How To Use Wolfish In A Sentence
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I felt the hungry, wolfish aspect to my gaze, but didn't try to hide it, as it played up and down over Cynthia's body.
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The only disagreeable part of the process was when we came to rub noses with Mahine; and Peterkin afterwards said that when he saw his wolfish eyes glaring so close to his face, he felt much more inclined to _bang_ than to _rub_ his nose.
The Coral Island
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The only disagreeable part of the process was when we came to rub noses with Mahine, and Peterkin afterwards said that when he saw his wolfish eyes glaring so close to his face, he felt much more inclined to _bang_ than to _rub_ his nose.
The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
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Plead not for me, sir," said William Hinkley, glaring upon Stevens with something of that expression which in western parlance is called wolfish, "I scorn and spurn your interference.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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He had lived with wolves and had lived out his own wolfishness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years.
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His grin in the soft red bridge lighting was positively wolfish.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade!
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And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face.
King Lear – review
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_ Doubtless the fraudulent or utterly reckless debtor is, in the eye of reason, the first "wolfish" assailant of his brother.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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After a few minutes he returned with a wolfish smile on his face.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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I am concerned that you are proceeding without healthcare in this wolfish climate.
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Jahson clapped his hands with glee and danced a merry jig while Pablo grinned wolfishly.
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She had often read of smiles being described as wolfish, but this was the first time she had ever seen one.
A Time to Dream
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Looking down at me, Tristan grinned slightly wolfishly as he said, ‘Well, it won't do to have you feeling lonely, now will it.’
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‘I don't know about you two, but I'm starving,’ he said, and grinned wolfishly, which caused us both to laugh.
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Her wolfish tail dragged across the ground like a meek puppy, even though her colorless eyes sparkled with strength.
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I turned back to find the two Hell's Angels looking at me wolfishly.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face.
King Lear – review
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Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Nangi-san was vice-minister of MITI," Sato said with a kind of wolfish smile, "until seven years ago when, as a ronin, he helped found Daimyo and, quite directly of course, Sato Petrochemicals.
The Miko
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_ "In plant-lore 'lupine' means wolfish, and is suggestive of the Evil One.
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
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I've seen him polish off four pounds of steak and mealy potatoes and then look round kind of wolfish, as much as to ask when dinner was going to begin!
Indiscretions of Archie
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Martin shook his head, but he had failed to keep back the wolfish, hungry look that leapt into his eyes at the suggestion of dinner.
Chapter 31
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‘Not if I bite you first,’ he whispered, grinning wolfishly.
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This was done in stacked, shallow raceways, a system that had been used previously with turbot and spotted wolfish, but never with halibut previously.
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The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
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-- Casentino and its woods and streams, Val d'Arno, Val di Tevere, the hills of Perugia, the valleys of Umbria, the lean, wolfish country of the Marche, the rugged mountains of Romagna.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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It was the most terrible war-shriek I had heard: a kind of wolfish baying that called up an image of all the dogs of war simultaneously tugging at their leashes.
Fighting France
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He had handled his Indian scouts and dealt with the "bronco" Indians, the renegades from the tribes, in circumstances of extreme peril; for he had seen the sullen, moody Apaches when they suddenly went crazy with wolfish blood-lust, and in their madness wished to kill whomever was nearest.
The Rough Riders
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wolfish rapacity
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The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look. She couldn't pick worse times.
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Though the outline of the iris was shaded in green, the rest of it was a bright amber, giving him an almost wolfish appearance.
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But it seemed all wrong for the wolfish Nighy who one assumes would reach first base with a woman before the rest of the boys had got their boots on.
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The man grinned wolfishly and whispered, ‘You, me, an empty room, and five minutes.’
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As he watched, a hatch motored open on the forward gunner's cupola and a helmeted visage favored him with a toothy, wolfish grin.
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And so there Miss Johnson sat, rigid with disbelief as two of her least subservient students gazed into her watery eyes and grinned wolfishly beneath little lambskin cloaks.
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She recalled the wolfish gleam that flashed into Bethune's eyes, and the malicious hatred expressed in his insinuations and accusations against these men.
The Gold Girl
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Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
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He grinned wolfishly at her, ‘Why were you so afraid to tell me you're a virgin?’
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Carter gave a wolfish smile, ‘Anyway dude, wish I was in your position.’
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Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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The bigger one, curly-headed and sporting a brown leather jacket over smart trousers, was handsome enough in a wolfish kind of way.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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The wolfish creature padded like a soldier down the hall, its fur bristling and its head held high by its broad chest.
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They walked down the block-long sidewalk, past the warehouse doors and the long teams of waiting huskies curled up in wolfish comfort in the snow.
CHAPTER 6
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He looked very tdridly, like some kind of wolfish grandfather figure.
In Alien Hands
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I already knew that, or thought I did until he added wolfishly: ‘You see, I quite often pray for people to die.’
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‘But where the lobo is and whether it has anything to do with wolfish-ness I do not know,’ Umberto finished.
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Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
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Dressed in khaki trousers, blue T-shirt, trainers, his hair longish, with wolfish grey streaks, he has the slightly matt affectlessness of the off-duty comedian, speaking in mild sentences from which extreme judgments have been carefully excised.
Ben Stiller: 'I never talk to my shrink about comedy'
