25 examples of tigerish in sentences

But if you want to help me, Nelly" His voice faded partly out of her consciousness as she fought against a tigerish desire to spring at the throat of the little fat man.

This Mr. Dodge, I suppose you know, has been a passenger with me once or twice?" "I have heard as muchthey say he was tigerish in the fight with the niggersquite an out-and-outer.

But Hepson, watching every chance with tigerish eyes, was yet cool-headed, as a football general should be.

The words of this fire-eyed fellow were bad enough, but the tigerish tenseness of his muscles was still worse.

So did the Turks, who, seeing the helplessness of their late tigerish opponent, began snatching back the land they had ceded to Bulgaria.

How many thousands of men who have engaged in our tigerish dollar struggle have felt the sinking at heart which came to him then!

" "Yes," I said, "it wasa tigerish steam-roller.

She knew also by the sudden compression of his lips and the white line about them that her foreman felt himself to be no match for this tigerish fighter.

It seemed a miracle that this tigerish fighter should have been suddenly reduced to the helplessness of a child.

She could not understand that tigerish onslaught of Monohan's.

Jeneka, crushed in spirit and shamed at the brazen performance of her sister, began a plaintive conjecture as to "what people would say," when Kalora turned upon her such a tigerish glance that she fairly ran for her apartment, although she was too corpulent for actual sprinting.

" Dick stood upright by Fielding's side, listening to the taunting words with a face that was indeed like a death-masksave for the eyes that glowed vividly, terribly, with something of a tigerish glare.

Ne'er dream of kissing me: alike I shun Your face, your language, and your tigerish fun.

The Penniman cat, Mouser, a tawny, tigerish beast, had leaped to the porch.

She fainted for fear of his look of dull tigerish cruelty.

Sheriff Boyd decoyed him into town, skilfully avoiding any rousing of his tigerish disposition, and is now making a blacksmith of himor was until yesterday, when he paroled him to Miss Virginia Royall, the ward of the Reverend Thorndyke.

she cried, with a sudden uprising of tigerish fierceness in her eyes, quick and chill as the glitter of her steel.

He leaped at us to the full length of his tether, sailing right into our faces, a fierce, uncowed, tigerish beast.

Texas Smith uttered a loud scream of tigerish delight.

It was smothered and then redoubled by the reverberations of the cañon, so that sometimes it seemed the tigerish snarl of a rapid, and sometimes the leonine roar of a cataract.

We pray heaven no coming day may be ordained to go against yesterday's record for tigerish cruelty and awful destruction.

This was a man of many subtletiesshe knew it instinctivelya man of tigerish temperament, harmless as a kitten in sunshine, merciless as a fiend in storm.

And in answer Nap leaned down with a sudden, tigerish movement and laid his hand on hers.

His tigerish eyes gazed into hers.

Her last glimpse of him had been in that violet glare of lightning, inexpressibly terrible, with tigerish eyes that threatened her and snarling lips drawn back.

25 examples of  tigerish  in sentences