Tigery

Well, if not, maybe someday one of those cubs, grown up, would hear it on Imhotep and remember him; or, a fonder hope, another Tigery would come to Lulach and get a request for it.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

In Old Town crowds milled, music twanged, savory odors rose out of foodstalls and Winged Smoke houses; for this was the season when Tigery caravans brought wares up from the lowlands.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

For an instant she was startled, until she remembered the Tigery touching on this matter before.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

It was Tigery steel, the back heavy and rasp-surfaced, the edge sharp enough to cut a floating hair.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

He jumped and paced, not man-style but as a Tigery does, weaving in and out among the trees and around the bushes.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

A human could not leap from their upper boughs to the top of the wall, but a Tigery could.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

Whatever their variations, Merseian, Tigery, and human are vertebrates.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

You know my Tigery nature'sorry would I be to lose you, but sorry am I not for putting you at risk.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

Presently she felt almost at ease-aware, without any belligerence, of the muscles beneath her skin and the Tigery knife at her belt.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

Granted, the outfit she had bought herself was scarcely in the latest Imperial court fashion-crimson mini-gown, leather sandals, bracelet and headband of massive silver set with raw turquoises, spotted gillycat pelt from right shoulder to left hip, where her Tigery knife rested-but it might well have ignited a new style there, and in any event the Imperial court was blessedly distant.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985