Both kinds I call solitary instances, or ferine, to borrow a term from astronomers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

When the riser halted and the portal reopened, she was greeted by a vista of tangled alien rain forest, wondrous aromas, and ferine screeching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diuturnity's Dawn]

In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun-Brand] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

It was ferine and spectral, and so tremendously violent, that the long attorney, expecting nothing of the sort, was thrown out of his balance against the chimneypiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wylder's Hand] Reference

The inhabitants of this island, and perhaps of all the low ones, are of a much darker colour than those of the higher islands, and seem to be of a more ferine disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference

The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura -- a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

His hot breath, strong with the odor of garlic, fanned our hero's cheek, while his lips, distended into a ferocious and ferine grin, displayed his sharp teeth shining in the candlelight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

The sort of ferine reputation which he had acquired for himself abroad prevented numbers, of course, of his countrymen, whom he would have most cordially welcomed, from seeking his acquaintance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

I take it, therefore, that this fighting with beasts is a figurative expression, that the beasts intended were men of a fierce and ferine disposition, and that this refers to the passage above cited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

His great wolf williamsburg esperantido indentation sinuousness, unrecoverable confidingly balanoposthitis and nonvisual guiltlessness, mahdist, appointment and rambunctious synchroflash, in no ferine primula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The material used, whether brute or human, is subjected to careful selection and discipline, in order to secure and accentuate certain aptitudes and propensities which are characteristic of the ferine state, and which tend to obsolescence under domestication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

In order that such a change may be effected is it not necessary that the ferine principle of the panther and the owl, or the noxious principle of the bramble and the nettle, be first taken away, and thereby the truly human and innocent principle be implanted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference

There is always some row or other previously to all our publications: it should seem that, on approximating, we can never quite get over the natural antipathy of author and bookseller, and that more particularly the ferine nature of the latter must break forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

Diabolic Bridges which Dante would have condemned none but lost souls to climb, or cross; -- all this love of impending mountains, coiled thunder-clouds, and dangerous sea, being joined in us with a sulky, almost ferine, love of retreat in valleys of Charmettes, gulfs of.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Diabolic Bridges which Dante would have condemned none but lost souls to climb, or cross; -- all this love of impending mountains, coiled thunder-clouds, and dangerous sea, being joined in us with a sulky, almost ferine, love of retreat in valleys of Charmettes, gulphs of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference

The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura -- a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without a corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions] Reference

A corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

Carl looked down into the squad's ferine faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Other Worlds]

'tee, presented a bill rnakingapproji nations ferine support of the Military Bstabhsbmeni of the United States, for tbe rear one thousand eight hundred and seven; which was read twice, and committed to a Committee of the - Whole on Monday next.    From Wordnik.com.  [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference

For printing extra copies of the report of the state Report relative l) oard of health relative to the manufacture and sale of riae'anTbut "oleomargarine and butterine, a sum not exceeding tifty ferine. dollars, as authorized by chapter seventy-two of the resolves of the present year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Wakens the ferine strain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

The gold-delirium, the ferine strife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference

Stampano alcuni il suol di ferine orme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

Wakens the ferine strain. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Wild] Reference

And here, till the pressing want of food drove me back, I remained: for more and more the earth over-grows me, wooes me, assimilates me; so that I ask myself this question: 'Must I not, in time, cease to be a man, and become a small earth, precisely her copy, extravagantly weird and fierce, half-demoniac, half-ferine, wholly mystic -- morose and turbulent -- fitful, and deranged, and sad -- like her?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purple Cloud] Reference