cave-tiger

I had seen the huge brutes in the wild ground, shaggy, horrid, monstrous; more fierce than even the cave-tiger or the cave-bear; most dangerous beast of all that fight with man for dominion of the earth, save only for a few of the greater lizards.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

I always approached the slaying of a cave-tiger with stratagem and infinite caution.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

The houses were perched in trees for the most part, as there they were out of reach of cave-bear and cave-tiger and the other more dangerous beasts.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

By Jove, that'll be a cave-tiger trying to puff down a mammoth.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

There was a feeling in society that, just as the earth itself had settled down to be a habitable globe, and was forgetting its ancient ferocities of earthquake that opened up gulfs between land and land and rended sea from sea, so, too, humanity was losing those wilder energies we surmised in the cave-dweller or the hunters of mastodon, mammoth, and cave-tiger.

The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity George William Russell 1901

The cavern, once a haunt of carnivorous animals, that in the first simple ages of his history had furnished him with a shelter when living, became his burying-place when dead; and thus his bones, and his first rude attempts in pottery and weapon-making, have been found associated with the remains of the cave-hyæna and cave-tiger, with the teeth of the ancient hippopotamus, and the tusks of the primeval elephant.

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

Kirkdale cave alone, parts of the skeletons of from two to three hundred hyænas have been detected, mixed with portions of the osseous framework of the cave-tiger, the cave-bear, the ox, the deer, the mammoth, and the rhinoceros.

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

a sabre-toothed felis (_Machairodus latidens_), sometimes, though incorrectly, referred to as the cave-tiger.

The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

This animal has usually been spoken of as the cave-tiger, but Professor W.  Boyd Dawkins has shown that it was no more closely allied to the tigers than to other felines, and that "the very tempting name of 'sabre-toothed tiger' must therefore be given up as implying a relationship that does not exist.

The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp