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• And as the lioness rages when bereft of her sucking whelp, and having found the tracks of his feet, follows the enemy that she sees not; so Hecuba, after she had mingled rage with mourning, not forgetful of her spirit, {but} forgetful of her years, went to Polymnestor, the contriver of this dreadful murder, and demanded an interview; for that it was her wish to show him a concealed treasure left for him to give to her son The Odrysian {king} believes her, and, inured to the love of gain, comes to a secret spot. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
• You're too much of an infernal, sneaky little whelp At the word whelp, he cuffed him with his hammerlike fist, and Miner went down in a heap. —  Wayside Courtships
• The lioness will perish to preserve that very whelp, whom she will rend a year or two hence, meeting the young lion in the forest; the hen, so careful of her callow brood, will peck at them, and buffet them away, directly they are fully fledged; the cow forgets how much she once loved yonder well-grown heifer; and the terrier-bitch fights for a bit of gristle with her own two-year-old, whom she used to nurse so tenderly, and famished her own bowels to feed. —  Heart A Social Novel
• Couldn't you have withdrawn the sunshine of your presence from the hospital half an hour sooner Under her sharp glance there was a curious protective tenderness, the savage concern of a lioness for her whelp; but Eleanor saw only the scoffing expression in the keen eyes, and heard the note of irony in all she said Your going out to the hospital is all foolishness, anyhow," the old lady continued, sorting her papers with efficiency. —  Quin
• There is probably no other civilized country so dog-ridden as this, both in Mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound And curs of low degree Goldsmith, kind man that he was, must have been a capital judge of dogs, like many other poetical gentlemen. —  Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings

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