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  • When the doors burst open, Bezu Fache entered like a bull into a ring, his feral eyes scanning, finding his target—Leigh Teabing—helpless on the floor.†   (source)
  • Paths of feral fire in the coagulate sands.†   (source)
  • Feral cats.†   (source)
  • "That was with a pickax," she said, her smile growing feral.†   (source)
  • But Frau Elena watches the boys with wary eyes: not so long ago they were feral toddlers skulking in their cots and crying for their mothers.†   (source)
  • Once I shot over the heads of a pack of feral dogs that had gotten a little too interested in my campsite.†   (source)
  • Cheddar was not a feral cat.†   (source)
  • They were supposed to eliminate feral cats, thus improving the almost non-existent songbird population.†   (source)
  • I don't miss the feral flash of teeth.†   (source)
  • I want nothing to do with these boys, who seem as feral as a pack of dogs.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe the feral mother became scared and might have abandoned her kittens.†   (source)
  • So it wasn't a huge surprise when the police concluded that a pack of feral dogs had killed my grandfather.†   (source)
  • Janson kicked out, flailed his arms, but Thomas held on with feral rage, clutching, leaning forward with all his weight to crush as he constricted his hands tighter and tighter.†   (source)
  • The Dothraki ate horse, in truth; they also left deformed children out for the feral dogs who ran behind their khalasars.†   (source)
  • But after a while she relaxes around me again, stops looking at me distrustfully, like I'm some caged-up animal she's worried will go feral.†   (source)
  • His upper lip pulled back in a feral smile, revealing teeth filed to points.†   (source)
  • Ruth used to joke that Fu-Fu, her feral cat, born with a nasty disposition, was the grandchild LuLing never had.†   (source)
  • Edward bared his teeth, crouching in defense, a feral snarl ripping from his throat.†   (source)
  • A feral look of guilt and recognition.†   (source)
  • He barely has time to bark out a warning to the other nice doggies before he launches himself from his doghouse, propelled on a white-hot jet of pure, feral emotion.†   (source)
  • Feral.†   (source)
  • Singly and in pairs, feral and scarred street cats, plump, smooth-coated house cats, all shapes, every size, purebred and mixed, long-haired and short-haired, they moved through the shadows in a silent feline wave.†   (source)
  • Suddenly there was something feral behind his eyes, something vicious and cold.†   (source)
  • The demon looked worn and feral.†   (source)
  • She and her husband, a floral designer, had two children, and all was good until Carol began feeling an uncontrollable, feral urge to run through the streets at night.†   (source)
  • I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal.†   (source)
  • The long lashes that made her look so innocent when she was sleeping in the infirmary tent now lent a feral gleam to her enormous blue eyes.†   (source)
  • She had stayed as long as she could, in fact extending her visit several times, but she had a husband at home who she only half jokingly fretted was quite possibly turning feral as he survived alone on TV dinners and ESPN.†   (source)
  • The lips didn't move with the words, but stayed frozen in that feral snarl.†   (source)
  • His eyes glowed ferally in the dark.†   (source)
  • His rage lends him a lion's strength, and for a second he is every inch our mother, honey hair glowing, eyes blazing, mouth twisted in a feral snarl.†   (source)
  • Kevin's eyes were feral, his movements jerky.†   (source)
  • Howling, like a feral cat that'd been caged too long.†   (source)
  • The feral pig is considered a "pest animal," and as such is not subject to protections afforded, say, a deer, or a person.†   (source)
  • I wanted to look lithe and graceful and perhaps feral as I unwrapped my feet and sat up.†   (source)
  • Edgar watched her, a lanky kid who had a sort of feral intelligence, a sureness of gesture and step—she looked sleepless but alert, she looked unwashed but completely clean somehow, earth-clean and hungry and quick.†   (source)
  • Ithal is up with his dagger, alert as any feral thing is.†   (source)
  • Her eyes turn almost feral.†   (source)
  • It was a feral instinct, much like the one that led me to her.†   (source)
  • Don't touch me," Shay growled, his eyes feral.†   (source)
