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Only bobcats have that white -- the tip of a lynx's tail is black all the way around, and above the tip a lynx's tail is a more uniform gray, not striped.
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Negore watched the supple body, bending at the hips as a lynx's body might bend, pliant as a young willow stalk, and, withal, strong as only youth is strong.
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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Only bobcats have that white -- the tip of a lynx's tail is black all the way around, and above the tip a lynx's tail is a more uniform gray, not striped.
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In other words, all you see on both player's lynx's is a pretty much blank screen with nothing but a quarterback and a few rushers ....
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"Then observe, investigate, look with a lynx's eye in both directions: lust and pride. ..."
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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She had no special instincts or intuitions, but her eyes were as keen and observant as a lynx's.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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'Ha! my men,' she begins, 'shew me if [322-355] haply you have seen a sister of mine straying here girt with quiver and a lynx's dappled fell, or pressing with shouts on the track of a foaming boar.'
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Negore watched the supple body, bending at the hips as a lynx's body might bend, pliant as a young willow stalk, and, withal, strong as only youth is strong.
Negore, The Coward 1907
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It was all so boylike, so unexpected there in the heart of the wilderness, that I quite forgot that I wanted the lynx's skin.
Ways of Wood Folk William Joseph Long 1909
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But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it; and the time was to come when the she-wolf, for her gray cub's sake, would venture the left fork, and the lair in the rocks, and the lynx's wrath.
The Gray Cub 1906
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