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
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
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
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 Godwin, Tom
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