  • This guy lacked a feral gleam in his eyes — but I wasn't going to let down my guard.†   (source)
  • MEETING THE VYES Towering over Cooper, the vye fixed each of the children with a dark, feral stare.†   (source)
  • I was not a totally ignorant feral recluse.†   (source)
  • But not more sense than a gang of feral children attacking them.†   (source)
  • Pig's eyes had glazed over with that feral, gauzy look he assumed whenever he invoked the image of Theresa in front of sacrilegious strangers in the room.†   (source)
  • His eyes seemed especially bright, almost feral.†   (source)
  • He had escaped only because a feral pig that had been feeding on the dead had been startled by the firing and had run through no-man's-land, usurping the Austrian aim while he himself dragged the dead body of his friend through the muddy depressions.†   (source)
  • She smiled, but it was the hunter's smile, dark and feral.†   (source)
  • She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight.†   (source)
  • "I was about to say the same thing to you," he replied with a feral smile.   (source)
    feral = untamed or wild
  • When she held out her arm, offering it to Elliott, I pressed against the rough bark of the tree, forcing myself to stay still and hidden as he fell to his knees before her and, while he made feral grunts and moans, began to suck Neferet's blood.   (source)
    feral = previously domesticated, but now wild
  • It sounded raw, almost feral.   (source)
    feral = wild or untamed
  • She was attacked by a pack of feral dogs.
    feral = previously domesticated, but now living in the wild
  • His voice seethed with a feral intensity.†   (source)
  • The feral red eyes were dominant — hard to look away from.†   (source)
  • His body was emaciated, slimy, and black, and his head was that of a feral beast.†   (source)
  • When he saw me, he smiled, fierce and feral.†   (source)
  • His pockmarked face became feral, and he charged, aiming a direct blow to her heart.†   (source)
  • His eyes were feral with loosely chained rage; he looked ready to tear the dwarf into pieces.†   (source)
  • Buzzards, crows, feral cats, packs of hungry dogs.†   (source)
  • Fox's grin at Gage was wild and wide as the feral wind battered them.†   (source)
  • His eyes boil and his screams are feral.†   (source)
  • His face would flicker, sometimes human, sometimes the feral maw of the Set animal.†   (source)
  • But that feral part of me cared only for safety.†   (source)
  • By night, the sergeant lashed him, hungry and feral.†   (source)
  • It's all she can do to restrain herself from flying at his face with her claws out like a feral cat.†   (source)
  • His words take on a feral edge, heavy with a wild anger.†   (source)
  • Some former POWs became almost feral with rage.†   (source)
  • From this spot she could also still make sure no feral beasts were about to rip into the crowd.†   (source)
  • He held a small black dagger, sharp teeth bared in a feral snarl.†   (source)
  • Louie spoke of what a feral boy he had once been, and all that Pete had done to rescue him.†   (source)
  • More hissing, scuffling, and feral moans—like giant alley cats fighting.†   (source)
  • Looks something like a werewolf in its feral state.†   (source)
  • Her nails had grown, too, and her eyes held a feral, greenish gleam.†   (source)
  • It might once have been beautiful, but I was more inclined to think it had always been feral.†   (source)
  • But it came again, and again, leaping, snapping, its eyes feral and horribly human.†   (source)
  • He was physically imposing and seemed to simmer with a quiet, almost feral intensity.†   (source)
  • No, Maureen's behavior has all the hallmarks of a vampire gone feral.†   (source)
  • It blotted out thought and reason, leaving only a feral animal that screamed for release.†   (source)
  • When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the vultures and the feral dogs.†   (source)
  • To his right, Roran glimpsed Mandel hunched over his speckled mare, a feral snarl on his face.†   (source)
  • She drew her lip back from her teeth in an unconsciously feral gesture.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible howl, feral and vicious.†   (source)
  • The feral snarl, coming from my own mouth, was so unexpected that it brought me up short.†   (source)
  • More soldiers shuffled forward, quailing before Roran's feral grin and stabbing spear.†   (source)
  • His spiky black hair stood nearly on end, and a feral snarl disfigured his lips.†   (source)
