5 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIGRISHNESS»
Discover the use of
tigrishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tigrishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 22: ...
The tiger's penchant for wilfully cruel destructiveness had been highlighted by
Voltaire — who had made tigrishness a national characteristic. His French
compatriots were, he complained, 'a nation divided into two species, one of idle
monkeys ...
Miss Elliott has not quite the temperament to give to the character all the
languorous tigrishness of the implacable sensualist, not quite the passion, not
quite the abandonment— but I know no actress, not of Latin extraction, who could
have ...
3
The Ordeal of this Generation
But it is most important to realize that "tigrishness" is not the main danger. The
danger is that from ordinary inertia and reluctance to think hard, and perhaps
also from undue familiarity with evasive formula?, the Governments will all go on
...
4
Around the Lakeland hills
... scaled just about everything in most of the Fell and Rock guides, we had a
tendency towards idleness in the sun rather than tigrishness on the rocks. It was
definitely a Napes or Kern Knotts day, those sun- soaked crags being most
attractive ...
5
The Meerut Universal Magazine
... is really and truly fit for no work but prancing up and down a road a hundred
yards long : so long as he is fat and puisy, so long he may retain a good temper;
but work it out of him, however quietly, and he will show the tigrishness of his
spirit !
