A tigerish fury. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She snatched him into her arms, and held him with a kind of tigerish ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
He sank into a tigerish crouch - the torch halted. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour Of The Dragon]
Taramis met that tigerish glare without flinching. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
With tigerish speed, he raced down among the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
The woman is still there, nothing tigerish abouther. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interviews:] Reference
Everything about him was tigerish, elemental, untamed. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Lady Portia Fanning's mouth gaped in a tigerish smile. From Wordnik.com. [Best Detective Stories]
She started, and a tigerish look flashed from her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference
His tigerish leap smashed one man into the farther wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Way Home]
Then with a tigerish bound Conan was through the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquering Sword of Conan]
A black woman she was, young and of a tigerish comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
With tigerish swiftness, he charged the soldier to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
By the time it got to “tigerish,” the point had been made. From Wordnik.com. [Time Takes A Huey: Editor Kelly Rises, Successor Chosen] Reference
His mail could not conceal his hard lines of tigerish strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
I was like a hard, tigerish soul, tried and tempted day by day. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
His tigerish spirit had not dwindled; his ambitions had not lessened. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
He is still nervous, though the painful tigerish restlessness is gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Beautiful as the face was, it had a tigerish look about it at that moment. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
In person, as in her book, she is more identifiably maternal than tigerish. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Summers vs. the Tiger Mom] Reference
Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. From Wordnik.com. [A World is Born] Reference
And having commanded, he went aft with his peculiar tigerish leaps to the wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
His tigerish rush and darting blades left a trail of writhing figures behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
Over the past eight years, Gujarat's GDP has grown at a tigerish double digit rate. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly] Reference
Their weapons aimed past her, covering Flandry, who strolled with a tigerish leisure. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
But they could not stand against these maddened giants, led by the tigerish barbarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
That sinister wall of spectators had tigerish eyes, red with wine, gleaming with hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But the tigerish suppleness of limb and the dangerous aspect of feature were not altered. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
But he was still somewhat off-balance when Hugh launched himself upon him in a tigerish leap. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
She almost matched his height, her gait was tigerish, she was herself weaponed and diademmed. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
All the while Corley paced the quarterdeck, his steps quick and tigerish, and his temper short. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
Conan sprang to meet him, and all his tigerish strength went into the arm that swung the sword. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
Their cruel tigerish eyes and ugly mouths made the boys shudder as they looked at the creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder] Reference
The man on the couch with one tigerish movement leaped erect and a revolver gleamed in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
Gigantic bird talons dug up the coralite; tigerish fangs chewed up hunks of ground and spit it out. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Labyrinth]
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