Crossword-Solution: TIGERISH 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD.

But he was a man of flaming and tigerish temper, and coming to high words with one of them, he caught him by the throat and flung him by accident or design, into the sea.

The men had capitulated to General Urrea.’ “‘Urrea had no right to receive their capitulation.’ Then his mild, handsome face became in a moment malicious and tigerish, and he said with a cruel emphasis: ‘If I ever get Urrea into my hands, I will execute him! I perceive, however, that I have never understood the American character.

Were they, this pair, of the “great world”?—and was he himself, for the moment and thus related to them by his observation, _in_ it? Then there was something in the great world covertly tigerish, which came to him across the lawn and in the charming air as a waft from the jungle.

Against this theory of revenge is the fact that Butler was a malignant ruffian and liar in any case, that, having realised very little in cash by the burglary at Stamper's house, he would not be particular as to where he might get a few shillings more, that he had threatened to do a tigerish deed, and that it is characteristic of his vanity to try to impute to his crime a higher motive than mere greed or necessity.