ferine

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The only ferine companions we now had were a few hardy quadrupeds and birds, capable of enduring the winter.

From Project Gutenberg

In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.

From Project Gutenberg

The sort of ferine reputation which he had acquired for himself abroad prevented numbers, of course, of his countrymen, whom he would have most cordially welcomed, from seeking his acquaintance.

From Project Gutenberg

Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum?

From Project Gutenberg

This does not mean that the result in either case is an all around and consistent rehabilitation of the ferine or barbarian habit of mind and body.

From Project Gutenberg