"Tigerish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the worse conspirator for that. And why, worthy Senors, should you make a difference between him and one other I see in company? Mother of God! they are both in the same boat!" He fixed his large eyes on Landless as he spoke, and his thick lips curled into a tigerish smile. ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... he thought of her clear, candid eyes; when he remembered her gentle beauty, it did not seem conceivable that behind them could lie hidden the tigerish soul ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... (I fear) had some of the faults of the pirates as well as the virtues of the sailor, was bringing home three Spanish gentlemen in honourable captivity, intending to escort them to Elizabeth's court. But he was a man of flaming and tigerish temper, and coming to high words with one of them, he caught him by the throat and flung him by accident or design, into the sea. A second Spaniard, who was the brother of the first, instantly drew his sword ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... pressed her shoulder hard against the ledge that had trapped her, and watched him in an agony of fear. One felt that she did, though one could not see her face. Gil spoke a few words and came on with a certain tigerish assurance of his power, but Jean did not move a muscle. She had backed as far away from him as she could get. She was not the kind to weep and plead with him. She just waited; and one felt that she was keyed up to the supreme moment of ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... Henchard's tigerish affection for the younger man, his constant liking to have Farfrae near him, now and then resulted in a tendency to domineer, which, however, was checked in a moment when Donald exhibited marks of real offence. One day, looking down on their figures from on high, she ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... of the Mexican swayed as though stricken by a blow, the fierce, tigerish passion dying out of her face, her free hand seeking ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... of the dame's school—a smart tapping on the head with a heavy thimble—to belaboring with a heavy walnut stick or oaken ruler. Master Lovell, that tigerish Boston teacher, whipped the culprit with birch rods and forced another scholar to hold the sufferer on his back. Other schoolmasters whipped on the soles of the feet, and one teacher roared out, "Oh the Caitiffs! it is good for them." Not only were children whipped, but ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... with a tigerish pant as she swung on her heels and strode away to the end of the verandah, where she stood for a moment staring up at ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott
... upon to sell things which she thought no customers would buy. Somebody in power had put her in this position, out of spite, to get her into trouble. There was another woman in the case. There must be jealousy. This tigerish Judith was suffering as keenly as a human creature could suffer, and all because of some blouses, some sashes, and ladies' fancy neckwear, which certainly had an unattractive appearance as they lay on the counters in ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson |
