ferine
Example Sentences
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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
"Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."
From The Call of the Wild by Jack London
In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.
From The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
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 John Franklin
There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
