pantheress

And tossing the bird from her she rose to her feet, lithe as a pantheress.

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

By that time Magi had vanished out of view unaware that any one had seen her, creeping like a pantheress from rock to rock.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

By that time Magi had vanished out of view unaware that any one had seen her, creeping like a pantheress from rock to rock.

The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

As comely and as able-bodied as a young pantheress, she was (one judged) little less dangerous -- as vital, as self-centred, as deadly.

The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Quietly as a pantheress she stole after them, smoothing out her footprints behind her until she reached the trampled snow; and so, coming to the angle of the bachelors 'lodge, cowered listening.

Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The present writer is not very fond of these measurings together of things incommensurable -- these attempts to rank the "light white sea-mew" as superior or inferior to the "sleek black pantheress."

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

Angélique sprang up with a cry of exultation, like a pantheress seizing her prey.

The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

She was at this moment like a pantheress that has brought down her prey and stands over it to rend it in pieces.

The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

Angélique was like an angry pantheress at this moment.

The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

Even the popular authoresses of the day, who are always producing some lovely pantheress in their stories, and making her achieve an endless series of impossible exploits, would not care much about a lovely pantheress in a drawing-room or a country-house; and are not perhaps in the habit of meeting any.

Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860