  • Lady Dustin parted her lips in a thin, feral smile.†   (source)
  • Now her lips curved, just a little, in a smile more feral than amused.†   (source)
  • Yellow, feral eyes wandered from face to face.†   (source)
  • It was a positively feral smile: delighted and anticipatory.†   (source)
  • The princess Periboia held Annabeth by the neck like a feral cat.†   (source)
  • The Demon glared down at David with a feral, murderous rage.†   (source)
  • He started to move toward me with a feral, crouching stride.†   (source)
  • Without his quiet-voiced brother at his back, Marcus seems almost feral.†   (source)
  • Hey, by the way, did anyone kill a feral hog?†   (source)
  • She snarled once, like a feral dog, and then twisted away.†   (source)
  • At her feet blinked a pair of feral yellow eyes.†   (source)
  • The feral self stood dutiful and protective.†   (source)
  • Then on a feral scream, the hawk (lived out of the sky.†   (source)
  • These armed soldiers would never be this scared of a gang of kids, no matter how feral.†   (source)
  • He is simply the observer, a man watching a bird, unaware of the feral cat lurking in the wisteria.†   (source)
  • A feral boar will charge if shot in the testes," answered Mr. Lyford.†   (source)
  • "That's right," said Sebastian with a feral grin.†   (source)
  • A tall, dark woman of some thirty years, she moved with the feral grace of a panther.†   (source)
  • A feral cat was lounging in the doorway, yawning and cleaning its fur.†   (source)
  • The feral pig is an extremely dangerous creature.†   (source)
  • Like all Endarkened Shadowhunters, his motions were blindingly swift, almost feral.†   (source)
  • We can sort of protect your flank, in case the feral pig doubles back around.†   (source)
  • But be safe out there, and do not take the dangers of the feral pig lightly.†   (source)
  • And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt.†   (source)
  • Boys, if you are not serious about hunting the feral pig, then I can just leave you here.†   (source)
  • I decided Meg must be a feral demigod.†   (source)
  • The faces that had seemed so lovely to her were still lovely, yet behind them lurked something vulpine, almost feral.†   (source)
  • As his words registered, Katherine was seized by a horrifying memory: that feral look in his eyes—she had seen it before.†   (source)
  • Pigoons were supposed to be tusk-free, but maybe they were reverting to type now they'd gone feral, a fast-forward process considering their rapid-maturity genes.†   (source)
  • He wore a black ski mask that covered all of his face except his eyes, which shone with feral ferocity.†   (source)
  • He'd left her alone on the porch and returned cradling that feral pup, so chilled it barely drew breath, black and gray and brown in his hands, eyes glittering, feet scuffling against his palm.†   (source)
  • Feral horses, belonging to my grandfather, ran wild over thick banks of water hemlock, and there were more than a few rattlesnakes.†   (source)
  • Last of all the dogs would come sniffing, lean and hungry, the feral pack that was never far behind the khalasar.†   (source)
  • He misses the sound of rain on the zinc roof above his dormer; the feral energy of the orphans; the scratchy singing of Frau Elena as she rocks a baby in the parlor.†   (source)
  • To have assumed I could control them, when they are feral creatures, people used to finding the angle, exploiting the weakness, always needing, whereas I am new to this.†   (source)
  • There was no time to dally in the house's feral yard and reflect upon its malevolent shape—the way the doorless doorway seemed to swallow me as I dove through it, the way the hall's rain-bloated floorboards gave a little beneath my shoes.†   (source)
  • " "There may very well be feral giraffes and feral hippos living in Tokyo and a polar bear living freely in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • I realized that my breath was hissing through my clenched teeth, my lips pulled back in a feral grin.†   (source)
  • I'm guessing a lot more of the same: abandoned towns reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs and cats, pileups that stretch for miles on the highway.†   (source)
  • He had never been feral, so he could not hear the maddening call of that other world, on the mountain, in which he could not be owned, could not be ridden.†   (source)
  • He needed only a drop but half a cc got into the barrel before he could put his thumb above the plunger and even then its insistent, upward force felt to him like some feral thing lunging from its cage.†   (source)
