| 单词 | tigerish |
| 例句 | There was no tigerish growl now in his tormentor’s voice. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The madwoman could hear the Head Sister’s tigerish growl rumbling underground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z That said, no man can resist her dark, magnetic eyes while her impulsive, passionate nature sometimes seems tigerish. Review | Sure ‘Dracula’ is great, but don’t overlook Florence Marryat’s ‘The Blood of the Vampire’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “Bring it on, William,” she says with a tigerish smile when Will threatens payback. Television: In Fox?s ?Glee,? It?s the Attitude That?s the Showstopper 2010-04-09T18:08:00Z He is tigerishly protective of their place in the spotlight — he said that he had a clause written into Ms. Kasler’s contract that prevents Ballard from hiring another designer without consulting her. Up Close: An Interior Design Deal-Maker Leaves His Mark 2011-08-08T21:29:47Z As is almost always the case with a Speak to the Manager, the cut was accentuated by deliberately obvious highlights, striping tigerishly up toward the crisp bristle atop the head. Big Hair and Big Thoughts at a Paris Museum 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The last thing one would have expected of him was tigerish ambition. Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Fitted with jam-jar spectacles off the pitch, and thick contact lenses on it, Stiles' eye for a tigerish tackle instantly improved. The 'toothless fella' who meant so much to fans 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z This mutinous Tory crew, who loathe one another with tigerish ferocity, are responsible for an economy in a dire state. Corbyn is a changed man – and he’s forging a path to power | Polly Toynbee 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The patrons were treated to one staggeringly good rally after another as, energised by the nearness of the prize, they fought tigerishly for every point, fist-pumped every success. Andy Murray knocked out of French Open by Stan Wawrinka in semi-final 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Kante is famously a quiet man, yet on the pitch he is a tigerish opponent. PFA Player of the Year: Chelsea's N'Golo Kante wins top award for 2016-17 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Nadal, reaching for an unprecedented 10th title at the same venue, was irresistible in the first set of his opening match, but tigerish resistance by the world No45 stunned the Spaniard in an enthralling three-setter. Andy Murray overcomes slow start to beat Gilles Müller in Monte Carlo 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Spurs began to enjoy the lion’s share of possession but Boro were no pussycats and defended tigerishly. Tottenham’s Harry Kane scores penalty to break Middlesbrough resistance 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Victory, of course, presented the bigger prize: avoiding Djokovic ahead of the final – and Murray pursued it with tigerish enthusiasm. Andy Murray sees off Stan Wawrinka to reach ATP World Tour semi-finals 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The pack, wonderfully led by skipper Michael Leitch, were inspired from start to finish, the midfield tigerish, the whole occasion almost surreal. Japan beat South Africa in greatest Rugby World Cup shock ever 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The visitors were excellent throughout the match - lively with ball in hand, tigerish in defence and a constant nuisance at the breakdown. Bath 20-15 Glasgow Warriors 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Wells was two metres clear off the bend, but Mennea – always tigerish over the final 50 metres – wore the Scot down. Pietro Mennea obituary 2013-03-22T18:44:18Z He held then fought with tigerish intensity for another break point in the ninth game, before Murray saved with an ace. Murray reaches fourth round 2013-01-19T06:57:10Z Born in Dock Sud, a tough seafront quarter of Buenos Aires, he still competes with a tigerish authority. World's 100 greatest footballers: Nos 70-41 2012-12-22T00:06:18Z Although Somerset fought tigerishly in the field this was not enough to prevent Hampshire winning by six wickets. Yorkshire and Hampshire see off Sussex and Somerset to reach T20 final 2012-08-25T16:42:40Z And although their tigerish fielding contained some uncharacteristic errors, there was no doubting its aggressive intent. Yorkshire reach T20 quarter-finals with Nottinghamshire's first defeat 2012-07-05T22:16:00Z Until then, Ulster had fought tigerishly and inventively. Dominant Leinster rule roost again 2012-05-19T18:19:47Z The tigerish glare which had flickered for an instant in his eyes, gave place to a languid smile; and he shrugged his shoulders. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z She made one tigerish effort to free herself, shrugged, and signified that she surrendered. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z His singular face had all the while grown darker and more tigerish. