What is "tigerlike"

Usage examples of "tigerlike".

But the Scottish knight, who had stood the lion-anger of Richard, was unappalled at the tigerlike mood of the chafed Saracen.

Doyle glanced from the machines to the troops, then back to the cluster of angry felines, one of the tigerlike creatures, his expression that of a man halfway through a string of profanity, balled one forepaw into a fist, and slammed it savagely into the other forepaw.

Pictures showed grown tigerlike Marcats upright on their hind legs, strolling casually along over rolling fields and hills, obviously deep in conversation, as younger Marcats gamboled and played around them on all fours, bounded up trees, and chased rabbit-like creatures that went twenty feet at a bound.

Marcat winced, and Doyle had a mental picture of a dejected tigerlike figure with its head in its paws.

A large, somewhat tigerlike carnivore came out of the cabin in one blur, knocked the Pioneer flat, seized him in its jaws, and sprang behind another cabin.

George, whose meek nature was consistent with his expertise in Sara Teasdale, fought the onset of his coma with uncharacteristically tigerlike strength.

With his large, green, almond-shaped eyes, and his symmetrical stripes, there was something tigerlike about him that pleased me.

Colorado raged gloriously below the cliffsides, leaping and frothing in great silted billows and surges, flinging rocks and driftwood with tigerlike abandon.

From a dense clump of bushes at the base of the mesa came now a quick and savage killer, long and low-slung, with a compact, powerful tigerlike body and two astounding gleaming fangs almost a foot in length.

The desert was her home, and the price she had paid for growing up a rebellious desert child was the loss of her femininity to a tigerlike constitution.

After a few minutes of this hypnotic watching, he would find the student least prepared for danger, and if the victim made even the feeblest gesture of soliciting the help of his neighbors, Auerbach would spring tigerlike and appear suddenly beside the prey, examining his desk, book, hands.

Another time, it was a smaller man with fine hands and feet, pacing tigerlike by the window.

Swinging the automatic that he had gained from Harry Vincent, the bearded fighter sprang upon The Shadow with a tigerlike roar.

The animal had risen on the window sill and was roaming tigerlike among the papers.

Savagely and without provocation, one of the tigerlike demons turned on the other.