ferine

Example Sentences

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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

The Here, the Now, the vast Forlorn around us; The gold-delirium, the ferine strife; The lusts that lure us on, the hates that hound us; Our red rags in the patch-work quilt of Life.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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)

"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 London, Jack