ferine

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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.

From The Gun-Brand by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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)

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 Defoe, Daniel