noun
definition
A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with longer silkier hair.
Examples of borzois in a Sentence
He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois, set off across the threshing ground to a field leading to the Otradnoe wood.
Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.
The angry borzois whined and getting free of the leash rushed past the horses' feet at the wolf.
Rostov, holding his breath, looked round at the borzois.
The borzois jumped up, jerking the rings of the leashes and pricking their ears.
The wolf crouched, gnashed her teeth, and again rose and bounded forward, followed at the distance of a couple of feet by all the borzois, who did not get any closer to her.
The terrified wolf pressed back her ears and tried to rise, but the borzois stuck to her.
The hounds had killed two of the cubs and the borzois three.
The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field.
The borzois bore down on it....
Now they drew close to the fox which began to dodge between the field in sharper and sharper curves, trailing its brush, when suddenly a strange white borzoi dashed in followed by a black one, and everything was in confusion; the borzois formed a star-shaped figure, scarcely swaying their bodies and with tails turned away from the center of the group.
Having ridden up to Nicholas, Ilagin raised his beaver cap and said he much regretted what had occurred and would have the man punished who had allowed himself to seize a fox hunted by someone else's borzois.
And considering it polite to return the young count's compliment, Ilagin looked at his borzois and picked out Milka who attracted his attention by her breadth.
Why, you've given a village for each of your borzois!
The pack on leash rushed downhill in full cry after the hare, and from all sides the borzois that were not on leash darted after the hounds and the hare.
He took a dozen bounds, not very quickly, letting the borzois gain on him, and, finally having chosen his direction and realized his danger, laid back his ears and rushed off headlong.
A ring of borzois surrounded him.
There, it has beaten them all, the thousand-ruble as well as the one-ruble borzois.
Four borzois with collars were pressing close to the wheels.