the Borzoi Yearbook for 1920 , he stated that he would try to make Borzoi books as well as he knew how. He would...
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An Enquiry into Goodness: And Related Concepts; with Some Remarks on the Nature and Scope of Such Enquiries
Book by F. E. Sparshott; University Of Toronto Press, 1958
Subjects: Good And Evil
...The points which make an animal a good borzoi will presumably except in the quasi...another. The dog adjudged best in the borzoi class may also be adjudged "Best Dog...perfection or come closer to being a perfect borzoi than the winner in the bulldog class came...
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Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage
Book by Sally Banes; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Body, Human, Sex In Dance, Women Dancers, Women--Identity
...Wigman-style modern dance (Lloyd, Borzoi Book, p. 250). According to Lloyd...Doubleday, 1976), p. 165. 102 Lloyd, Borzoi Book, p. 245. 103 Program for a performance...Drake, Foreword, p. xii. 111 Lloyd, Borzoi Book, pp. 245, 247. 112 For instance...
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War and Peace
Book by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Russia--Fiction, Russia--History--Alexander I, 1801-1825--Fiction, Russia--Social Life And Customs--1533-1917--Fiction
...but the swift and strong borzois caught and killed the game. A borzoi has very poor scent and only...If the game shams dead, a borzoi is often balked and hesitates...hare suddenly squatted and the borzoi did not seize it ch. 6 . 529...
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journal articles on: Borzoi  - 15 results

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Dogs and People: The History and Psychology of a Relationship
Journal article; Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, Vol. 24-26, 1996
Subjects: Authors--Addresses, essays, lectures, Coren, Stanley--Addresses, essays, lectures, Dog breeds--Social aspects, Dog owners--Psychology and mental health, Dogs--Social aspects, Psychologists--Addresses, essays, lectures
...kind of dog. Consider the Borzoi, with its long coat and its...after an evil family, the Borzois. Sighthounds were also modified...one. He has big beautiful Borzoi, the elegant running sighthounds...Spaniel Black And Tan Coonhound Borzoi Chinese Shar-Pei Dalmatian...
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A Milorad Pavic Checklist
Journal article; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Pavic, Milorad--Bibliography, Slavic literature--Bibliography
...Classicism and Pre-Romanticism. Belgrade, 1979. Ruski hrt / Borzoi. Belgrade, 1979. Nove beogradske price /New Belgrade Stories...with Tea. Excerpt." Trans. Christina Pribicevic-Zoric. Borzoi Reader 2.1 (1990): 36-37. "The Eyes of the Mind...
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Maidens and Their Guardians: Interpreting the "Rapunzel" Tale
Journal article by Laura J. Getty; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 30, 1997
Subjects: Fairy tales--Analysis
...frog, the prince receives a pigs snout, and the story ends (Borzoi 107). Delarue divided the elements of the French variants...Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1988. 66-89. Delarue, Paul. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. New York: Knopf, 1956...
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Worlds of Eye and Ear in the Poems of William Harmon
Journal article by Al Benthall; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Harmon, William--Criticism and interpretation, Literary styles--Criticism and interpretation, Poetic techniques--Criticism and interpretation, Poetics--Criticism and interpretation, Style, Literary--Criticism and interpretation
...some less orthodox experiments in sound repetition (e.g., borzoi and for joy, echo and threshold). 2. Brass and Percussion...little bell, which tings as the edge approaches Bell sounds: borzoi salivates. Existence sings as if for joy. It tintinnabulates...
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Milorad Pavic: "He Thinks the Way We Dream"
Journal article by Radmila Jovanovic Gorup; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Pavic, Milorad--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Serbs--Literature
...collections of short stories--The Horses of St. Mark (1976), Borzoi (1979), New Belgrade Stories (1981)--and prose and poetry...stories (The Iron Curtain 1973, St. Marcos Horses 1976, Borzoi 1979, New Belgrade Stories 1981, and The Inverted Glove 1989...
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Immortality
Magazine article by Don Akenson; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 110, Winter 2003
Subjects: An Irish History of Civilization (Book)--Excerpts
...always claimed was a present from Queen Victoria. Variously remembered as a greyhound and as a large bulldog, he was in fact a Borzoi. The beast has taken a musket ball that entered his anus, and travelled all the way through his body and passed out his right...
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Pearl Primus
Magazine article by Elizabeth McPherson; Dance Teacher, Vol. 31, March 2009
Subjects: College students, Colleges & universities, Dancers & choreographers, Educational sociology, Field study, Musical performances, Performing arts, Television directors & producers, Theater
...where her "qualities of spontaneity, speed and power were instantly recognized," wrote Margaret Lloyd, author of The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance. The faculty, which included Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow, Nona Schurman and William Bales, greatly...
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Rediscovering Sassoon
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; New Criterion, Vol. 24, November 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Siegfried Sassoon: A Life (Book)--Book reviews
...in the trenches of the Western Front. Tall, elegant, rather mournful-looking--T. H. White said that he resembled a Borzoi hound--Sassoon epitomized the promise of the generation sacrificed on the battlefields of France, and spoke for it in verses...
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Tamara Geva: First a Muse & Then a Wife
Magazine article by John Gruen; Dance Magazine, Vol. 71, June 1997
Subjects: Balanchine, George--Biography, Dancers--Biography, Dancing--History, Geva, Tamara--Interviews
...The first was called Romanesque, a very classical piece danced in a white wig and with props. The props were two large white Borzoi dogs. I danced with them and around them. It was something very new. The second piece was Grotesque Espagnol to music of...
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Profile: A.s.c
Magazine article by John Ormond; American Cinematographer, Vol. 58, June 1977
...In order, they have: a yellow-headed Amazon parrot named Eddie; a cockateel; six finches; four cats; and two Russian Borzoi dogs named Nicholas and Alexandra, one black and one white. "Eddie isnt scared by the cats," he comments. "If anything...
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newspaper articles on: Borzoi  - 26 results

