A horror of any kind was no sooner past than it was straightway forgotten, and the facetious animal would advance with arched back and glaring eyes in defiance of an incursive hen, or twirl in mad hopeless career after its own miserable tail!
"Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines"
R.M. Ballantyne
There is one fact which no one can misunderstand, the while-that after the defections under which you have suffered, and under your known want of military stores, an incursive war from the mountains appears ferocious-both revengeful and cruel-when every one knows that time will render it unnecessary.
"The Hour and the Man An Historical Romance"
Harriet Martineau
Then as a wave more incursive than its predecessor unexpectedly wetted his feet, he would droop his tail and run faster with alarm, until the sight of some bush or bough, left high and dry by the last tide, awakened his nervous suspicions, and dreading an ambuscade, he would stop suddenly and bark at the dreadful object, until we arrived at his side, when, wagging his tail and looking slyly up with his joyous eyes, he would scamper away again as though he would have us believe he had been all the time only in fun.
"The Bushman Life in a New Country"
Edward Wilson Landor