tiger-cat

Being alone in the room with this man seemed much the same as if I were locked in a cage with a tiger-cat.

CHAPTER XIV 2010

All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a green cap; he was a life convict.

Les Miserables 2008

Such were the exclamations, while the Highlander, starting from the ground, all his coldness and caution lost in frantic rage, sprung at his antagonist with the fury, the activity, and the vindictive purpose of an incensed tiger-cat.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Or the tiger-cat? then, lay people think that everything is right for side of lions, but not quite.

Animal Planet: Recognizing the Boundaries 2008

“Yesterday the captain of five hundred men, the bravest in France — the bravest, that is, who breathe mortal air — and I am here without a glimpse of light, to direct me how to avoid the corner in which lies a wild tiger-cat, prompt to spring upon and to devour me.”

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Quick and fierce as a tiger-cat, the girl sprang on the ruffian, and with the intense strength of passion, clasped him in her arms, and leaped with him from the narrow ledge into the abyss below.

Westward Ho! 2007

Nakari leaped like a tiger-cat to her feet, her eyes flaming now with passionate fury.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

Anyhow, we were at the mercy of a tiger-cat of a woman who might let loose her temper at any time and lay the police on to us, without thinking twice about it.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

Among these are the tiger, leopard, a tiger-cat, civet, and otter; while out of the twenty genera of Malayan

The Malay Archipelago 2004

He had placed himself nearer to the girl than she seemed to relish, though her native spirit of mountain intrepidity contended with the feeling of simple awe which her countenance expressed as she gazed upon the tiger-cat before her.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003