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z He was deathly white, with an almost tigerish expression, and she knew he had been drinking. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Down behind the back of the chair he crouched and watched both doors with tigerish steadiness. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z It was as though she had roused some almost tigerish trait. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z But that army, large and powerful as it is, has not been able to defend them from the tigerish brutality of their foes. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Sometimes I don’t know but that it may be a drop of what is tigerish in their blood.” Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z "Not one shall escape," Koyala reiterated, the tigerish light glowing in her eyes. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z Josh Perrott ended with a tigerish snarl and a white spot at the curl of each of his nostrils. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z James Tichel, the third mate, was a thin little old man given to occasional bursts of tigerish rage in which he was the match for any man aboard. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z As she sat there, the light playing on her ruddy hair, her black eyes agleam with tantalizing mirth, Constance could not but wonder at her tigerish beauty. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Often the power that was intended to bless turns to poison when it is repressed, and makes men hypocritical and tigerish. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z War is so tigerish in its ruthlessness, so demoniacal in its treatment of ethical principles, so un-Christian in matter and in method, that it appears impossible to characterize any participation as righteous. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z How the wicked, tigerish eyes gleamed when the creature ran on again with eager haste and dripping fangs! Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z He met Dan'l's charge with the tigerish venom that characterized him in his rages; he leaped and was fairly in the air when Dan'l struck him. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z She has that cruel, tigerish way about her. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z "These proceedings are not quite to your taste, eh, Knéz?" said he, with a tigerish grin. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z And all with such a tigerish swing, such a wild and masterful certitude, that even Bowles could not but secretly admire him. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z The millionaire gazed at the earnest young face, and slowly a smile grew in his eyes, a smile which only rendered their expression more tigerish. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z As it sprang tigerishly in the air and fell, fixing its predatory claws in another cut, Dorinda looked down with a startled air. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z At heart she was the same tigerish young person, ready to claw at a moment’s notice. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z However, Birmingham produced the tenacity and tigerish attitude that typified their Carling Cup final success over Arsenal and put up a brave fight before eventually falling to a valiant defeat. Bolton earn late Cup win at Blues 2011-03-12T14:40:41Z With tigerish agility the man leaped over the beast, striking down as he did so. Polaris of the Snows 2011-03-02T03:00:28.900Z And the handsome face of the maharajah took on a tigerish look. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z I think those serpentine, willowy, tigerish, squirmy actresses are perfectly splendid. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z All my tigerish blood flashed up in a moment. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z This was no charm of little cherubs; this was the stark radiance of tigerish enchantment: the golden glitter of his eyes, the sinewy litheness of his stealthy paw.... The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z And he doubled his right fist and raised it like a hammer, with a tigerish roar. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z It seems everyone's a tiger now, and the more humiliating the defeat the more tigerish the consequences. Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend 2010-12-06T10:44:00Z For Somerset, who had fought tigerishly while defending an inadequate score, a magnificent season had ended in failure. Ian Bell's century gives Warwickshire famous victory over Somerset 2010-09-18T21:17:00Z He played the majority of his reserve games out wide but after the tigerish Lee Cattermole was injured, Henderson was put in the first team in a central role. England's future stars - ones to watch for the 2014 World Cup squad 2010-06-30T16:54:00Z The midfielder is all tigerish energy, charging from box to box whether it be in practice sessions or in matches. Who's for the World Cup chop in Fabio Capello's England? 