"Black bear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he spoke the great rough furry body of an enormous black bear came into sight, and without a moment's hesitation walked right out along the ...
— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn
... coming from him who, by those who did not know him, had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal[1033], while we who were sitting around could hardly stifle laughter, produced a very ludicrous effect. Silence having ensued, he proceeded: 'We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.' Mr. Gibbon muttered, in a low tone of voice. 'I should not like to trust myself with you.' This piece of sarcastick pleasantry was a prudent resolution, if applied to ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... a hunter we may mention some of the stuffed animals in the hall of his mother's house, all of which have fallen to our hero: Black Bucks, Ravine Deer, Gnu, Inyala, Eland, Jackal, Black Bear, Hippopotamus (a huge skull), Lion, Tiger, ...
— The Story of Baden-Powell - 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' • Harold Begbie
... "open good" before he had done talking. He was upon his feet, the big, swaying body oddly like a clumsy black bear's, his big hands lifted in front of him. And then he threw himself forward, close to two hundred and fifty pounds of brawn and bone hurled like a boulder from a catapult. Some one had turned up the lantern wick. The black head and the red head from which the hat had dropped came together, there ...
— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory
... stomach for?" said the stranger. Then Little White Bear knew right away what he had done. The black things he thought were Jim Raven and his crowd were not those people at all, but they were Little Black Bear's feet sticking up over the hill, as he rolled around on the snow, having a frolic ...
— Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends • Roy J. Snell
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