"Hyena" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are torn; for the Bedawi, mischievous and destructive as the Cynocephalus, will neither work nor allow others to work. The 'Ushash or frond-and-reed huts, much like huge birds'-nests, are scattered about in small groups everywhere except near the water. Wherever a collection of bones shows a hyena's lair, the hunters have built a screen of ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... however, I became somewhat hardened to these terrible impressions. The fibres of feeling grew tougher, and habit gave me power to hide what they termed my cowardice. I even felt ashamed of the signs of weakness I showed, and forced my face into the hyena smile which I saw on the faces of my kinsmen. But I could never prevent convulsive shudders from running through my limbs, and the coldness as of death from falling on my heart, at the recollection of these scenes of agony. The women, dragged half-willingly, half by force, under the roof of Roche-Mauprat, ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... Paul calling out, but just then the alarmed culprit could not tell the voice of a boy from that of a hyena. Some one had called upon him to surrender, and the dread word conjured up all sorts ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
... time. It seemed false and feigned to me, like the hypocritical expression of a fear which she did not really feel. Immediately afterwards she exclaimed, making believe cry, though she was not crying, but looking at me with her hyena eyes: ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish • Various
... and that hyena of yours have had all the fun this morning. Some day, maybe, the boot'll ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
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