2010-05-28T15:41:00Z Sunderland began tigerishly, with players from midfield and defence supporting two eager front men when they pressed United's defence. Sunderland v Manchester United 2010-05-02T21:34:00Z After City won promotion and tore tigerishly into Premier League life the former chairman, Paul Duffen, told the Guardian that Bartlett had "provided the funding" to get the Tigers up. David Conn: How Russell Bartlett finances Hull City 2010-03-31T06:00:00Z His tremendous strength was no less astounding than his tigerish agility. The Great Mogul For an instant she visualized the gold hair, the gold eyes with their tigerish spots, the alluring chiffoned daintiness of the woman. The Trail of Conflict To her imaginative mind, there was something in his jetlike darkness and his quick, almost tigerish movements that suggested the satanic. The Key to Yesterday The most ferocious utterance of Geronimo never touched the tigerish malignity of that saying. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Paul turned pale, and for the first time the tigerish glare in his eyes intimidated his brother; then silently did he turn to the window. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle And suddenly realising that Phil was the Englishman who had thrown him from his saddle and brought him into disgrace, he drew his sword, and, mad with rage, threw himself upon him with tigerish fury. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War There was something almost tigerish in the flame of Jean’s love at that moment. A Question of Marriage The faces of the servants were tigerish in their menace, but Chandra Dass' face was one of dark, impassive scorn. The Door into Infinity Fear and the memory of Tascela's burning eyes stirred in her, rousing all her tigerish instincts of self-preservation. Red Nails This was a side of him—a tigerish side—of which she had never dreamed, but she did not shrink from it, not one atom. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion There was a tigerish note in the utterance of this horrible paean which might well have made the white spectators shudder. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland The two assassins crouched in their ambush, a tigerish glare in their eyes. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The people, delicately nurtured on delicate fare, exquisitely dressed in painted clothes, rather tigerish at heart but exceedingly punctilious, equally contemptuous and very well bred, must have contrasted too with the Crusaders. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern With one tigerish movement she was over the balustrade and dropping to the floor behind the awful shape. Red Nails The being came at him, its motion a flowing tigerish pounce. The Giants From Outer Space He snarled, tigerishly, and fastened his hands on the Martian's narrow throat. Duel on Syrtis This was why the Christianized Hurons were brushed off the earth by the tigerish and unapproachable Iroquois. Seeds of Pine Frank rushed right across his path, stood his ground with a tigerish gleam and posture, and when his man approached, tackled him low, sending him sprawling to earth, the ball rolling away to one side. A Boy Knight Good style of fellow he looked a little tigerish, but that comes of the Continent. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life An exultant, designing expression came into his 149 eyes, he grinned, his teeth showing tigerishly. The Coming of the Law Riordan flung himself forward with tigerish swiftness, flat down on his belly with one hand barely catching the animal's tail. Duel on Syrtis They pushed through the door, closed and bolted it, then, wheeling tigerishly, surveyed the room. hey saw no one. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Glancing sidewise, they could glimpse the paint-daubs like scattered autumn leaves; and they could feel the tenseness of the tigerish forms, itching to leap with knife and tomahawk. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters "Most puppies are somewhat tigerish nowadays," chimed in Haggerstone, rising to take his leave. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I've read the modern novelists, and I know; all you do is walk about with arms entwined, and write poems of tigerish adoration to your mistresses. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts A short episode of mutual extenuations followed; for had not a flavour of battle—not tigerish, but contentious—pervaded the interview? When Ghost Meets Ghost His great green eyes with their almond-shaped pupils, and his regular velvet stripes, gave him a distant tigerish look that I liked. