ursine

• Clara was torn betwixt filial piety toward a father who could be ursine to a miserable degree, and a lover who was not only eating his heart out in loneliness, but who needed her personality to complete his creative powers in music. —  The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
• Is not this an ursine man-of-genius, in some sort, as we once defined him? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• Dare any henchman of ours venture to go, with honey-cakes, with pattings and cajoleries, and slip the imperial muzzle well round the snout of that rugged ursine animal? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• But the feline-ursine Tran were clad in thick fur. —  The Deluge Drivers
• "Where Jenkins had been all this while, -- steadfastly navigating to and fro, steadfastly eating tough junk with a wetting of rum; not thinking too much of past labors, yet privately 'always keeping his lost Ear in cotton' (with a kind of ursine piety, or other dumb feeling), -- no mortal now knows. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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