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n. A sabre-toothed tiger
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Sabre-Tooth is the title of an action-adventure novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1966, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for the comic strip of the title. It was the second novel to feature the character, though technically it was the first original novel as the preceding volume was a novelisation of a movie screenplay.
This story introduces the American millionaire John Dall, who reappears in many of the following books.
Usage examples of "sabre-tooth".
Tiny quantities of fossil ivory from prehistoric elephants, mastodons, and sabre-toothed tigers (smilodons) are also encountered occasionally.
A sabre-toothed tiger, the kind that had passed from the surface of the earth a million years ago.
So i kept on climbing in the dark and the sabre-toothed tiger kept on shaking me like a terrier shaking a rat and i knew that my only hope was to reach the light above, but i couldn't see any light.
In the warm past hippopotami had wallowed through a lush sub-tropical vegetation, and a tremendous tiger with fangs like sabres, the sabre-toothed tiger, had hunted its prey where now the journalists of Fleet Street go to and fro.
Captain Jensen straightened, smiled his magnificent sabre-toothed tiger's smile and strode forward to greet them, his hand outstretched.
I wondered of the struggles of my own world as well as on Gor, struggles which over millenia had shaped the blood and inmost being of my species, perhaps conflicts over tunnels in cliffs to be fought with the savage cave bear, long dangerous weeks spent hunting the same game as the sabre-toothed tiger, perhaps years spent protecting one's mate and brood from the depredations of carnivores and the raids of one's fellow creatures.
Horses evolved, as did true cats (such as the famous sabre-toothed tiger).
Abruptly the skin on his back prickled into bumps, as if a goose had just walked over his grave, and although he knew it was only a car somewhere on the other side - sound carried a long way up here on still winter nights - his first thought was that something prehistoric had awakened and had tracked its prey to earth: a great wolf, or perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger.
Where we were standing the surface was a collection of rounded chunks of black lava interspersed with irregular lumps which looked like pats of cow-dung, big spheroidal 'bombs' deeply embedded, and curiously-shaped pieces shaped like the fangs of an extinct sabre-toothed tiger.
A single man stood no chance against the mammoth, the cave bear, the woolly rhinoceros, the giant red deer and the sabre-toothed tiger.
Not, mind you, that I've ever heard of sabre-toothed tigers meeting up with wolves but you take my point, I hope.
On the last expedition a pride of sabre-tooths had attacked a working party, killing three Vagars and dragging off a fourth.
Even sabre-tooths generally avoided the mammoths - unless they could isolate a stray.
Surrounded by triple fences of razor wire and armed guards patrolling with full-sized sabre-tooths, the complex was a labyrinth of aluminium-clad windowless buildings and concrete bunkers interspersed with electrical substations and large ventilation ducts.
The million years of isolation at the bottom of the sea, the insanity of time there, while the skies cleared of reptile-birds, the swamps dried on the continental lands, the sloths and sabre-tooths had their day and sank in tar pits, and men ran like white ants upon the hills.