Usage examples (26)

• Both kinds I call solitary instances, or ferine, to borrow a term from astronomers.
• When the riser halted and the portal reopened, she was greeted by a vista of tangled alien rain forest, wondrous aromas, and ferine screeching.
• In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.
• This does not mean that the result in either case is an all around and consistent rehabilitation of the ferine or barbarian habit of mind and body.