| 单词 | vixen |
| 例句 | Where he had once cared for only one boy, he now brimmed with love for this bristling vixen and her ragged brother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His vixen dæmon lay at his feet, her eyes wide open and watching. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “If I am made to get married,” thought the Wart, who had doubts on the subject, “I will marry a girl like this: a kind of golden vixen.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these was a vixen, darker than Bristle and big-bellied with kits. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The vixen swiped at one of the coyotes from above, taunting him, and Pax snapped at the other’s flank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Instantly the vixen lashed at his cheek, although Pax noted she did not use her claws. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A red fox perched on a stump, two dusky kits peeking around the vixens back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Wez surprised a vixen drinking at the stream, and Walder flushed three rabbits from the underbrush and managed to put an arrow in one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This vixen wasn’t such a bad creature after all. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The vixen leaped over them to the ground and disappeared into the juniper scrub ringing the clearing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Old Sela the vixen muttered her charms and spells in a singsong voice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A fox barked nearby—the vixen, I supposed—warning the kits I was coming. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Friendly, he announced to Pax; brother but not littermate of the vixen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The badger’s eyes blazed with contempt as she spun the vixen around. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The vixen poked her pointed snout in to sniff him more closely and bristled again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The injured fox allowed him to brush his neck for an instant, then hurried back to the safety of the vixen’s side. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The vixen bent to lick more dried blood from her sleeping brother’s haunch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Foul death Zeus held in store for me at my coming home; Aigisthos and my vixen cut me down.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The vixen will never welcome you, because you have lived with humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Boatwright’s dæmon fell to the floor and rolled over, and Boatwright was cringing back, trying to hold his dæmon, trying to avoid the deadly white teeth of the vixen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He could hear the vixen’s yips as she scuffled with her attacker, but they sounded more irritated than afraid. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The trim little vixen trotted neatly back to the table and lay down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The vixen paced over, and Pax drew in her scent—as familiar as his own, but also exotic. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You know too much, vixen. You and your son played a dangerous game. Nobody outsmarts Cluny. I’ve won, and you have both lost.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We saw a vixen and her kits playing in a hollow near their den. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The vixen stalked a few steps away and then dropped to the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The vixen stood still, and then backed away a step. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He wants this territory, but his display is for the young vixen’s benefit—she will choose a mate this winter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When he was a dozen yards away, he saw the coyotes’ treed quarry—another fox, bright furred with a sharp and delicate face—a vixen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Curled against him, snoring, was the vixen’s brother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z No. The vixen warned me not to return. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her sense of power was loose and her vixen carefulness abandoned. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The vixen watched Cluny’s eyes closing under the influence of her medicine. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The man was small and wiry and dark-haired, and his dæmon was a vixen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Ah, ’tis your lucky day, yer honor, for don’t I know the very vixen.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, she didn’t really play a vixen, or a self-immolator, or a campy diva. Music Review: She?s Goofing Off, and She Knows What She?s Doing 2011-04-14T07:50:29Z "Archer" may be one of the oddest workplace comedies on TV, but in Malory's universe she's an ageless Golden Age cinema vixen, supreme leader and when the situation calls for it, expert puppeteer. The joy of Jessica Walter's final "Archer" missions before our favorite terrible mother abandons us 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z More recently flaunted a curve-encasing personal wardrobe engineered, it seemed, to evoke any number of pneumatic cartoon vixens. When Comic Books and Catwalks Collide 2010-10-13T21:37:00Z I looked too long on her full, round breast — what visions! — ere the vixen spoke: “My eyes be appear, jerk!” Style Invitational Week 1362: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The museum is jampacked with vintage advertising posters, antique bottles, miniature models of distilleries and paraphernalia, including mid-century decanters shaped like traditionally dressed Dutch matrons, sassy vixens and Uncle Sam. In the Netherlands, a foray into cocktail history 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The video vixen and former stripper went on to marry and divorce rapper Wiz Khalifa, have an adorable child, and parlay her exposure into her own unique pop culture brand. Why Amber Rose’s Slutwalk Was For Everyone — Even Prudes 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z A few years later, she became the cartoon vixen whose milkshake brought all the boys to the yard. Kelis 2010-10-03T21:30:00Z But the friend-free Andrew will have other uses for his obsessive videophilia: to give meaning to his life by filming it, maybe to objective the other kids at school as fantasy villains and vixens. Chronicle: It's Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage 2012-02-02T16:41:05Z In the crowd you’ll find banker types, fashion models and the odd hipster or vixen. 2010-01-29T05:21:00Z Amber Youell, a mezzo-soprano, played Juno as a snarling, whip-cracking dominatrix; Brittany Palmer, a soprano, was a solicitous vixen as Venus. Music Review: ?The Judgment of Paris? by Morningside Opera - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z In a recent fashion feature in The Reporter, she comes off as a steamy, self-obsessed vixen, aptly costumed in form-fitting black leather. