What metaphors are used in Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey?

In "Florence Nightingale," Strachey uses animal imagery. Nightingale is at one point described, like Manning, as an eagle, but the more important comparison is with a tigress in the jungle. The tigress's victim is Sidney Herbert, and he is presented in the metaphor as a stag, "a comely, gallant creature springing through the forest." The outcome, as with the eagle and the dove, is inevitable: "One has the image of those wide eyes fascinated, suddenly by something feline, something strong; there is a pause, and then the tigress has her claws in the quivering haunches; and then—!"