21 Verbs to Use for the Word tigresses

I expected two friends, officers from Calcutta, that very day, and wished not to kill the tigress but to keep her for our combined shooting next day.

Fire at and wound the tigress.

Going on further for two days to the east, they came to the place where the Bodhisattva threw down his body to feed a starving tigress.

We promised the coolies double pay if they roused the tigress to flight.

I once contemplated in the jungle of Johore an old tigress just trapped, but marked and wounded by the pit and the blows of her captors.

We could plainly see, that with only one elephant we could never dislodge the tigress, so making the coolies beat up the patch in lines, we shot several pig and a hog-deer, and adjourned for something to eat by the bank of the creek.

Why, ferocious as our Innovator is, he would just as soon drag a tigress from her's!

Then the jackal went back to the tiger's den and told the tigress that her husband had been caught by the Raja and thrown into prison for interfering with his sipahi.

In the morning I was gratified beyond expression to find a fine tigress, measuring 8 feet 3 inches, had been brought in, the result of my lucky night shot; the marks of a large tiger were found about the spot, and we determined to beat up for him, and if possible secure his skin, as we already had that of his consort.

The elephant was forced again into the nurkool very much against his will, and the mahout was promised a reward if we got the tigress.

The tigress followed in pursuit, but the aged couple hid the prince and assured the tigress that he had not been seen; so the tigress returned disappointed.

Don't you know if my father were here he would crush you to the earth?" "Not so fast, my lovely tigress," said Bastine, "your father knew what he was doing when he placed you in my charge.

We had been trying to oust the tigress for over four hours, but she was as wise as she was savage, and refused to become a mark for our bullets in the open.

His congratulations were profuse, and no doubt sincere, and after padding the tigress, we hied to the welcome shelter of one of the village houses, where we discussed a hearty and substantial tiffin.

The beaters would prevent the tigress from turning back beyond the village, and it was at least possible that he would get a shot at her as she burst from the jungle and crossed the field to the heavier thickets beyond.

We were offered plantains, milk, and chupatties, and an old patriarch came out leaning on his staff, to revile and abuse the tigress.

I have seen several shot with a single bullet from a smooth-bore, and on one occasion, George tells me he saw a tigress killed with a single smooth-bore bullet at over a hundred yards.

I have, however, shot a tigress with a full-grown cubthe hunt described in the last chapter is an instanceand on several occasions, my friend George has shot the mother with three or four full-grown cubs in attendance.

The bullet was a ricochet, and struck the tigress below the chest, and travelled towards the heart, but without touching it.

On the way home we bagged a florican and a very fine mallard, and reached the camp utterly fagged, to find our worthy magistrate very much recovered, and glad to congratulate us on our having bagged the tigress.

Hermia must gothis very dayand heto beard their pretty tigress.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  tigresses