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MAESTRO HITS THE TOP NOTE; IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELIANT WINDOWS LTD Pounds 800 Gelding Breaks Bridgwater's Duck
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), April 22, 2007
...Warwickshire trainer Gary Bridgwater, Borzoi Maestro is worth his weight in gold...year, then I will be disappointed." Borzoi Maestro had only just been touched off...see that I have had placed horses." Borzoi Maestro is the first horse that the racing...
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Horse Racing: MAESTRO HITS THE TOP NOTE; Pounds 800 Gelding Breaks Bridgwater's Duck IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELIANT WINDOWS LTD
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), April 22, 2007
...Warwickshire trainer Gary Bridgwater, Borzoi Maestro is worth his weight in gold...year, then I will be disappointed." Borzoi Maestro had only just been touched off...see that I have had placed horses." Borzoi Maestro is the first horse that the racing...
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Interview: Never Shy and Retiring; Empire Theatre Stalwart Ellen Kent Is Marking Her 60th Birthday with a Whole New Career. She Tells All to Laura Davis
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 20, 2009
...the first of her animals, starring in Carmen in 2002. Since then her productions have featured several more horses, Russian Borzoi hunting dogs ("and lots of naked women in Rigoletto," Kent adds), golden eagles, falcons, koi carp and lots and lots...
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B Here Are the Answers to Last Week's 'B' Puzzle.How Many Did You Find?
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 9, 2011
...Bones Bongo Bongo Drums Bonnet Bonnet Monkey Bonsai Tree Book Bookbinding Bookmark Boom Boomerang Boot Booze Border Bordure Borzoi Bosom Boss Botany Botswana Bottle Bottlenose Bougainvillaea Bough Bound Bout Boutonniere Bow (x4) Bowerbird Bowie Knife Bowing...
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MasterMinds
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), December 11, 2010
...Cherries (Morello cherries); 23. Flags or heraldic symbols; 24. The British invasion; 25. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge; 26. Borzoi; 27. Africa; 28. Sugar Puffs; 29. Davis Strait; 30. Penalty spot in football (soccer) Answers Some Like It Hot; 5...
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encyclopedia articles on: Borzoi  - 5 results

 
 
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Borzoi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BORZOI bor zoi, breed of tall, swift hound developed in Russia in the early 17th cent., also called Russian wolfhound. It stands...
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Russian Wolfhound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RUSSIAN WOLFHOUND see borzoi . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...registered with the American Kennel Club: Afghan hound , American foxhound , basenji , basset hound , beagle , bloodhound , borzoi , black-and-tan coonhound , dachshund , English foxhound , greyhound , harrier , Irish wolfhound , Norwegian elkhound...
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Modern Dance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cohen, ed., The Modern Dance (1965); D. McDonagh, The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance (1970); M. Lloyd, The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance (1970); S. A. Kriegsman, Modern Dance in America (1981); S. Au, Ballet and Modern Dance (1988...
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Knopf, Alfred A
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...publishers, and specialized in producing books that were outstanding for fine printing, binding, and design. His colophon, the borzoi, became synonymous with beauty and taste in book design and high standards in the selection of books for publication...


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