  • "And you're not at all concerned that so many Champions have been brutally murdered at the hands of someone's feral beast?"†   (source)
  • Black blood dripped from the blade, and the lips of Queen Elena were set in a feral snarl as she lifted her sword.†   (source)
  • If Nehemia were truly somehow behind the Champions' murders—and worse, had some feral beast at her command to destroy them—and also just learned about the massacre of her people …. then what better place to punish Adarlan than at the ball, where so many of its royals would be celebrating and unguarded?†   (source)
  • He lunged forward, her hands slipped, and suddenly he was biting her, biting her bare stomach just below the white cotton cups of her bra, digging for her entrails Donna uttered a low, feral cry of pain and shoved with both hands as hard as she could.†   (source)
  • Eve slowed her ground-eating stride briefly and swept her gaze over the huddle of soggy, feral-eyed reporters.†   (source)
  • That realization dredged up every nightmare I'd ever had about glowing blue eyes, white fangs, feral snarls in the darkness.†   (source)
  • The captain showed his teeth in something that might have been intended as a smile though it gave his narrow face a feral look.†   (source)
  • Her feral snarls and the sight of her lunging muzzle, filled with teeth as long as his forearm, sent a jolt of fear through Eragon.†   (source)
  • Musicians struck up some Norse dance tunes that sounded like acoustic death metal performed by feral cats.†   (source)
  • A naked corpse sprawled in the gutter near the Street of Looms, being torn at by a pack of feral dogs, yet no one seemed to care.†   (source)
  • Like Kayla, she had at least half a dozen piercings in each ear, highlighted with a couple of miniature skulls that dangled from her earlobes, and her dark eye shadow and eyeliner gave her an almost feral appearance.†   (source)
  • Mr. Miller's feral grin returns.†   (source)
  • They saw nothing living but a few feral dogs that went slinking away at the sound of their ap, proach.†   (source)
  • Despite the majesty of cold marble and the figure's scholarly robes, the subject had a feral, unkempt appearance.†   (source)
  • Dating a girl whose mom was the goddess of love …. well, Jason was always afraid he'd do something unromantic, and Piper's mom would frown down from Mount Olympus and change him into a feral hog.†   (source)
  • ...as was common to that country where feral cattle the color of candle-wax come up out of the arroyos to feed at night like alien principals.†   (source)
  • Dancers gyrated on the circling floors, lights flashed over their faces, catching expressions, intense, joyful, feral.†   (source)
  • The applause of the Corps, charged with repressed sexuality, was feral and imprisoned and out of control.†   (source)
  • Even as I said the words, I was examining every face we passed, looking for a hint of feral sleekness, a cruel light in the eyes, a hard slash of a mouth.†   (source)
  • Feral dogs had skulked along behind their horses, whilst swollen corpses floated like huge pale water lilies atop the spring-fed pool that gave the town its name.†   (source)
  • Aphrodite's feral smile flattened.†   (source)
  • Now only a few feral sheep were there, he said, strange creatures that were both savage and terrified, and the wells were overbrimming.†   (source)
  • To him, they were feral beasts that would kill him as soon as not and were incapable of love, kindness, or even true intelligence.†   (source)
  • Nadine's smile was thin and feral.†   (source)
  • He was also pleased to see the human-shaped werecat follow after them, the feral, brindle-haired girl swinging her head from side to side as she scented the air.†   (source)
  • With the moon peeking in and out of storm clouds, I get impressions of sour unwashed bodies, tattered clothes, and feral eyes.†   (source)
  • They sent out nightly patrols of men who could see in the dark and who brought back with them a boar, a feral pig, and once even a foolish buck that had followed the nearly dry riverbed far from his home in the mountains.†   (source)
  • Valya's wolfish face was quiet and composed, hardly the frightful mask of feral cunning he'd always associated with her kind.†   (source)
  • A thrill of feral excitement ran through Eragon, and he felt Saphira shiver underneath him at the same time.†   (source)
