ferine

The only ferine companions we now had were a few hardy quadrupeds and birds, capable of enduring the winter.

He crouched like a beast, ferine—all the obscure and diabolic passion of him ready to spring.

In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.

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.

Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum?