This is necessary on account of danger from the spotted hyaena, which is said to be very fierce, and also as a protection against lions and elephants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

The hyaena was a fool, it did not know the weasel surpassed it in subtlety; it thought the meat was tied; but when it tried to draw out its tail, it was fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference

"Well, we fancied that the cry of the hyaena was a recent invention of our own!" said Lousteau, "and here it was already known to the literature of the Empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parisians in the Country] Reference

The hyaena is the spotted kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The little hyaena gazed at him in surprise, saying to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pink Fairy Book] Reference

Spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) is also found in the ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic] Reference

The striped hyaena (hyaena hyaena) is also a resident of this area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands] Reference

The hyaena dared not disobey, and in a few minutes was scalded to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pink Fairy Book] Reference

In the morning they told us that they had seen the hyaena, big enough to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byeways in Palestine] Reference

“You know that a bite from a hyaena means blood – poisoning,” said Kangaroo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

I am gamely predicting that there might be some hyaena-like howling over the deficit!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference

I saw, moving in the doubtful shadows of approaching night, the grave-digging hyaena!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

Mr. Gordon Cumming supposes it to form the connecting link between the wolf and the hyaena.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

But if you smile too constantly, the smile is apt to get fixed like the smile of the hyaena.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

The local subspecies of striped hyena (hyaena hyaena barbara, DD) may also occur in the ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe] Reference

"That is a lesson to the hyaena not to scold us and get us into trouble," said the jackal, as he went home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference

The stripped hyena (hyaena hyaena) and the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) are found in the major hills of Baluchistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baluchistan xeric woodlands] Reference

Abi-Said & Abi-Said (2007) report that striped hyaenas (hyaena hyaena syriaca) remain widely distributed in Lebanon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

We saw no animals: here and there appeared the trail of a hyaena, the only larger carnivor that now haunts the mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

One unfortunate hyaena got stuck in mud: the lions caught it, pinned it down, and one of the lions bit hard into its neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finally: big cat kills uncensored and uncut] Reference

"Tell me what it is," said the hyaena, "and I will at once despatch all these animals to look for it and it will surely be found.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference

Distribution of the Striped hyaena (hyaena hyaena syriaca Matius, 1882) (Carnivora: Hyaenidae) in urban and rural areas of Lebanon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

After I got to bed, one of our people shot at a hyaena, and the villagers shouted from the roofs of their houses to know if we were attacked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byeways in Palestine] Reference

Besides, strive as you may, you can never secure an altogether unexceptionable individual -- one who will "go the whole hyaena," and be at the same time the entire jackal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference

A hyaena had carried it into the grass and dropped it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference

A hyaena or jackal has started laughing outside -- phew!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference

Also it is far too big to be a hyaena -- unless it is an entirely new species.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of El Dorado] Reference

What got the heart racing more that that, was a hyaena calling right outside the tent.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Oh, it yelled and howled and screached like a wounded hyaena, till my ears fairly cracked agin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete] Reference

Looks to me more like a hyaena -- though of course I know there are no such creatures in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of El Dorado] Reference

Goethe cared little for him; Voltaire laughed at him; Nietzsche called him "an hyaena poetizing among the tombs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

"Pir-i-Kaftár," the old she-hyaena, and believe that he wanders about the deserts of Arabia in perpetual rut which the males must satisfy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference