Those slanderers I would gladly take, With all who help their schemes to make, And to the tigers throw.
If wolves and tigers such should spare, Td hurl them 'midst the freezing air, Where the keen north winds blow.
The Siberian tiger has a thick fur, a small mane, and a longitudinal stripe down the back, while the tigers of Java and Sumatra differ in many important respects from the tigers of Northern Asia.
These tigers have exceedingly different characteristics, but still they all keep their general features, so that there is no doubt as to their being tigers.
Still the fight was not over; Stanapat's Indians rushed like tigers on the palisades, and let themselves be killed without recoiling an inch.
Wolves were the financiers, foxes their secretaries, doves presided in the criminal courts, and tigers in the courts of equity.
The tigers themselves are tormented with the heat of their own claws, and in order to relieve the pain, they rub them against the tree seibo, and leave the mark of their nails in the bark.
Tigers will devour, to the last morsel, horses' carcasses streaming with liquid putrefaction, though living horses be at hand.
Hence an Abipon is very rarely devoured by a tiger, but innumerable tigers are devoured by the Abipones.
Tigers of this description have an intense craving after men, and continually lie in wait for them.
Innumerable tigers are yearly caught with leathern thongs by the Spaniards and Indians, on horseback, and are strangled, after being swiftly dragged for some time along the ground.
Paraguay abounds in tigers from the number of its cattle, which are the food of these beasts.
In repeated battles with tigers many persons are wounded by their claws.
But as tigers are possessed of singular strength, swiftness, and cunning, it is scarcely safe for one person to pursue them in the open plain.
Not to go unattended, she commonly had a little parrot on her shoulder, and a small monkey on her arm, unterrified by the tigers that haunt that neighbourhood.
As the African lions far exceed those of Paraguay in size and ferocity, the African tigers yield in like proportion to the Paraguayrians in the size of their bodies.
Tigers and stags like those of our country, which are very numerous, come out upon the shores.
You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.
Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.
The tigers and wolves, nature and motion, rivers and echoes, come into work here again.
At the sight of her grief— Tigersand wolves their wonted rage forgo, And dumb distress and new compassion show, Nature herself attentive silence kept, And motion seemed suspended while she wept!
Than wildest wolves and savage tigers are; With lambs and sheep their hunger is appeased, But ravenous Death the shepherdess has seized.
As soldiers they are second to none, amenable to discipline and docile, but very tigers when roused; they fought with unflinching spirit during the Mutiny, freely giving up their lives in the service of their European masters.
Illustration: "Like young tigersthe boys tugged at the heavy sweeps.
As the happy time drew near, the lions and tigers climbing up the bedroom walls became quite tame and frolicsome.
Like ravens they quickly gather, like tigers they watch their prey.
I have a great mind to call to them to roar more like tigers that they are.
Would not one say it was a band of tigers howling in the darkness?
Baby tigers are like kittens--I saw some pictures of them once.
I imagine they go around without any clothes on and the tigers eat them," she decided, recalling to mind several doleful pictures she had seen in an old geography.
Sarah shivered, not in sympathy with the scantily clad children, but because of the tigers mentioned.
Though how you're going to keep the mice and the cats and the snakes and the tigers all happy and contented together, is more than I'm able to figure out.
The tigers ceased to roar and the elephants to scream; the bears raised their snouts from their foul banquets, and the wolves dropped from their jaws the remnants of human flesh.
Tigers are frequently pitted by the native chiefs of Java against buffaloes, but I never was fortunate enough to witness one of those conflicts.
She used to carry the young tigers around so, and play with them, before we lost our property; but it was only play; she never took on about them like this when their dinner disagreed with them.
Those who learned that most tigers are not conquered by walking up to them and hitting them on the noggin undoubtedly died before they could pass this bit of information on.
And those tigers among men, having conversed with the ladies went through their daily physical exercises and then performed the religious rites of the day.
Dost thou not know that being a deer thou provokest so many tigers to rage?
Then those tigers among men, those heroes of great prowess, with their bare arms as their only weapons, cheerfully engaged themselves in the encounter, each desirous of vanquishing the other.
Then Yudhishthira endued with great energy addressing all his brothers, said, 'Ye tigers among men, ye have heard what the island-born Rishi hath told me.
Those tigers among men out of sheer luck escaped all those machinations.
And so other tigers among men were appointed to similar offices.
I tell How bright she seems, and how her accents flow, Not unto man alone Love's flames would spread, But even bears and tigers share the spell.
They have tigers that do a great deal of mischief, also elephants in great abundance, the teeth of which are of great value.
They catch horses by means of similar nooses, and are even said to catch tigers in the same manner, which, however strange it may appear, is asserted by persons of credit.
The lions and tigers came in and took their places, and Kitty and King watched with interest as they obeyed the trainer's word, and did as he bade them.
It was lots more fun than a peanut hunt, and they found elephants, lions, and tigers tucked away behind window curtains and sofa pillows, under tables and chairs, and even behind the pictures on the walls.
Whenever the tigers approached the edge of the forest, our dog, who before had barked incessantly, came howling to seek protection under the hammocks.
The Indians describe several kinds of tigers and tiger-cats, each of which hunts one kind of animal in particular, whose call it can imitate.
Bacchus will be here Astride upon his gorgeous Indian throne, And over whimpering tigers shake the spear With yellow ivy crowned and gummy cone, While at his side the wanton Bassarid Will throw the lion by the mane and catch the mountain kid!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tigers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
