she-fox

Sometimes far up in the hills a she-fox would bark, or some too-aged tree of the forest would come down with a booming crash.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

"So," he said quietly, "you are the little she-fox that has learned tricks already."

The Flaming Jewel 1899

Any man that would kill a she-fox this time o 'year and let her pups starve to death, he ain't no better than a brute, he ain't.

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

It is now strawberry time again, and again an old she-fox lies in wait for every hen that flies over the chicken-yard fence -- which means another litter of young foxes somewhere here in the ridges.

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

"I 'm sure of it, by the way an old she-fox has pestered my chickens lately."

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

"So," he said quietly, "you are the little she-fox that has learned tricks already."

The Flaming Jewel 1899

"The she-fox does not run to her den where she has left her young, by a track more sure than mine to-night," replied the guide: - "it is the wave striking upon the sand at the head of the inlet: you may see the stars on the water through yonder wood."

Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

Heroism will be gone; and instead of it there will be the savage ferocity of the he-wolf, the brute cunning of the she-fox, the rapacity of the vulture, and the headlong daring of the wild bull; but no longer the cool, calm courage that, for truth's sake, and for love's sake, looks death firmly in the face, and then wheels into line ready to be slain.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

Young cub's flayed, but the she-fox shifting her hole is fled.

The Noble Spanish Soldier Thomas Dekker 1602

Alternately deemed a she-fox, unbridled filly and herd of stampeding cattle, Vance is intent on inheriting the family land-known as the Furies-until her father brings home a new bride and hangs her paramour.

Paste Magazine 2008