tiger-wolf

After unloading the cart at the farm, the boys returned for the carcass of the tiger-wolf, as it is sometimes called, and occupied themselves in skinning it during the remainder of the day, when, after dispatching the carrier-pigeon to Rockburg, they retired to rest on their bearskin rugs, to dream of adventures past and future.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The tiger-wolf is another pest that makes great havoc among herds and flocks.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

They were things that might have been half wolf, half tiger; each of them three hundred pounds of incredible ferocity with eyes blazing like yellow fire in their white-fanged tiger-wolf faces.

Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

After unloading the cart at the farm, the boys returned for the carcass of the tiger-wolf, as it is sometimes called, and occupied themselves in skinning it during the remainder of the day, when after dispatching the carrier-pigeon to Rockburg, they retired to rest on their bearskin rugs, to dream of adventures past and future.

Swiss Family Robinson 1882

-- A tiger-wolf broke into the kraal last night, and killed several sheep.

Six Months at the Cape 1859

There they found the dead body of a huge "tiger-wolf" lying doubled up in the entrance, and right under the muzzle of the gun.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

There they found the dead body of a huge "tiger-wolf" lying doubled up in the entrance, and right under the muzzle of the gun.

The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850

He is a native of the southern half of Africa, where he is known among the Dutch colonists as the "tiger-wolf;" while the common hyena is by them simply called "wolf."

The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850

The "tiger-wolf" is a native of Van Diemen's Land, and is strictly confined to that island.

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

In such places it feeds on the smaller species of kangaroos and other marsupials, -- bandicoots, and kangaroo-rats, while even the prickle-covered echidna -- a much more formidable mouthful than any hedgehog -- supplies the tiger-wolf with a portion of its sustenance.

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848