Meaning of wild-animal | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of wild animal.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“The dance⟳ interrupted, in a quarter of an hour, by battle; the cries, the squealings of children, of infirm persons, and other assistants, tarring them on, as the rabble does when dogs fight⟳: frightful men, or rather frightful wild-animals, clad in jupes of coarse woollen, with large girdles of leather, studded with copper nails; of gigantic stature, heightened by high wooden-clogs (sabots); rising on tiptoe to see⟳ the fight⟳; tramping time to it; rubbing their sides with their elbows: their faces haggard (figures hâves), and covered with their long greasy hair; the upper part of the visage waxing pale, the lower distorting itself into the attempt⟳ at a cruel laugh⟳ and a sort⟳ of ferocious impatience.”

“Lady Wentworth was pacing up and down, like⟳ a wild-animal in its den.”

“South of us begins a short distance, an interminable morass; a paradise for sportsmen, inhabited only by water-fowl, wild-animals, snakes, mosquitoes, and a few squatter sovereigns.”

“We have⟳ just published a New Edition of this Great Work⟳, Illustrated with very fine CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: Giving the Coloring to Life of the Scenery and Wild-Animals From Drawings made by DR. LIVINGSTONE, during Sixteen Year Wanderings in the Wilds of South Africa!”

“Some recent contributions to animal psychology, which are both new and interesting, have⟳ been made by Mr. Francis Galton, on the half-wild cattle of western South Africa, which he thus describes: “[…] They were watched from a distance during the day, as they roamed about over the country, and at night they were driven with cries to enclosures, into which they rushed much like⟳ a body of terrified wild-animals driven by huntsmen into a trap⟳.[…]””

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