mountain-cat

London jewellers had begun to meddle with diamonds; and on the gold clasp he found some letters, done in some inverted way, the meaning of which was beyond him; also a bearing of some kind, which he believed was a mountain-cat.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

In moments, she had found one; she caught a thought and held it, and was looking through the eyes of a canny mountain-cat, crouched over a game trail.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

Let the wolf, and the vulture, and the mountain-cat, answer the question.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

The men likened him for swiftness to the deer, and for agility to the mountain-cat, and for strength to the bear, and for courage to all that is courageous; the women compared his skin to the water-lily, and his eyes to the blue sky when it is bluest, and his hair to the silken tassels of ripened corn, and his step to the stag's, and his voice to the song-sparrow's.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

One is full of sprightliness and agility -- he is of the blood of the mountain-cat; another is clumsy -- the musk-ox was his father.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

He was stronger than the bear, he was swifter than the deer, he was nimbler than the mountain-cat or the panther.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

One white-garbed scout went crawling stealthily down the snow-slope like a mountain-cat.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

And when night filled the forest with the hoot of owl, and the far, weird cries of wild creatures on the rove, there sped through the aisled columns of star light and shadow, the ghostly figure of the French boy slim, and lithe as a willow, with muscles tense as ironwood, and step silent as the mountain-cat.

Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

Furred with snow, and bearded fearfully with ice; creeping like a mountain-cat on her prey; quivering under the last pound of steam she could carry, and hissing wildly as McGraw stung her heels again and again from the throttle, the great engine moved down on the blocked cut.

The Daughter of a Magnate 1898

The wind came stronger, and sometimes a wave suddenly raged out like a mountain-cat and there was to be seen the sheen and sparkle of a broken crest.

The Open Boat 1894