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 But the Emperor was not there to discuss empire building, much less to face the tigerish light in his lady’s eyes. The Missourian In his tigerish heart was concealed a sort of attachment for his older brother, so that at the thought that he would have to leave him in sickness he was seized by despair. In Desert and Wilderness Gradually the normal veil came to hide their depths and make them enigmatic; and sometimes there was again on his face the hint of something strong and tigerish and cruel lying waiting. The Passing of Ku Sui He warned the minister that Neville had a tigerish nature and would yet be guilty of terrible crime. Tales from Dickens His teeth were bared in a tigerish grin. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country The tigerish rage seized on them every one. The Missourian Then suddenly her expression changed, her lips parted in scorn, and with a savage, tigerish gesture, she tore off her splendors. The Pirate Woman Her blonde hair had become abundant, and, being of peculiar fineness and sheen, lent an attractiveness to features that only a slightly tigerish fulness of cheeks prevented from being almost classical. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The poor people rose by thousands, seized whatever weapons they could get—guns, axes, or even stones of the street—and, led by Defarge and his tigerish wife, set out to avenge their wrongs. Tales from Dickens Brazzier was a man of tigerish temper, and he became infuriated in a few seconds at this repeated baffling of his purpose. Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils Only a tigerish ferocity could lead them, could hold them. The Missourian Then, keeping the fellow ever before him, he suddenly flung him into the air by the waist, shifting holds with tigerish swiftness, and caught him by the ankles as he came down. The Pirate Woman With old hand embracing old hand they sat staring at the rapine of the lightning, the tigerish atrocity that had butchered and mutilated their beloved trees. In a Little Town There is a woman——' Clara caught her breath and looked tigerish. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists He was smiling a sort of tigerish smile. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana When we had turned clear round, what was our amaze and terror to see the swordfish, seemingly more tigerish than ever, thresh and tear and leap at us again. Tales of Fishes With the words she reached him with her subtle, tigerish glide, swiftly, startlingly, and with the dart of a cobra her hand gripped his which held the dagger. The Pirate Woman So surprised was Policeman Burns that he stood with staring eyes, making no move to rescue his mate from the tigerish girl. Rose O'Paradise "You have proved yourself Horace Endicott," she gasped in her rage, burning with hate, mortification, shame, fifty tigerish feelings that could not find expression. The Art of Disappearing If Cesare Borgia had not already married perchance the opportunity would have been offered her to add another great name to those she already bore, for he recognised in this tigerish woman a fitting mate. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) It was then that his lips shut tight and his smile developed something tigerish in its appearance. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies “You’re right there,” he agreed, with a flash of his tigerish ferocity. Brand Blotters A single line of Hugo has more of the spirit of the sea, more of its savagery, its bitter strength, its tigerish leap and bite, than pages of Pierre Loti. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations When Ronald Mason saw that the supposed minister was his enemy, Old King Brady, a tigerish expression leaped to his eyes. The Bradys Beyond Their Depth The Great Swamp Mystery Lookers-on could comprehend the scene in its entirety; and with Leyden's tigerish leap another element came in. Gold Out of Celebes Three minutes later the Rovers, in tigerish suits of yellow and black, trotted out from their dressing rooms. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block Master Lovell, that tigerish Boston teacher, whipped the culprit with birch rods and forced another scholar to hold the sufferer on his back. Customs and Fashions in Old New England In tigerish ferocity the two men came together. Laramie Holds the Range She started, and a tigerish look flashed from her eyes. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. A World is Born A tigerish eagerness filled them; a panic of fear and cupidity spurred them on. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Receiving no answer, he spoke again with a tigerish expansion of his thick lips. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia For just an instant the horse crouched low and waited—then shot into the air with a tigerish bound and fell stiff-legged. The Eagle's Heart “To hell wi’ compromise!” he shouted in a tigerish passion. Clayhanger She roamed about the fields, or crept through the tree-tops with a stealthy tread and a tigerish working of her tail. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales The heavy, aggressive jaw shot forward; the eyes gleamed with a fearless ferocity, and for a moment the man took on an air that was almost tigerish. