hyaena
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A hyaena or jackal has started laughing outside—phew!—what an eerie laugh—mad as can be—what horrid humour!
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
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
Three times the light from your lantern fell upon me, and twice a hyaena came and stared at me.
From The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville
The Saxons, when they first settled in England, had the words su, "pig," and sugu, "sow;" and later the word hyena was taken from the Latin word hyaena, itself derived from the Greek huaina, "sow."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
Frank could hear, high over the loud hum of insect life, the distant yelp of the jackal, the gibber of the striped hyaena, and the unearthly yell of the jungle cat.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
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