"It is now hardly a six month since he saved a trapper from a bobcat and killed the animal with a knife.
"Riders of the Silences"
Max Brand
"Did you ever see a horse that was gentle and yet had never been ridden, or his spirit broke, Pierre-" Here Pierre made his leap swift as some bobcat of the northern woods; his hand whipped out as lightning fast as the striking paw of the lynx, and the gun was jerked from the hands of Jack.
"Riders of the Silences"
Max Brand
It makes it safer for me in case Old Man Coyote or Buster Bear or Yowler the bobcat happens to be looking for a Beaver dinner.
"The-Burgess-Animal-Book-for-Children"
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)