hill-fox

At the same moment was heard the cry of the jay and the bark of the hill-fox.

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Louey Chisholm

'Passing strange is it,' said Deirdre, 'to hear the jay cry and the hill-fox bark while yet the snow lies thick.'

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Louey Chisholm

Then said this woman trusted of the King, 'Wait here by this well until the jay cry and the hill-fox bark.

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Louey Chisholm

The crow of the grouse, the belling of stags, the bark of the hill-fox, the swish of the great wings of the golden eagle, the song of birds, the lilt of running water, the complaining of the wind through the birches -- all these things made music to Deirdrê, to whom all things were dear.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

At the same moment a big hill-fox slunk out of the covert.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

She was followed by a sheep-dog, small and wiry as a hill-fox.

A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

Mr. Bright told my father, by-the-way, that the legend of the fidelity of the dead adventurer's little dog, "who scared the hill-fox and the raven away," was far from being in accordance with the prosaic facts.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

All this while he had seen no four-footed beast, save now and again a hill-fox, and once some outlandish kind of hare; and of fowl but very few: a crow or two, a long-winged hawk, and twice an eagle high up aloft.

Wood Beyond the World William Morris 1865

No man they met on the road, nor did they of Shadowy Vale look to meet any; because the Dusky Men were not great hunters for the more part, except it were of men, and especially of women; and, moreover, these hill-slopes of the mountain-necks led no-whither and were utterly waste and dreary, and there was nought to be seen there but snipes and bitterns and whimbrel and plover, and here and there a hill-fox, or the great erne hanging over the heath on his way to the mountain.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

Though the hill-fox bark at his going, and his path with the bramble be grown. "

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865