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance He fixed his large eyes on Landless as he spoke, and his thick lips curled into a tigerish smile. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia The eyes, for instance, had a distinctly tigerish look about them, and the man’s whole personality was strongly suggestive of a feline nature. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru Morgan was drawn to note him particularly among this mainly trifling and innocuous bunch, uneasily impressed by the cold curiosity of his round, tigerish eyes. Trail's End The grin, however, had left his face, and he recoiled a step with such a tigerish expression on his ugly countenance that his assailant ought to have been warned of his danger. Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) A pair of haggard, ill-conditioned young vagabonds were playing at cards, fixing one another in the pauses with a look of tigerish eagerness. The Child of Pleasure She felt a tigerish impulse to choke him. North of Fifty-Three At length the tigerish determination of Bascomb's foe began to drive the big fellow back again. Frank Merriwell's Chums He is a spiritual nightmare, a bad dream born in the savage minds of terror and ignorance and a tigerish lust for blood.... The Red Conspiracy Unnumbered centuries of tribal and international war have developed to high perfection the wolfish and tigerish instincts of humanity. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 But she knew now there was another side to him, a quality that was tigerish, that snarled like a wolf in battle. Steve Yeager He took a tigerish amusement from the old man's plight. The Boss of the Lazy Y He could not have been aware of the tigerish ferocity of his eyes. The Swindler and Other Stories Storri laughed, and a white flash of his teeth showed in a tigerish way. The President A novel Suspecting what I did of this tigerish half-caste, I could almost have found it in my heart to return her savage pleasantries with interest. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Pride, power, imperious will, a scarcely hidden tigerish cruelty, were in every line of her features; yet she remained strikingly handsome, with that rare beauty which drives men mad and laughs mockingly at its victims. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Lieutenant Feraud crouched and bounded with a tigerish, ferocious agility—enough to trouble the stoutest heart. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale The slender figure of the Mexican swayed as though stricken by a blow, the fierce, tigerish passion dying out of her face, her free hand seeking her throat as though choking. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West It is some tigerish instinct he possesses; it makes him kill and destroy, it makes him inflict pain. The Blood Ship There had never been anything in his life so tigerishly delightful as this game of playing on the feelings and fears of the girl whose coming had spoiled the solitudes. The Quickening Battered though he was, the splendid vigor of the man still showed in a certain tigerish litheness that sore, stiff muscles could not conceal. The Big-Town Round-Up He had caught the tigerish cruelty and power-lust in the eyes of Mary's brother, and he knew that for their satisfaction someone must pay very dear. Destiny And I loved it with a strange, desperate, tigerish love. The River and I Indeed, there was something so tigerish about the woman that the Sheriff, in alarm, quickly pushed back his chair. The Girl of the Golden West There was a fascination for him in her tigerish, unscrupulous nature that a good woman could never inspire. The Master Mystery The long lines of shoulder and loin had the flow of tigerish grace. The Big-Town Round-Up There was something of tawny and tigerish splendor about this young man who had sprung with mushroom swiftness from nowhere into the fierce eminence of a financial conqueror. Destiny With the tigerish agility which had served him many a time before Carl leaped for the revolver and smiling with satanic interest leveled it at the man at his feet. Diane of the Green Van Long wanted and at last cornered, Frazer had fought tigerishly and died in his tracks, preferring death to capture. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Turning swiftly with tigerish grace, she bent upon Lane great green eyes whose strange expression he could not fathom. The Day of the Beast He had said love was a hunger, and she would understand some day that it was as tigerish a hunger as drink hunger or any other. Captivity Then slowly his eyes kindled into the tawny gleam of a tigerish light. Destiny He spoke the last words slowly, with a tigerish glare of hate leaping out of his eyes, with deadly menace in every syllable. The Baronet's Bride He gave a tigerish purr of pleasure over the tools, handling them with the fingers of the artist and admiring them with the eyes of the connoisseur. