hyaena
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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 Wood, Stanley L.
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 Percy-Groves, J.
The animals characteristic of the epoch are the Elephas antiquus, the rhinoceros, the cave-bear, the hippopotamus and the striped hyaena.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
“It’s not leopard, it’s not hyaena; what on earth is it, Cupido?”
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
To which the spectators replied, “The blessing of God be upon thee!—Thou art a hyaena: thou art a lion.”
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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