ferine

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

From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main by Pyle, Howard

Unde nostra ætate neminem ferine musicum invenias, qui non omni redundat vitiorum genere.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

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 Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

We killed some wild ferine creatures at the foot of these hills; but, except two things, like to nothing that we ever saw before, we met with nothing that was fit to eat.

From The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Defoe, Daniel