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Meanings of man-eating tiger in English

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Usage of man-eating tiger in English
1
The lion and even the man-eating tiger, when gorged, are inert and quiet.
Nature's Serial Story
2
Once he has tasted blood he is a human man-eating tiger.
The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
3
He had been relating a thrilling adventure with a man-eating tiger.
Weighed and Wanting
4
But is not a man-eating tiger a something tremendous, you know?
Weighed and Wanting
5
There's never a man-eating tiger around when you need one.
Reuters
6
And after that 'Arry was like a man-eating tiger in his desire for German blood.
Now It Can Be Told
7
The man-eating tiger for the space of a sigh licked his powerful jaws and pondered!
The Elusive Pimpernel
8
That nibble of cheese had been like a drop of human blood to a man-eating tiger.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
9
A man-eating tiger was roaming through Hazaribagh station.
Bengal Dacoits and Tigers
10
I suppose, when you come to think of it, a man-eating tiger feels the same way.
Living Alone
11
Call again, and bring an anaconda, and a man-eating tiger, and he went and scraped up the ice.
Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys
12
Sometimes it was a mugger, sometimes a cobra, a cheetah, often a man-eating tiger that terrorised the countryside.
Son of Power
13
One involuntarily looked for a man-eating tiger at any moment, standing striped and splendid in one of the openings.
Pieces of Eight / Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Di...
14
It was a man-eating tiger-thatis, an old tiger that could no longer run fast enough to catch deer.
Highroads of Geography / Introductory Book: Round the World with...
15
Not of content or satisfied lust, but a sigh such as the man-eating tiger might heave after his first taste of long-coveted blood.
The Elusive Pimpernel
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A man-eating tiger that stalked the hills of central India for more than two years, eluded capture many times and was suspected of k(...)
The Irish Times
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