When he could see again, the moonlight showed him the tawny shape of the tiger as it sprang forward.

A tawny shape with darker stripes flopped to the ground.

A great, feline, tawny shape whose pelt was barred with a savage geometry of bars the colour of burned wood.

He rocked back on his heels as a tawny shape flowed out of the very ground.

Behind him came Sylvester, long and lithe, a tawny shape that seemed to flow smoothly through the air.

The tawny shape bounded back into sight among the boulders on the hillside.

Stretched out in the shadows lay five great tawny shapes, the fire of their grim eyes dimmed for ever.

The pride that al-Salil and his hunters were driving before them, were swift, tawny shapes darting through the patches of saltbush, flitting in and out of the steep-sided wadis that rent the tortured desert ground.

A tawny shape flashed through the starlit air toward the boy, who caught it in his arms.

He must- A tawny shape arched through the air, paws thudding home on Maxim's hunched shoulders.