Tigress

Examples

• If he had married a tigress, instead of a woman, he would have tamed the tigress. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She turned upon him like a tigress, striking his great breast with her tiny hands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She worried me like a tigress, when Rochester got the knife from her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Like a tigress she sprang, panting, to her feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The dog and his bone, the tigress and her lair, the roaring stag and his herd, these are proprietorship blazing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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