hyaena
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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
The large striped hyaena is called “wolf” in South Afrioa, just as the panther is always referred to as “tiger.”
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
It was more like the pictures she had seen of a hyaena.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram
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.
I saw that it had been seized by the neck, and therefore knew that a leopard had killed it, a hyaena or wolf generally seizing by the flank.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)
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