Tigerish

With a fury that may fairly be described as tigerish, women waged holy wars for and against the faith proclaimed by Mohammed. ❋ Jan (2008)

She snatched him into her arms, and held him with a kind of tigerish ferocity. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Only there showed in them now and then a kind of tigerish passionateness, as when I fell off the sea-wall among the boulders and howled so dismally. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

He is mated to it now, and it has a kind of tigerish, murderous desire after him, while he on his part is to subdue and control it. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

In person, as in her book, she is more identifiably maternal than tigerish. ❋ Gerard Baker (2011)

And having commanded, he went aft with his peculiar tigerish leaps to the wheel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Central Park I have seen the upper lip of a quiet, peaceful man curl back in a tigerish snarl of rage because black folk rode by in a motor car. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book is positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Over the past eight years, Gujarat's GDP has grown at a tigerish double digit rate. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2010)

Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book becomes positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For England, this was a performance to relish: tigerish fast bowling and fielding on the first day; greedy, skilful batting on the second and third, and then a web weaved by the outstanding spinner in world cricket on the fourth and what play there was on the fifth. ❋ Michael Atherton (2010)

She put something very like it into The Good Earth, in the scene where Wang Lung finds himself caught up by a mob preparing to sack a city house: “howling together the deep tigerish howl that he had heard rising and swelling out of the streets … people pressed forward so tightly packed together that foot was on foot and body wedged tightly against body so that the whole mass moved together as one.” ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

A World is Born by Leigh Brackett: Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But although Rimes trots out the what-a-set-of-pipes mannerisms -- the demi-yodel, the tigerish growl -- there's no apparent consciousness behind the voice; on "Crazy," she might as well be singing a John Ashbery poem. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This probably helps explain his tigerish priorities for the income generating fourth component of NAIS — ENFORCEMENTS. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[I never] knew how tigerish [Susie] is when she gives head. [whOa]. ❋ GiO (2005)