Like a tigress she fought to free herself, or to detain her captor until the rescue party should catch up with them, but the scoundrel was muscled like a bull, and when the girl held back he lifted her across his shoulder and broke into a run.
Slowly the tigress crawled on, probably fearing him more than she had her late enemy, and turning a glance towards him, in which defiance was mingled with dread.
You and your faithful tigress saved me from the daggers of my traitorous officers.
Very likely she may be of use, too, for I suspect that no robbers, nor even Thugs, would dare attack a man with a tigress as his protector.
In a few seconds the crocodile would have reached the water; but just then the tigress caught a firm hold of the trunk of a tree projecting into the river, to which she held on, at the risk of having her paw bitten off.
I am not going to imbrue my hands in your blood; but this tigress would, at a word from me, tear you limb from limb.
Meanwhile, the crocodile was dragging the unfortunate tigress still nearer and nearer the river.
The fright given them by the sudden appearance of the tigress prevented the rebels from again issuing out of their fortification, and Reginald and his friends were able to get some distance before daylight.
It must be that abominable tigress which I thought had been killed," he exclaimed.
Several other bodies lay about treated in the same manner, so that it was impossible to say whether the tigress had killed him.
There is wisdom in that remark," coolly observed Khan Cochut; and Bikoo was forthwith despatched by his master to explore the place into which the tigress had tumbled.
If that savage tigress could thus risk the loss of her life for the sake of her cubs, think what must be your mother's love for you.
The tigress generally takes much less care of her young than does the lioness of her whelps.
A tigress skulked somewhere in a thicket licking an injured leg with her rough tongue, pausing to listen to every sound the night gave forth.
The great tigress was at the height of her hunting madness.
The beaters would prevent the tigress from turning back beyond the village, and it was at least possible that he would get a shot at her as she burst from the jungle and crossed the field to the heavier thickets beyond.
If any one had told him that a full-grown tigress could have crept to such a place and still remained invisible, he would have laughed.
The tigress sprawled down also, and because she lighted on her wounded paw, she squealed with pain.
I have more to confess: the tigress in me wishes it were!
An old tiger, who roars in the midst of carnage, has also its beauty; his tigress answers him from the depths of the desert.
Illustration: The Godsdown Tigress with her cub (Lady and Tommy Crowmarsh) came.
He told her that it was bread: the tigress said that she would like to try some herself, whereupon the potter replied that he would give her some if she would first give him some of her milk.
And the froth from the cow's mouth floated down the stream and the tigress tasted it and found it nice, and this made her think that the flesh of the cow must also be good; so she resolved to eat the cow one day.
The two youngsters always used to play together very happily but that day the calf would not play but kept going to look at the bowl of milk; and the tigress cub asked the reason.
They then pointed out the Potter in the tree and the tigress wanted to know what he had given her cubs to eat.
Then the tigress knew that she had met her master and ran into her cave.
One afternoon the cow and the tigress went down to a stream to drink, the cow went into the stream and drank and the tigress drank lower down.
The tigress followed in pursuit, but the aged couple hid the prince and assured the tigress that he had not been seen; so the tigress returned disappointed.
One day it happened that the cow got first to the river and drank at the upper drinking place, and the tigress drank lower down.
A Tigress and a Cow used to graze in a dense jungle, and they were both with young.
The calf told her what his mother had said; then the tigress cub said that if this happened she would never suck from her mother again and it would be better for them both to run away.
The tigress pointed out to him all the bears which were roaming in the jungle and said that they were her cattle.
The tigresshaving been milked, the Potter gave her a loaf of bread and then ran away as fast as he could.
She had hastened away to her own apartment, as a wounded tigress seeks its cave for a last stand!
Berthe Louison, springing up like a tigress in defense of her cubs.
A tigress had been fired at by a party of horsemen, and wounded; but man and horse went down before that fearful charge.
Well it was for him that Fred Freeman was close at hand: that man-eating tigressdrank no more blood.
The tigress then cut the bag open with her teeth, and the tiger sprang out, exclaiming, "Of a truth she has given me a bride.
The tigress having boiled the water, went to the spring.
The tiger and the tigress being of one mind on the subject agreed never to separate.
A short time afterwards a tigress came down to the river to drink and seeing the bag, and thinking it might contain something edible she seized it and dragged it up on to the bank.
In a short time the tigress returned, and entering the den said, "I smell a human being.
After a time the tigress died, and left the cub alone in the world.
The tigress replied, "I also am seeking Jhore; he has scalded my cubs to death.
You have told the tigress that you have the power to separate her from her cub, and that you mean to use it.
The lean brown fingers of the Italian woman had her by the throat--held her as the claws of a tigress might have held her.
So, when the prisoners were brought forth, the tigress rose up in her place, and spake openly to the assembled barons (a shameful thing for a woman to do!
It was supposed that the robbed tigress on being confronted with a convex mirror supposed the reduced image to be her cub and contentedly retired with the mirror in her mouth.
Another story makes the tigress vent her anger on an ordinary (not convex) mirror.
Pallid, but defiant, she uttered a low hoarse sound which resembled the growl of a tigress from whom her prey has been snatched, and with a firm and haughty step left the apartment, glaring over her shoulder at me to the last.
Why not take a period of rest after the great effort of maternity proportionately as long as a she-wolf or tigress takes in her cave, fed by her mate while she lies about and plays with her cubs?
The standard of beauty of the racing mare, of the wild tigress or she-wolf is slender and not markedly different from that of its virgin state.
Her long hair streaming behind her, her eyes like those of a tigress protecting her cubs, A-ya darted to the cave-door.
Young and vigorous, she fought like a tigress till stunned by a blow on the head, which was not before both her assailants were streaming with blood from the jabs of her sharp digging-stick.
A man does not chain himself to a tigress whose bite and whose blows he has felt.
Like a chained tigress she walked the terraces and heard their laughter, but no word did she say.
It was the purrink of the tigressthat did it, sir.
He recalled that reincarnated tigress idea of Kneedrock's.
I infinitely prefer the original tigress with her stripes to the reincarnated creature with her soft hands and her rose-leaf cheeks.
She would bathe in the woodland pool, remembering no more that she might be watched by human eyes than does the young tigress that has never beheld the face of man.
She tore at the rope on her wrists with her teeth, like a young tigress at her chains.
She stooped as a tigress stoops to rise the stronger for her death spring, and her voice was low, on a level with his ear.
She saved herself by such madness of rage, such fury of resistance, as the native tigress knows in the glare of the torches or the bonds of the cords.
A flying lemur from the Pelews contemplated swooping upon the head of a huge tigress which glared with glassy eyes across the place at the snarling muzzle of a polar bear.
The flying lemur continued apparently to contemplate the idea of swooping upon the head of the tigress where she crouched upon her near-by pedestal.
There are spiritual children, ideals, illusions, romantic beliefs in others, the cold-blooded murder of which arouses the tigress in some women.
She was a tigressof a woman, and, no doubt, her six years' usurpation was stained with blood and with the nameless abominations of Baal worship.
The vigilance of the tigress had been eluded, and Athaliah had a rude awakening.
Lord de Winter himself could scarcely recognize the tigress who, a minute before, prepared apparently for a fight.
She traversed her chamber with the excitement of a furious maniac or of a tigress shut up in an iron cage.
Still, I shouldn't wonder if there's something of the tigress in her, and she could give a nasty dig.
Tigress or no, she was a woman, and he knew that, as far as she was capable of caring, she had cared for him.
