She had always been especially addicted to dining on birds, and the sensation of being carried off by one excited the feline mind to astonishment and wrath.
A cat will play with a mouse before coming to the final kill; and there was a broad streak of the feline in Storri.
There arose a smothered feline screech as from a tiger whose back is broken in a deadfall.
None of the Feline tribe will eat vegetables, unless domesticated, even then but rarely; and in their wild state, unless pressed by hunger, they will only eat what they themselves have killed.
He is the largest of the feline tribe on that continent, and is very destructive to smaller animals.
Cats are diminished examples of the feline race; but their fur is longer than that of others, and they bear a greater resemblance to leopards than to lions.
He crouches, and mostly springs in the same manner as the lion and other feline animals; he is more ferocious, and will even fight with the lion.
In the feline genus we observe that the iris can be contracted much closer than in mankind, when exposed to a vivid glare; but they also expand to a much greater degree when obscurity sets in.
Artificial excitement appears in some degree natural: it is observed in various animals, especially in the feline tribe.
A story is related of an irascible Irish piper of the name of Molroy, who declared a war implacable against the feline race, as he swore that they invariably pronounced his name in their nocturnal concerts.
April, with the wisdom of the serpent, made haste to escape before the feline creature regained the use of claw and fang.
She is anxious to know all you can tell her of poor Miss Poole," stood smiling with a feline delight in the encounter.
But Arrochkoa, in meeting him, utters in a wicked voice, in a voice tightened by his young, feline teeth, one of those series of insults which call for immediate answer and sound like an invitation to fight.
Defn: A large carnivorous felinemammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries.
Defn: A large and powerfulfeline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia.
Defn: Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx.
My readers are now familiar with the simple cutting form of the feline teeth, which are thirty in number.
This family has the smallest number of molars, a class of tooth which would indeed be useless, for the construction of the feline jaw precludes the possibility of grinding, and therefore a flat-crowned tuberculous tooth would be out of place.
They are plantigrade, and are without a caecum or blind gut; the skull, however it may approach to a viverrine or feline shape, has still marked arctoid characteristics.
I give here an illustration of the mechanism of the feline claw.
He watched her cross the courtyard, moving with all the grace and lightness of the feline race, and her simple black dress clothed her, he thought, exactly like the fur of the same supple species.
He was struck by the incongruity of a civilized being descended from simian ancestors and a civilized being descended from feline ancestors fighting fang and claw while a bunch of misplaced amphibians danced about them.
In one brief glance he saw those long barreled spring guns of theirs and the tall, graceful bodies and the feline faces under the plastic protective clothing.
The self-protective qualities of the feline race I realized on our first Sunday walk with the puppy, when a gray kitten bobbed up in our path.
With a feline bound the big revenue detective was through the door and into the church after him.
This movement, however, was not at once permitted; for gently removing the little intruder, he lighted the gas in order to see what kind of feline specimen had thus come voluntarily to seek his acquaintance.
The "Grinning like a Cheshire cat," in a continual state of mirthful good humour, suggests a quite opposite phrase of feline nature.
Now with a sudden energy of the body, she threw the Thing from her, and heard it drop, with the softness of feline feet, on the Indian rug upon the floor.
Bill Bunks has a new felineprovisional equipage ready to launch.
The platform was supported by demons, "guebre" figures all round, and columns resting on the backs of feline animals.
Their appearance was certainly most picturesque, and they possessed the cat-like manner and general ways of feline animals which made them appear rather unreliable but in a way quite attractive.
He saw the naked figure, the feline face, and the ready knife in hand.
He who lay staring with sightless eyes up at the moon was the man with the feline face and the body naked save for the cloth at the waist.
A stooping figure with a hideous, feline face shambled up by the side of Paul, and purposely struck his elbow against the wound upon his arm.
He had a hideous, feline face, and he was naked, save a breech-cloth at the waist.
Among them was a thin, middle-aged Natchez Indian, whose extraordinary, feline face had won for him the name of The Cat.
But now, as Janice plunged down the stairs after Olga, the thin, high scream of the initial feline chorister was crossed, in warp and woof, by basset strains.
That feline wail had evidently brought the Swedish girl out of her dreams, all standing.
Betwixt two of the bars of his cage, therefore, Tom was busy presenting him with one hideous puritanical face after another, in full expectation of a satisfactory outburst of feline rancour.
Madame Beattie, in spite of her cosmopolitan reign, was at least local enough to remember the feline similes Lydia put such dependence on, and she used this one with relish.
She scorned that, with a youthful scorn, the feline domination of Esther.
With a feeling of indignation at such contemptuous treatment, George Rennie re-charged his gun in haste, vowing vengeance against the whole feline race--a vow which he fully redeemed in after years.
Advancing down the kloof with that stealthy gliding motion peculiar to the feline race, the leopard soon came in sight of a fine bushbok, whose sleek sides drew from him an irrepressible snicker of delight.
Its mildness, obedient temper, and attachment when tame, naturally define its place on the confines of the Feline and the Canine family.
