"Mountain lion" Quotes from Famous Books
... the air. Isobel looked quickly across towards the far side of the canyon. She could see nothing, but she drew in a deep sigh of relief. The second cry had told her that it was only a mountain lion, over on the other brink ... — Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... member. A wolf pack can attack and kill even the strongest solitary musk-ox, bison or caribou, but the horned herd is invincible. A lynx can pull down and kill a single mountain sheep ram, but even the mountain lion does not care to attack a herd of sheep. It is due solely to the beneficent results of this clear precept, and the law of defensive union, that any baboons are today ... — The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... for the past two days has been in nearly a south-southeast direction, or about parallel with the Wind river mountains. We have to-day seen an abundance of the tracks of elk and bears, and occasionally the track of a mountain lion. ... — The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford
... picture; yet it would have been hard to say which was the more picturesque—the rider or the horse. The latter was a splendid beast, and its spotless hide of snowy white glowed in the rays of the afternoon sun. With bit chains jingling, it gracefully leaped a gully, landing with all the agility of a mountain lion, in ... — Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens
... do find that the remains come to their death at the hands of a mountain lion, but some of us thinks, all the same, ... — The Damned Thing - 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" • Ambrose Bierce |