half tiger
Britishnoun
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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
They were things that might have been half wolf, p. 14 half tiger; each of them three hundred pounds of incredible ferocity with eyes blazing like yellow fire in their white-fanged tiger-wolf faces.
From Space Prison by Tom Godwin
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
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 Pierre Loti
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