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Tiger

noun

A fierce or audacious person. "It aroused the tiger in me"

Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered. Synonym: Panthera tigris.

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"Tiger" Quotes from Famous Books

... man after you, Mary. He's fierce as a tiger, and the folk don't like him, but he's good at bottom, and he'll make you a proper husband. But there's another chap who have more right to you according to the cards, and I see him in the crystal very plain. He's flaxen curled with a straight back and a fighting nose, and ...

— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts

... door the dew drummed loudly; moths came in clouds, hovering like snowflakes about the doorway; somewhere in the woods a tiger owl yelped. ...

— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers

... dog; he an' Tibby Hain't never quarreled yet— They sleep in my bed in winter An' keeps me warm—you bet! Mam's cat sleeps in the corner, With a piller made of her paw— Can't she growl like a tiger If anyone ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... their heads together and talked in low and rapid tones; then their spokesman approached us, a man of polite bearing but ominously stern. He was not a clumsy fellow, but darkly forceful and direct, a man capable of a quick, desperate deed. At the moment there was the grim tiger in their eyes and from the soft paw the swift protrusion of the cruel claw. One thought of the wild revolutionary song, "Ca ca, ca ira, les aristocrats a la lanterne!" They were the children of the mob that had sung that song. ...

— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer

... racked with pain, he ranges along the lofty Oeta, no otherwise than if a tiger should chance to carry the hunting spears fixed in his body, and the perpetrator of the deed should be taking to flight. Often might you have beheld him uttering groans, often shrieking aloud, often striving to tear away the whole of his ...

— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso

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