The HYENA DOG (Canis pictus) does not belong to the hyenas proper, but to the dog-like animals of prey.
The hyena greeted me at the gate; and though I was not prepared for it, I innocently did the right thing.
She was living with her husband quite contentedly in this desolate place, in a mud hut, and her only companions were a hyena and a lynx, which slept on her bed.
None shall say that Pieter Retief was afraid of any man, and, least of all, of one who is not ashamed to try to steal a prize as a hyena steals a bone from a lion.
I gave it to him, and he devoured it as a famished hyena might do, tearing off the tough meat in lumps and bolting them whole.
So Klaus went, taking the remaining leg of the hyena with him, and on the afternoon of the second day arrived as has been told.
By now they were starving, only Klaus was the stronger of the two, for he found and devoured some carrion, a dead hyena I think it was.
And if this beast hyena goeth thrice about any beast, that beast shall stint within his steps.
This beast hyena fleeth the hunter, and draweth toward the right side, to occupy the trace of the man that goeth before: and if he cometh not after, he telleth that he goeth out of his wit, or else the man falleth down off his horse.
The hyenais a cruel beast like to the wolf in devouring and gluttony, and reseth on dead men, and taketh their carcase out of the earth, and devoureth them.
No hyena was to be seen, only the man himself with a fresh wound.
Stuart took the hyena coolly, regarding him as an amusing phenomenon; Travers surveyed him as he would the portrait of the Nabob on London hoardings, and pronounced him a whimsical illustration of Republican sauce.
I nicknamed him the hyena in my own mind; but I could not conceive him laughing anywhere save in front of a garrote with a Royalist neck in the rundel, and then his laugh at best would be but the inward chuckle of a Modoc.
About Port Dalrymple an animal was discovered which bore some resemblance to the hyena both in shape and fierceness; with a wide mouth, strong limbs, sharp claws and a striped skin.
During our stay a native tiger or hyena bounded from its lair beneath the rocks.
As the cleaning up of the world must be done in some way for the good of all, can we not believe that the hyena has an important mission to fulfil in spite of the strong feeling against it?
The hyena did that also, and their gentle request consisted of a low but very hoarse cry.
The stories of the body snatching propensities of the Striped Hyena are much exaggerated.
But Mrs. Hyena had no name, for the keeper declared that she was such a miserably cowardly mean creature that she was not worth one.
The first Hyena in which I became interested lived in a zoölogical garden connected with a well known park.
The spotted hyena is the largest of the three, the most ferocious, stupid and cruel.
The Arabs "believe that people who partake of the brain of the hyena become insane, and the head of a hyena is always buried lest it should be used by wicked sorcerers for their diabolical charms.
Each of us had a hyena at his side and the animal sat on his haunches as quietly and sensibly as a well behaved dog who pleads for a few scraps at the table.
They also believe that the hyena "are sorcerers in disguise, who assume human shape by day and prowl around as hyenas by night, working destruction upon good people.
The dislike for the hyena seems to exist wherever the animal is found.
It is found in a comparatively small region and is in some respects like the spotted hyena though it is smaller, being about the size of the Striped Hyena.
Was the same savage able to extirpate the hyena and the lion, though the representatives of those fierce beasts still partially set us at defiance in India, notwithstanding the rifles and gunpowder of modern civilization?
He was a very celebrated and skilful doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, now turned into a human hyena in the name of Liberty and Fraternity.
Milor that night mingled with the crowd who waited on the human hyena to be cured of their hurts.
But nature had given him a hideous aspect; and circumstances had imbued his soul with the ferocity of a hyena and the subtlety of a serpent.
The powerful dog, in the twinkling of an eye, reached the top, and laid at Stas' feet a striped hyena with broken back and gnawed foot.
He thought that such a man ought to bear on his shoulders the head of a hyena or a crocodile, and instead he saw before him a chubby-faced gourd, resembling drawings of a full moon.
A leopard, lion, or even a big hyena would find in him an easy prey.
You do not need to feed him, for if our leavings are not sufficient it will not be difficult for him to get a hyena or jackal.
The Hyena was obliged to obey, but contrived to hide in the grass some of the tripe.
Behind my troop the Hyena and his families shall follow to finish those who may be but bruised by our heavy hoofs.
Meanwhile Hyena having killed the cow and dressed the meat beautifully, said to Dogs, "Now, my friends, the meat is ready.
King Lion prefers lying near that great log there, Brother Rhinoceros throws himself down on the edge of the banana-grove, Leopard curls himself near the fence, and Hyena snores stupidly near his pile of bones.
Soon a leopard and then a hyena were met, but seeing such a powerful crowd behind the cow, they affected great civility, and were invited to accompany Rabbit's party to Mugassa's feast.
The Hyena uttered a mocking laugh, and said: "My kind friends and cousins: The night suits me well, for I am in my element then.
She now changed her tactics, thinking she might catch Pierrette tripping by softness; the hyena became a cat.
But Mademoiselle Sylvie, with that voice like a hoarse hyena and those lobster-claws of hands!
As the hyena is lazy as well as cowardly, and almost never does his killing, we inferred a good meat supply to gather so many of them in one place.
In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter.
They never got hold of one, for the hyenais a coward.
The cry of a hyena broke on the stillness of the night, savage, blood-curdling.
The hyena gave a snarl of surprise and fear, dropped Om, and sprang away into the thicket, with leaps longer than any he had made in his life, for the fear of the fire was on him.
They are sometimes called the hunting hyena (Hyena venatica).
Almost at the same instant he perceived the hyena making off through the bushes, as it sent back another of its unearthly cachinnations--the last it ever uttered.
With something like a feeling of satisfied vengeance, the young hunter saw the hyena roll over dead.
Several shots were fired and two lionesses and a hyena killed, but one wounded lion succeeded in escaping.
That night an enclosure was built, baited, and a gin placed at each entrance, but later only a hyena met its death.
Not for nothing had the hyena bitch warned him of men.
Upon waking he had heard yet again the hoarse words of the hyena bitch who bore him, as she lay dying, abandoned, in the snow.
A hyenawould convince a Sadducee of the Resurrection of the Dead--the worst sort of Dead.
Half a dozen jackals went through the compound singing, and a hyena stood afar off and mocked them.
The hyena set up a laugh like a man who is not tickled, but feels that it is up to him to laugh at a funny story that he can't see the point of at a banquet where Chauncey Depew tells one of his crippled jokes, and pa was getting nervous.
The hyenas and jackals are, it is true, a little troublesome, and howl and cry incessantly about the canvas of our tent; but the noise of a hyena is as music compared to the coughing and groaning of a sick Hindoo; and so we do not grumble.
The hyena and jackal are the only animals met with which could, even by courtesy, be called wild-beasts.
Do you not then know, child, how you can make thehyena gentle, and the tiger tame?
The silence of the desert overwhelmed me; it was so terrible that I almost wished the hyena back for company.
The howling of a hyena woke me up, and, on glancing around, I saw the beast's flaming eyes quite close to me.
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