Today, the hyena is the most common carnivore in Africa. From Wordnik.com. [A Kind Word For Fisi*] Reference
Ok, the hyena is my favorite and I wish I could see him do it in action!. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday Thirteen (No 2)] Reference
One hyena is biting your tail while another is biting your foreleg. From Wordnik.com. [Axelrod slams Romney] Reference
This is so true, I say that literally all the time to my cat. (thanks for the pointer, Ben!) hyena from the bee. From Wordnik.com. [You’re A Kitty! : #comments] Reference
(link) its like being angry at a hungry hyena, the hyena is just doing what comes naturally. From Wordnik.com. [A roundup of the NEA propaganda scandal. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
The main animal that preys upon the hyena is the lion. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They never got hold of one, for the hyena is a coward. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
It is known, too, that the hyena is a "terrier" -- a burrowing animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family] Reference
One of the most characteristic marks of the hyena is the inequality in the development of its limbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family] Reference
Farra is known as the hyena - fluffy, ginger splodged coat with a big front end and is known to scavenge. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The spotted hyena, which is the largest member of the hyena family, is appropriately named the laughing hyena. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Bradley sat down unconscious of the fact that he had been insulted by being called a hyena-man, an appellation of contempt in Caspak. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Time's Abyss] Reference
The hyena is Africa's Minister of Death. From Wordnik.com. [A Kind Word For Fisi*] Reference
And woe to the wolf or hyena when the mother returns!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
The thieves of the jungle are the jackal and the hyena. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
According to my mind the only good hyena is a dead hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Chums of the Camp Fire] Reference
Like a screaming primal hyena he wanted Sherry Jane's love. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Destruction In A '67 El Dorado] Reference
She was sitting one row behind me and laughing like a hyena. From Wordnik.com. ['Jackass' Nation] Reference
The tenor rose to his feet with the howl of an anguished hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
One heard from the depths of the jungle the tittering of a hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
With its hyena head pointed toward the Imperial Capitol, the brazen. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
The black scoundrel gave out a shrill laugh like that of a hyena, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
Bakahenzie clutched his belly and began to howl like a hyena at the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Sir John Lubbock, in his Prehistoric Times, page 293, says the cave-hyena. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference
As he emerged the captain was on his back with all the ferocity of a hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
And besides, I'll hunt you down and kill you like a slavering hyena if you don't. From Wordnik.com. [Raise Really High The Roofbeam, Gassbag] Reference
You know they belong to the dog family, just as the wolf and jackal and hyena do. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats] Reference
For two days he paced his cell with the restless, incessant tread of a caged hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
My husband, who went for a climb, came to pretty close quarters with a striped hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Besides bones of the hyena, we have also those of the lion, tiger, bear, and reindeer. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The effect was a little unsettling, as if a hippopotamus had begun to laugh like a hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
Then something laughed terribly -- rocking, hollow laughter -- it might have been a hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
She looked very innocent and beautiful as she lay there under the gaze of that human hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
When he scored the hit, he jumped for joy like a hyena getting away with somebody else's kill. From Wordnik.com. [Taunting the Tiger] Reference
Or we would see in the distance a hyena or jackal prowling about in search of more recent dead. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
The South African panther is a cowardly animal, and, like the hyena, flies from the face of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827] Reference
She had seen a few jackals, and once a hyena lumbered away clumsily among some rocks as she passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
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