half tiger
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Yet his rule has a circus quality--half high-wire act, half tiger riding.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The enchantress," the director of the zoo explains excitedly, "is a magnificent accident of nature, half tiger and half leopard."
From Time Magazine Archive
Actually there she is, behind him; Chrysanthème almost on all fours, hidden between the paws of a great granite beast, half tiger, half dog, against which our fragile tent is leaning.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre
It was the image of a creature half tiger half lion, about four feet high and a foot and a half round.
The generous Henri IV., the noble Sully, and Bayard the knight sans peur et sans reproche, were these half tiger and half monkey?
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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