- a variation of hyena.
hyaena
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If thou art hungry catch that laughing devil of a hyaena; but me, poor me, thou wilt surely not harm me!”
From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
He has the cowardice and the ferocity of the hyaena.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Three times the light from your lantern fell upon me, and twice a hyaena came and stared at me.
From The Golden Rock by Glanville, Ernest
It is only a hyaena, and the hungry fellow has scented a prey.
From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Goethe cared little for him; Voltaire laughed at him; Nietzsche called him "an hyaena poetizing among the tombs."
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
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