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hyena or hyaena Noun a meat-eating doglike mammal of Africa and S Asia [Greek hus hog]
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As was our custom, I went armed with both rifle and revolver; but I stripped and had my swim without further disturbance than the approach of a large hyena, a number of which occupied caves in the sand-stone cliffs north of the camp. When he had withdrawn the shaft from the hyena Tarzan shouldered both carcasses and continued on toward the gulch. But when he saw the Recorder take the hand of the condemned, and raise him, whilst drawing forth the parchment from his pocket, -- when he heard the pardon of the Stadtholder publicly read out, -- then Boxtel was no more like a human being; the rage and malice of the tiger, of the hyena, and of the serpent glistened in his eyes, and vented itself in his yell and his movements. |
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