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With a fury that may fairly be described as tigerish, women waged holy wars for and against the faith proclaimed by Mohammed.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

She snatched him into her arms, and held him with a kind of tigerish ferocity.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

Only there showed in them now and then a kind of tigerish passionateness, as when I fell off the sea-wall among the boulders and howled so dismally.

The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

He is mated to it now, and it has a kind of tigerish, murderous desire after him, while he on his part is to subdue and control it.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

In person, as in her book, she is more identifiably maternal than tigerish.

Larry Summers vs. the Tiger Mom Gerard Baker 2011

And having commanded, he went aft with his peculiar tigerish leaps to the wheel.

Chapter 17 2010

In Central Park I have seen the upper lip of a quiet, peaceful man curl back in a tigerish snarl of rage because black folk rode by in a motor car.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Over the past eight years, Gujarat's GDP has grown at a tigerish double digit rate.

Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly Sadanand Dhume 2010

Over the past eight years, Gujarat's GDP has grown at a tigerish double digit rate.

Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly Sadanand Dhume 2010

Over the past eight years, Gujarat's GDP has grown at a tigerish double digit rate.

Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly Sadanand Dhume 2010