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man In Central Park I have seen the upper lip of a quiet, peaceful man curl back in a tigerish snarl of rage because black folk rode by in a motor car. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Something tigerish surged in him, some gust of jealousy, some arrogant tide in the blood not all clean. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay The new One-man-power stood slender and strong, and tigerish; an incarnation of dominant youth and triumph. Destiny I do not follow with a tigerish thought, Or with the fierce Gætulian lion's quest; So, quickly leave your mother, as you ought, Full ripe to nestle on a husband's breast. Echoes from the Sabine Farm There were, however, moments when to all appearance they hated each other with a tigerish and crouching hatred such as may be found only between two opposing feminine temperaments linked together by the family tie. Leonora He would rather she had turned upon him at once with all her tigerish capacity for hate. The Conqueror Her strong, hard, cruel nature fought tigerishly up again from the horrible blow of my news. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Staples with his tigerish teeth to the crowd fought the two men who carried Burton's orders and who with implacable monosyllables still hammered the market with sledges of mighty resource. Destiny Rachel's pride as a young married woman was tigerishly alert and hungry that evening. The Price of Love A curious, tigerish impulse was taking definite shape in her. A Spinner in the Sun Rose," he said presently and with the brutal and tigerish quality gone from his voice, "you're brave. The Penalty I was like a hard, tigerish soul, tried and tempted day by day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 With an oath he leaped upon his visitor, and fought tigerishly. Destiny And in answer Nap leaned down with a sudden, tigerish movement and laid his hand on hers. The Knave of Diamonds We pray heaven no coming day may be ordained to go against yesterday's record for tigerish cruelty and awful destruction. Friday, the Thirteenth Texas Smith uttered a loud scream of tigerish delight. Overland He leaped at us to the full length of his tether, sailing right into our faces, a fierce, uncowed, tigerish beast. Tales of lonely trails "Out of the depths of my heart I protest to you—" "Bah!" she cried, with a sudden uprising of tigerish fierceness in her eyes, quick and chill as the glitter of her steel. Red Axe This was a man of many subtleties—she knew it instinctively—a man of tigerish temperament, harmless as a kitten in sunshine, merciless as a fiend in storm. The Knave of Diamonds She fainted for fear of his look of dull tigerish cruelty. A Mere Accident It was smothered and then redoubled by the reverberations of the cañon, so that sometimes it seemed the tigerish snarl of a rapid, and sometimes the leonine roar of a cataract. Overland The Penniman cat, Mouser, a tawny, tigerish beast, had leaped to the porch. The Wrong Twin It seemed a miracle that this tigerish fighter should have been suddenly reduced to the helplessness of a child. Alcatraz Her last glimpse of him had been in that violet glare of lightning, inexpressibly terrible, with tigerish eyes that threatened her and snarling lips drawn back. The Knave of Diamonds His wife's tigerish jealousy came to my rescue and forced his attention away from me the moment he possessed himself of my hand. The Woman in White Gil spoke a few words and came on with a certain tigerish assurance of his power, but Jean did not move a muscle. Jean of the Lazy A On the morning of the following day, Sunday, the 14th, Dunedin was horrified by the discovery of a far more terrible crime, tigerish certainly in its apparent ferocity. A Book of Remarkable Criminals She knew also by the sudden compression of his lips and the white line about them that her foreman felt himself to be no match for this tigerish fighter. Alcatraz Then there was something in the great world covertly tigerish, which came to him across the lawn and in the charming air as a waft from the jungle. The Ambassadors All my tigerish blood flushed up in a moment. The Captain of the Polestar Then his mild, handsome face became in a moment malicious and tigerish, and he said with a cruel emphasis: 'If I ever get Urrea into my hands, I will execute him! Remember the Alamo But he was a man of flaming and tigerish temper, and coming to high words with one of them, he caught him by the throat and flung him by accident or design, into the sea. The Wisdom of Father Brown Nearer and nearer he came; his sweaty face shining in the sun; his eyes tigerish; his long body slipping silently over the grass. The Last Trail They had seen the tigerish suddenness with which Terry's temper could flare—they had received an object lesson that morning. Black Jack Only there showed in them now and then a kind of tigerish passionateness, as when I fell off the sea-wall among the boulders and howled so dismally. