half tiger
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"The enchantress," the director of the zoo explains excitedly, "is a magnificent accident of nature, half tiger and half leopard."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet his rule has a circus quality--half high-wire act, half tiger riding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Towering above him stood this great, strange creature, barefooted, ragged, half tiger, half sphinx.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
For there is a wide range of appreciation in that mercurial nature which, according to Voltaire, is half monkey and half tiger.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
Were John Calvin and Fénélon half tiger and half monkey?
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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