His liking for Christine had certainly not increased, but the charm, on the other hand, of holding a leopardess in leash had not yet palled upon him.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
She was certainly a very beautiful woman, tall, exquisitely formed, lithe and graceful as a leopardess.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
His eyes held her as in a spell, and when, after a moment, the hand fell from her shoulder and his eyes withdrew their mesmeric gaze, the woman shrunk from under the one detaining hand and turned sullenly away, looking like a baffled leopardess.
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch