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"Tigerish" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was much modified, while the bones no longer showed through her dress. 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. This feline expression of jaws became more marked when she smiled, when a rather large mouth displayed two rows of formidable teeth. The pussy-cat and monkey-faces ...

— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray

... soldiers of fortune. They were pirates and highwaymen. They were gold hunters, gamblers, swindlers. They were fugitives from the noose, from the garrote, from the guillotine. But they were all right willing desperadoes. And there was not a softened feature on a man of the troop. Only a tigerish ferocity could lead them, ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... 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 ...

— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... and his gait was the gait of an Indian. There was nothing to give any other impression to the casual observer. But Seth was very intent, and he saw the color of the man's face. It was then that his lips shut tight and his smile developed something tigerish ...

— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum

Words linked to "Tigerish" : merciless, unmerciful