ferine
Example Sentences
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The only ferine companions we now had were a few hardy quadrupeds and birds, capable of enduring the winter.
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He crouched like a beast, ferine—all the obscure and diabolic passion of him ready to spring.
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In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.
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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.
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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?
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