Rapacious

Usage examples of wolfish.

The Atarite Court in Lunn or the wolfish Pelagan captains across the Angromain Channel?

He had noticed that di Strozza, Kai Shah, a lean Syrian scribe named Musa bin Daoud, and the wolfish Lur, Kadra Muhammad, stayed close to each other, while Nadir Tous had his own following among the lesser bandits, wild ruffians, mostly Persians and Armenians, and Kojar Mirza was surrounded by a number of even wilder mountain Kurds.

It was all eyes - wolfish and mocking - and the rugose insect-like head dissolved at the top to a thin stream of mist which curled putridly about and finally vanished up the chimney.

Edge thanked her sincerely and ate his breakfast with wolfish appetite, though it was only a small carp and as tasteless and textureless as all river carp.

Now he tucked a long Deckard rifle under his left arm and whistled to a wolfish Seizer hound.

The three bandits, Alexandre, Richard, and Alfred, who had been crouching low, sprang forward and threw themselves upon Madame Angelin with such hungry, wolfish violence that she was thrown to the ground.

It put a hand against its back and straightened itself and grinned at him feverishly, teeth and eyes wolfish white in the grey seams of the face.

Its shaggy head grew more bristly, its mouth stretching snoutlike, black lips peeling back over sharp, wolfish jaws.

With a wolfish grin, Chief Djeri drew both saber and dirk and, in the twinkling of an eye, Sami of Kahrtuh, Bili of Esmith, and Chuk of Djahnsun had their own steel out and were ranged beside him.

I raise my head and see a red illuminated exit sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long spears, cavewomen wearing strategically modest skins, wolfish dogs.

Up there among those hills lurked thousands of wolfish figures out of whose hearts and souls all emotion and hope had been scourged except a frenzied hate for their conquerors, a mad lust for vengeance.

Crouching on the firing step, he drove the blood-clotted butt into these wolfish faces until a rabid-eyed giant grappled him and bore him back and over.

It was a man's face after all and not a skull, but there was that which was wolfish about it, an almost freakish longness of jaws and ears.

He turned from Anselme, and began to chew some roots of the garlic-like plant, which he had doubtless collected to make possible those operations which he could hardly have carried on in wolfish form.

A misjudged order, one mistiming, a swing of the tide-race, and Trout would be jammed against the sand-bars and wolfish breakers.