"Tigerish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nearer, noiselessly, like a cat. His lips began to smile. He could not have been aware of the tigerish ferocity ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... Bradley ran up the sidewalk and out on the veranda near Westerfelt. He had a warning on his lips, but seeing the critical situation he said nothing. A white, tigerish look came into the face of Westerfelt. The cords of his neck tightened as he leaned slowly towards Wambush. He was ...
— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben
... moment glaring at the threatening man. His teeth were bared in a tigerish grin. He was the picture of ferocity, but, as Jim took a step toward him, his dark face white with passion, he dropped back and finally made for ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... Acropolis, where first they met. Anyhow his fixed gaze now shows that he has passed in thought at least beyond the hell around him. Not far behind should be ranged groups of haggard men, with tattered clothes and dulled or tigerish eyes, some dignified, some broken down by grief; while here and there newly fallen corpses, and in one hideous corner a great heap of abandoned dead, should point the ghastly words of Thucydides: [Greek: ton nekron homou ep ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... of both these mistresses, the effects they produced upon him were in no wise related to each other. The former was a brother's affection with the jealousy of a lover added, but the latter a furious, tigerish, Turkish rage. When told of the former's marriage, in his indignation and heroic fury he swore never more to see a perfidious girl. A slightly neurotic vein of prolonged ephebeitis pervades much of ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall |
