The reptile became a sabre-toothed tiger, crouched to spring.
Gambling is about the herd hoping that "someone else" gets caught by the sabre-toothed tiger, leaving more grass for the lucky few.
Fifty thousand years ago adrenaline had helped cavemen flee from the sabre-toothed tiger.
And there leaped into view a figure that no more resembled the youth I had seen, than a sabre-toothed tiger resembles something like-well-Sam.
A sabre-toothed tiger, the kind that had passed from the surface of the earth a million years ago.
I would have preferred the sabre-toothed tiger any day.
Not, mind you, that I've ever heard of sabre-toothed tigers meeting up with wolves but you take my point, I hope.
Horses evolved, as did true cats (such as the famous sabre-toothed tiger).
She would have pushed past anything, a snake, a Rottweiler, a sabre-toothed tiger.
I'd rather go to bed with a sabre-toothed tiger".