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories And the doctor walked tigerishly up and down the room. Delia Blanchflower Delacroix, the painter of tigers, was a man of highly nervous temperament, but his cat sketches bring out too strongly the tigerish element to be altogether successful. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Scarcely had the words dropped from his vile lips when Mordaunt moved with tigerish agility. The Last Trail With a sudden, low, tigerish cry, Thorold heaved the end of the table upward between himself and Jimmie Dale—and, quick as a cat, as Jimmie Dale staggered backward, leaped from behind it. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale The former was a brother's affection with the jealousy of a lover added, but the latter a furious, tigerish, Turkish rage. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Not once, since they had been on the Bürgenstock, had she shown any of the tigerish waywardness that he had had glimpses of at first. Three Weeks Voluptuous as she was, tigerish Siena was more consistent than you would think. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett The sight of the hot food and drink roused her to a tigerish activity. The Fallen Leaves To my judgment, she is a woman whose fondness for you might be turned into a tigerish fondness, on very small provocation. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time Then, in the wilderness, with only the soaring buzzard or prowling coyote to look on, the Ranger and the outlaw met to fight with tigerish ferocity to the death. Crooked Trails However wayward and tigerish and undomestic she may be, she then desires to be the acknowledged possession and belonging of the man, even to her own dishonour. Three Weeks Her hands were clenched, and dragging herself away from him, she would resume her tigerish walk. A Mummer's Wife Travellers agree in affirming that of all South Americans the Paraguayans are the most mild-mannered and lethargic; yet when these people are once aroused they fight with tigerish pertinacity. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America For a tigerish flavour does exist in most of these southern towns. Old Calabria He is still nervous, though the painful tigerish restlessness is gone. The Opium Habit There was something terrible and tigerish in her grief. Three Weeks It had eyes that reflected the binnacle light, weirdly, with a frightful, tigerish gleam; but beyond that, I could see nothing with any distinctness. The Ghost Pirates How many thousands of men who have engaged in our tigerish dollar struggle have felt the sinking at heart which came to him then! The Wolf's Long Howl The words of this fire-eyed fellow were bad enough, but the tigerish tenseness of his muscles was still worse. Bull Hunter They fired and they hit, but Dorn sprang on, tigerishly, with his loud and nameless laugh. The Desert of Wheat His voice faded partly out of her consciousness as she fought against a tigerish desire to spring at the throat of the little fat man. Gunman's Reckoning The woman's face grew tigerish, and she nodded rapidly, muttering, ``Ah! yes! In the Quarter Vautrin You should have respectfully handed it back to her; but the gold and the pearls appealed to your tigerish talons. Vautrin The Greek fixed his cold tigerish look upon me and tried out the whip. Venus in Furs She began to feel a savage, tigerish joy in thinking—aye, knowing that it really would belong to her and to her alone soon—very soon. The Moccasin Maker She staggered at the sight of the tigerish rage in the white face she recognized with a gasp. The Head of the House of Coombe He was extremely sensitive, and it would have been a tigerish thing to do to mangle his delicate feelings by the sort of plain speaking that would have been necessary. Victory An Island Tale He is a spiritual nightmare: a bad dream born in savage minds of terror and ignorance and a tigerish lust for blood. God and my Neighbour His blood went cold from time to time when he permitted himself to recall the set, implacable expression in the man's face, and the tigerish strength that marked every repressed movement of his body. The Rose in the Ring He was a strong, vigorous man, but he was helpless in the grasp of this tigerish young fighter from the slopes of the Andes. West Wind Drift Money, of which he had plenty, secured us immunity on the way, and we were in safety over the Swiss frontier, leaving Laporte to eat out his tigerish heart with baffled rage. