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 Howard Pyle
We killed some wild ferine creatures at the foot of these hills; but, except two things, like to nothing that we ever saw before, we met with nothing that was fit to eat.
From The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 Thomas Moore
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 Thorstein Veblen
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