ferine

Arvia ustentu, vatuva ferine feitu, heris vinu heri puni.

The Iguvine Tablets and Etruscan 2007

Both kinds I call solitary instances, or ferine, to borrow a term from astronomers.

The New Organon 2005

It was ferine and spectral, and so tremendously violent, that the long attorney, expecting nothing of the sort, was thrown out of his balance against the chimneypiece.

Wylder's Hand 2003

There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.

Wylder's Hand 2003

When the riser halted and the portal reopened, she was greeted by a vista of tangled alien rain forest, wondrous aromas, and ferine screeching.

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

When the riser halted and the portal reopened, she was greeted by a vista of tangled alien rain forest, wondrous aromas, and ferine screeching.

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.

The Gun-Brand 1921

Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum?

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 1921

This does not mean that the result in either case is an all around and consistent rehabilitation of the ferine or barbarian habit of mind and body.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura -- a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without a corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899