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Below were the raging waters, and ever nearing him the tigerish shapes, which now Madame was calling to as to a pack of hounds. Tales of Chinatown Such a mixture of tigerish tenderness, servile idolatry, intemperate desire, and craven fear he had never seen delineated on the face of any human being. Ardath A tigerish feeling thrilled Shefford when he saw them on guard there. The Rainbow Trail He put his hand over the tigerish pain that was beginning to reach his heart. Sisters The strange Mexican was standing proudly and looking into the squinting eyes with only a grayness of face and a tigerish litheness to tell what he felt. Bar-20 Days "For you," she said, twirling the blossom between her fingers and gliding toward him with her tigerish step. Tales of Chinatown She had clung to husband and sons with the tigerish tenacity that is the rightful dower of wife and mother; she had thought the world well lost in holding them. The Heart of Rachael His head and chest remained up, and the snarl that came from his throat was tigerish in its ferocity. Baree, Son of Kazan And parents less frankly but no less hungrily, in an almost tigerish way, desire it for their children. At Large Kells gave a slight start, barely perceptible, but the intensity of it, and a fleeting tigerish gleam across his face, impressed Joan with the idea that he felt a fiendish joy. The Border Legion Right and left of the torrent below were jungles in which moved tigerish shapes. Tales of Chinatown So I madly thought as I crouched among the trees—the tigerish wrath within me making the blood beat in my head like a hundred hammer-strokes. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten She sprang up surprised and indignant,—but shrank back visibly as she recognised the intruder, and met the steady tigerish glare of the old man's eyes. The Master-Christian Since when have confectioners become so tigerish in their deportment? Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts "Aye," assented the head groom with a tigerish energy, viciously consuming his bit of straw. Under Two Flags Beautiful as the face was, it had a tigerish look about it at that moment. For the Term of His Natural Life All that was tigerish in her soul rose to the surface; only the thought of the glittering goal stayed the outburst. The Puppet Crown "Welcome, Vernoon," said the Asika through the lips of the mask, which to Alan, notwithstanding the dreadful cruelty of its expression, looked less hateful than the lovely, tigerish face it hid. A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa He struggled to his feet, fell, rose again, and ran, or rather, staggered forward with that tigerish water hissing at his heels. Benita, an African romance There was something strange and inexplicable in her tigerish championship of Turner—and it remains inexplicable even now. The After House "He has quite a tigerish look about him." For the Term of His Natural Life Feraud crouched and bounded with a fierce tigerish agility fit to trouble the stoutest heart. A Set of Six Never while my mind serves me can I forget that yellow, grinning face and those canine fangs—the tigerish, blazing eyes—set in the great, misshapen head upon the tiny, agile body. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper On the other hand, when he thought of her clear, candid eyes; when he remembered her gentle beauty, it did not seem conceivable that behind them could lie hidden the tigerish soul of a murderess. The Bittermeads Mystery His foot slipped as he made an involuntarily backward movement, and he found himself almost prostrate on the slippery weed-grown bank, with those tigerish yellow eyes not very far from his own. Reginald in Russia and other sketches He was a handsome fellow, white-toothed, black-haired, lithely tigerish, with masterful mouth and eyes of steel, so far as one might judge behind the white mask he wore. Bucky O'Connor He was got up with no thought of effect, but the tigerish litheness, the picturesque competency of him, spake louder than costuming. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West It seemed as though she never had known, never could know fear—that only a merciless, tigerish, unbridled fury had her in its thrall. The White Moll He pushed his pug-dog off his lap, dived under the table, appeared again with an old boot and a bottle of blackening, and set to work with tigerish activity. My Lady's Money Her eyes traveled with a tigerish stare over Mercy's costly silk dress. The New Magdalen His eyes, after resting for an instant only on Sir Patrick, turned, little by little; and, brightening slowly, fixed themselves with a hideous, tigerish glare on Anne's face. Man and Wife These remarkable physiognomies brightened up on seeing Mitral, and their eyes gleamed with tigerish curiosity. Bureaucracy The spider is less cruel; the very pig less greedy, gluttonous and foul; the tiger less tigerish; our cousin ape less monkeyish. Paul Kelver, a Novel Jim Girty stopped before him, his yellowish eyes lighted by a tigerish glare, his lips curled in a snarl, and from between them issuing the odor of the fir traders' vile rum. The Spirit of the Border And having commanded, he went aft with his peculiar tigerish leaps to the wheel. The Sea Wolf On her return her eyes had a certain tigerish cast in them when they rested on Mr. Karnegie. Man and Wife The cat leaped down and ripped at a bundle of rags with her tigerish claws, with a sound that it set my teeth on edge to hear. Bleak House |
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