Battered though he was, the splendid vigor of the man still showed in a certain tigerish litheness that sore, stiff muscles could not conceal.
He met Dan'l's charge with the tigerish venom that characterized him in his rages; he leaped and was fairly in the air when Dan'l struck him.
He and Willis Cox shared a small compartment off the main cabin; while Dan'l and tigerish old Tichel shared another.
This began one day when a fo'm'st hand came aft to take the wheel and old Tichel smelled the liquor on him, and saw that the man's feet were unsteady, and flew into one of histigerish fits of rage.
It intoxicated her; and in the same fashion it affected Noll Wing, and Dan'l Tobey, and tigerish old Tichel.
James Tichel, the third mate, was a thin little old man given to occasional bursts of tigerish rage in which he was the match for any man aboard.
I am ever at the Lady Theodora's service," Persephone replied, with drooping lids, but Theodora caught a gleam of tigerish ferocity beneath those silken lashes that fired her own blood.
For once her efforts were baffled and she met a resistance which all the tigerish ferocity of her nature could not overcome.
He warned the minister that Neville had a tigerish nature and would yet be guilty of terrible crime.
She still moved with her smooth, tigerish elasticity, but she herself was conscious of an overwhelming fatigue.
Something tigerish had leapt up in the breasts of both men.
His foot slipped as he made an involuntarily backward movement, and he found himself almost prostrate on the slippery weed-grown bank, with those tigerish yellow eyes not very far from his own.
On the morning of the following day, Sunday, the 14th, Dunedin was horrified by the discovery of a far more terrible crime, tigerish certainly in its apparent ferocity.
With the words she reached him with her subtle, tigerish glide, swiftly, startlingly, and with the dart of a cobra her hand gripped his which held the dagger.
Then suddenly her expression changed, her lips parted in scorn, and with a savage, tigerish gesture, she tore off her splendors.
Then, keeping the fellow ever before him, he suddenly flung him into the air by the waist, shifting holds with tigerish swiftness, and caught him by the ankles as he came down.
But the Emperor was not there to discuss empire building, much less to face the tigerishlight in his lady's eyes.
How the wicked, tigerish eyes gleamed when the creature ran on again with eager haste and dripping fangs!
Thoms' trembling fingers were at his throat in a moment--Thoms' tigerish eyes flashed out their rage.
The Gold and Green's tigerishrushes were hurled back--three times Captain Butch threw his backfield against the line, and three times not an inch was gained.
She knew also by the sudden compression of his lips and the white line about them that her foreman felt himself to be no match for this tigerish fighter.
It seemed a miracle that this tigerish fighter should have been suddenly reduced to the helplessness of a child.
And in answer Nap leaned down with a sudden, tigerishmovement and laid his hand on hers.
Her last glimpse of him had been in that violet glare of lightning, inexpressibly terrible, with tigerish eyes that threatened her and snarling lips drawn back.
Such a mixture of tigerish tenderness, servile idolatry, intemperate desire, and craven fear he had never seen delineated on the face of any human being.
She might have been looking into a mirror which subtly altered her reflection, lending it a tigerish gleam of eye, a vindictive curl of lip.
Voluptuous as she was, tigerish Siena was more consistent than you would think.
And Louis Laplante rose and tip-toed after me with a tigerish malice that recalled the surly squaw.
Receiving no answer, he spoke again with a tigerish expansion of his thick lips.
He fixed his large eyes on Landless as he spoke, and his thick lips curled into a tigerish smile.
A soft tigerish step and the rustle of a cloak warned him, but before he could turn, a heavy arm hooked about his throat from behind, crushing the cry before it could reach his lips.
But they could not stand against these maddened giants, led by thetigerish barbarian.
Sometimes, I don't know but that it may be a drop of what is tigerish in their blood.
He had heated that tigerish blood I told you of to-day, before then.
It was the sense of personal impotency, the sense of personal inactivity that filled him with a sort of savage, tigerish impatience now.
French has been so insufferably conceited since he shot tigerish cat No.
All the boys likewise (in new clothes and ready for church) are at this instant prone on their stomachs behind bushes, whooshing and crying (after tigerish cat No.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tigerish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
