"Mountain lion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... among the hills of Crete a 10 terrible monster called the Minotaur (m[)i]n'[o]-tor), the like of which has never been seen from that time until now. This creature, it was said, had the body of a man but the face and head of a wild bull and the fierce nature of a mountain lion. The people of Crete would not have killed 15 him if they could; for they thought that the Mighty Folk who lived with Jupiter on the mountain top had sent him among them and that these beings would be angry if anyone should take his life. He was ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... thundered the enraged and fearless kookpi, like a mountain lion in pain. In a moment every bow and arrow fell by ...
— Skookum Chuck Fables - Bits of History, Through the Microscope • Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)
... never noticed them before. Why, she is clawed up some," he admitted. "But I can't say that they haven't been there since I got the safe, which was just before the round-up. Yes, she sure is clawed up some," and he spoke as if some mountain lion had done the damage to his ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker
... mountain lion is our largest representative of the cat family. Early settlers in the Eastern States record the existence of this treacherous beast in their conquest of the forests. The cry of the "painter," as he was called, rang through the dark woods and caused many hearts to quaver and little children ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope
... at the ropes on the prisoner's wrists and the knots were not yet secure. The man had gauged his situation and resigned himself to die like a slaughter-house animal, instead of a mountain lion—in order to save his wife. Now ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... explained. "I am going to take a good tramp. Then I shall come back as hungry as a mountain lion." ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe
... can be; and would a bear or a mountain lion pick up our tracks this way?" continued Bob, who was trying to work his rifle around, so as ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... his eyes on the chickens, proceeded on his way undeterred. Suddenly, a little beyond where he had seen the prairie fowl go to covert, a mountain lion sprang out of the brush and bounded away. Roosevelt ran for his rifle, but he was too ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... approach of the Canadian Pacific railway. Grizzly, black and cinnamon bears are, found in the mountains and wooded districts. The coyote or small wolf, here and there the grey wolf, the fox and the mountain lion (panther) occur. The moose and red deer are found in the wooded regions, and the jumping deer and antelope on the prairies. Wild sheep and goats live in the Rocky Mountains. The lynx, wolverine, porcupine, skunk, hare, squirrel ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
