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Definition of Tigerlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tigerlike
Literary usage of Tigerlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"Those who want an illustration of the ordinary spirit of the times should note
Sulla's tigerlike thirst for blood, and compare his treatment of his enemies ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... of his oracular effusions, I cannot tell) has been frequently heard to growl
with tigerlike satisfaction over the recent distress of the Sister Island. ..."
3. A History of American Literature .. by Moses Coit Tyler (1890)
"... a tenet all red and bloody with those most barbarous and tigerlike massacres
of so many thousand and ten thousands, formerly in France and other parts, ..."
4. Complete Life of William McKinley and Story of His Assassination: An by Marshall Everett (1901)
"... "The various foreign powers cast upon us looks of tigerlike voracity, hustling
each other in their endeavors to be the first to seize upon our innermost ..."
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