  • The only creatures who appeared immune to the general lethargy were the lean, half-feral dogs that ranged through the camp, constantly sniffing as they searched for discarded scraps of food.†   (source)
  • The crows had stripped the flesh from the man's face, and a feral dog had burrowed beneath his mail to get at his entrails.†   (source)
  • Blodhgarm's eyes were feral and his teeth were alarmingly sharp as he said, "For the most part, the trees of Du Weldenvarden have needles, not leaves.†   (source)
  • Max did not find the armored ogres strange, or even the wolfish vyes, whose feral eyes gleamed in the firelight.†   (source)
  • As Eragon stepped around the table with Saphira, he paused by the woman-child, caught by her feral eyes.†   (source)
  • Four of the heads had belonged to goblins, two were human, and the last possessed the feral, wolfish face of a vye.†   (source)
  • During that awful period with Ghosh in jail, Almaz holding vigil outside prison, and the Emperor so distrustful of everyone that Lulu had to sniff every morsel of His Majesty's food, my olfactory brain, the feral intelligence, came awake.†   (source)
  • She's like a wounded feral cat.†   (source)
  • The old woman's smile turned feral.†   (source)
  • Prusias's own eyes had widened into feral blue orbs; his small teeth sank into his lower lip and sent blood streaming down into his beard.†   (source)
  • There was a feral grin on her face.†   (source)
  • Beneath a tangle of dark brown hair his face was almost feral, with a wide mouth, sharp nose, and pointed chin.†   (source)
  • lie scanned through ten volumes of Foxfire books for information about the habits and habitat of the feral hog.†   (source)
  • "We're gonna get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?"†   (source)
  • The feral hog shows a remarkable understanding of human speech, especially profane speech," he mumbled, quoting from the book.†   (source)
  • I think I'll take a nap and trust in my brilliant Vulcan companion to let me know if any extremely dangerous feral hogs walk by ."†   (source)
  • Now usually I would say you're gonna have trouble rootin' out a feral pig in the daytime, but it's been a while since we hunted around here, so I think we have an excellent chance.†   (source)
  • He pursed his lips and shook his head sadly, as if he pitied the poor souls who were unwilling to push their bodies to the limit in search of the feral pig.†   (source)
  • Over the next hour, they hardly spoke, because "the feral hog may shy away from the human voice," Mr. Lyford said, as if the feral hog did not shy away from other voices, such as those of Martians.†   (source)
  • Then he Googled "feral pig," from which he learned that wild pigs were so widely disliked that the state of Tennessee pretty much allowed you to shoot one whenever you came across it.†   (source)
  • The day before his inaugural Feral Hog Hunt, Colin Singleton prepared the only way Colin Singleton would: by reading. lie scanned through ten volumes of Foxfire books for information about the habits and habitat of the feral hog.†   (source)
  • A feral hog, some hornets, and a prodigy led me through the woods so that I might stumble upon the first girl I ever kissed riding "TOC like he's a thoroughbred next to the grave of an Austro-Hungarian Archduke.†   (source)
  • One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd.†   (source)
  • It seemed merely to be dull complacency, beside the savagery and feral wit of the Pict.†   (source)
  • The exhortation stopped, and only the feral howling came from the tent, and with it a thudding sound on the earth.†   (source)
  • And the hunger was gone from them, the feral hunger, the gnawing, tearing hunger for land, for water and earth and the good sky over it, for the green thrusting grass, for the swelling roots.†   (source)
  • The greyhound's eyes, catching the candles as she watched him, burned spectrally, two amber cups of feral light.†   (source)
  • Chapter I. Into the Primitive "Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."†   (source)
  • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded[*] forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind), if, while the lofty-crested stag meditates the amorous sport, a couple of puppies, or any other beasts of hostile note, should wander so near the temple of Venus Ferina that the fair hind should shrink from the place, touched with that somewhat, either of fear or frolic, of nicety or skittishness,…†   (source)
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