- a variation of hyena.
hyaena
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The affair was a chase of a hyaena, but everything is Mazitu!
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
Then it’s that horrible brute of a hyaena again.
From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Stanley L. Wood
It was more like the pictures she had seen of a hyaena.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
The hyaena thought awhile and then said, "My age is five hundred years old."
From Black Tales for White Children by C. H. Stigand
And I was obliged to keep trotting backwards and forwards like a hyaena in a cage to prevent myself nodding; not that I should have minded that, if I’d only had someone to talk to.”
From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by J. Percy-Groves
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