His uniform on one side was torn almost into rags, and his turban was all awry, as if he had lost it in a scuffle and hadn't spared time to rewind it properlya sure sign of desperate haste; for a male tiger in the spring-time is no more careful of his whiskers than a Sikh is of the thirty yards of cloth he winds around his head.

"An important festival in our calendar was now approaching, and preparations were made to celebrate it in various modes, and, amongst others, by a fight between a royal tiger and an elephant.

She sprang back and glared at him like a little, fierce tiger.

The Indians, like hungry tigers, pursued the soldiers and brought them down with rifle or tomahawk.

She sprang back and glared at him like a little, fierce tiger.

Ninety years ago, being a hunter, it was my hap to fall into the jaws of an enormous tiger, who bore me off to his cavern.

Incidents connected with wounded tigers.

Sorak and the clouded tiger.

It is there, O thou tiger among men, that I heard that Salwa was coursing on his car of precious metals near the ocean, and I followed in his pursuit.

He smiled at their wonderment and was about to chide them gently when they continued: "An immense tiger has just slain one of our cows and dragged it into that very jungle from which Your Honor has emerged."

Even in the last desperate case, a cunning old tiger will often make a feint, or sham rush, or pretended charge, when his whole object is flight.

They hear of bootlegging and blind tigers among certain foreign groups.

" "Donnegan, Donnegan, Donnegan!" burst out Lord Nick, and though he did not raise the pitch of his voice, he allowed its volume to swell softly so that it filled the room like the humming of a great, angry tiger.

The witnesses, therefore, advised the Bonze to ascertain the residences of the most ferocious tigers in his diocese, and to wait upon them personally, in the hope of thus discovering what he sought.

Quicker than the dart of the python, the fierce onset of the kingly tiger, the sudden flash of the forked and quivering lightning, was the grasp made at the outstretched arm by the practised Brahmin.

The news of the recapture of the runaway tiger had preceded him; and, as was natural, the story was exaggerated to an absurd degree.

Warwick knew at once that Little Shikara was not yet aware of the presence of the tiger fifty feet distant in the shadows.

But when the rains abate they begin to gradually descend; and when the great "hoars" or fenlands dry up at the approach of the cold season, numerous tigers take up their winter haunts in the patches of jungle, which grow here and there in the marsh lands, and in the forests which often surround or separate the tea gardens.

I had thought that the men under General Herkimer's command fought bravely after the cowards were weeded out, and those who were left understood that, but for the mutiny in camp, the ambush would not have been successful; but now they seemed like veritable tigers as the Tories came into the battle.

Many a poor sailor or diver has been torn to pieces and devoured by these ravenous tigers of the deep.

Wolves, bears, and mighty tigers bend, And strive who most shall condescend.

They "vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers," as Troilus knew.

The grand tiger was also sick, and expected in no short time to exchange this transitory world for another or none.

On bold Arabian steeds With decent pride they sit, that fearless hear The lion's dreadful roar; and down the rock 460 Swift-shooting plunge, or o'er the mountain's ridge Stretching along, the greedy tiger leave Panting behind.

At the moment there was the grim tiger in their eyes and from the soft paw the swift protrusion of the cruel claw.