ferine

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Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum?

From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main by Pyle, Howard

This does not mean that the result in either case is an all around and consistent rehabilitation of the ferine or barbarian habit of mind and body.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

The sort of ferine reputation which he had acquired for himself abroad prevented numbers, of course, of his countrymen, whom he would have most cordially welcomed, from seeking his acquaintance.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

The only ferine companions we now had were a few hardy quadrupeds and birds, capable of enduring the winter.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

Unde nostra ætate neminem ferine musicum invenias, qui non omni redundat vitiorum genere.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)