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But the press disagreed and she recalled some of the nicknames she was given: Britain’s bad girl, coffee bar vixen, the torrid baggage. Joan Collins Just Gets on With It 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s a miracle that they didn’t fit talking about her past as a stripper and “video vixen” into their stale arguments, but one wonders if they attempted to be nuanced with these ideas. Amber Rose's grilling shows what's wrong with the age of consent 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z She therefore decided to return to acting, on Broadway, as vixen Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's drama The Little Foxes, which she also played at the Victoria Palace theatre, London, in 1982 to mixed reviews. Elizabeth Taylor obituary 2011-03-23T14:01:48Z Female independence has become such a trope that it’s become another role for women to play: independent career woman, independent post-breakup vixen, independent spitfire who doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The forester captures the young vixen and takes her home to amuse his children. The Cunning LIttle Vixen - in pictures 2012-06-06T13:51:36Z There were Cirque du Soleil moves and space vixens, a "Mad Max"-style Argentine tango and a visit to the mile high club. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: America votes, and Tommy Chong is saved 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s one she shares with any number of runway titans casting their models as goth vixens one season, gaunt dust-bowl heroines the next. Up Close: Andrea Mary Marshall, Photographer and Shape-Shifter Pursuing the Unsavory 2013-01-02T21:18:56Z And then he reaches back into the clearing to smack the dark-haired vixen on the behind, and it’s really a party now! Is it hot in here or is it just shirtless Jason Momoa? Scenes from the Vanity Fair Oscar party. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z She is the doom-driven vixen in this modern film noir, where the blinding brightness of the Sunshine State cannot conceal humanity’s darkest impulses. The Paperboy: Down and Dirty with Zac, Matthew and Nicole 2012-10-04T14:30:59Z Florence seems to revel in this dichotomy, making her either the most calculating vixen on the show or oddly detached from reality. "Dancing with the Stars": Bristol Palin, monkey-style 2010-10-19T12:30:00Z Luckily Selma, the next vixen out of the limo, has a tissue tucked into her cleavage to wipe it off. The Bachelor Watch: Sean Lowe Is Back Whether You Like It or Not 2013-01-08T13:30:46Z Unlike the daredevils and vixens of slick Hollywood horror thrillers, these are everyday teenagers. Review: In ‘It Follows,’ a Shape-Shifting Horror Stalks a Teenager 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “We want you to get dolled up to sweat it all off,” reads the “vixen etiquette” on the website. Twerking Their Way to a Sweaty Workout Nirvana 2014-03-12T23:27:10Z By the show’s second episode, the friends become less goofy, more cosmopolitan: Georgia emerges as a vixen, without the comic undertones, and Jo’s life becomes “The Big Bang Theory.” | 'State of Georgia': Conquering the Big City, With an Auntie Mame on Her Side 2011-06-28T22:08:37Z In the Netflix version, Vicious is turned into a petulant man-child with daddy issues and Julia is the vixen trapped in a loveless marriage. The Good, the Bad and the Jazzy: What ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Gets Right and Wrong 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z If “The Edge of Seventeen” were a run-of-the-mill high school melodrama, Krista would be revealed as a selfish, scheming vixen and Darian as an arrogant jerk. Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ Takes Teenage Movies to a Higher Place 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In other scenes as other people, she flops about with the weird violence of a marionette playacting a vixen only to become that sex object after a blood sacrifice. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “S&M” and “Man Down” — the Barbadian pop music vixen is already back with another full length effort, Talk That Talk. Music Monday: Rihanna's Talk That Talk 2011-11-21T09:58:22Z The soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian looked like a mischievous scamp in her vixen costume and sang with dark, rich sound and impetuous spirit. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z But her swift transition from pageant-ready princess to pin-up vixen has left us uncomfortable. 10 pressing observations on the 2014 Billboard Music Awards 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z At that time, the Russian soprano was a vixen in Massenet's "Manon." Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z From start to finish she’s the kittenish vixen whose sexual pliancy hides an iron will. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z A sex vixen fashioned in the image of her rock-star mentor and one-time lover, Prince, Matthews had several provocative hits in the early 1980s as lead singer of the group Vanity 6. Prince Discovery Denise 'Vanity' Matthews Dies Aged 57 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It is a film about finding that one special person who can turn the caterpillar into the butterfly, the wallflower into the vixen. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z And the child soprano Noah Sadik, playing the young vixen, sings tenderly and looks understandably terrified when the forester hoists him over a shoulder, stealing the vixen away. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z I didn’t magically transform into a person who no longer craves sweets, nor did I become some kind of vixen who is irresistible to men. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Even more disturbing is Ms. Page’s transformation from helpful eager beaver to demented vixen whose perky enthusiasm escalates into manical bloodlust. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z Waters’ muse Divine, the drag performer who was transfixing on screen whether playing a criminal vixen or a put-upon suburban mom, passed away in 1988. John Waters gets celebrated in a fancy museum? Stranger things have happened 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z A new study in mice, but with implications for people and published Wednesday in the journal Nature, provides a clearer picture of the cellular glitches that turn us into silver foxes and vixens. Your Hair Is Going Gray. This Glitch May Explain Why. 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Understandably, especially in an area that has robbed wildlife of places to den, nest and burrow, people are upset that a vixen mother with kits has been killed for attacking people. Opinion | Euthanizing the Capitol Hill fox was the kindest choice 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The late vixen’s offspring — known as kits — were found and captured on Wednesday, around the same time their mother was caught. Capitol Fox’s Three Kits Euthanized After Rabies Exposure 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The late vixen’s children — known as kits — were also found on the Capitol grounds and recovered on Wednesday morning, D.C. The Capitol Fox, Euthanized After Attacks, Tests Positive for Rabies 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Ms Buck said: "They're very old for this time of year so we think it's possibly a young vixen who was having child control problems." Fox cub trapped in concrete saved by firefighters 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Biologists said a vixen named Tule, who was tending to at least two pups in the remote Caribou Wilderness of Lassen National Forest, was at particular risk from the raging Dixie fire. Rare Sierra Nevada red foxes survive massive Dixie fire that burned habitat 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Keeping a mother vixen in confinement for a recommended six to 12 months would be hell on her, and the people who were bitten would still have to undergo rabies shots. Opinion | Euthanizing the Capitol Hill fox was the kindest choice 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Video vixen Tawny Kitaen's autopsy and toxicology records have been released. Tawny Kitaen's autopsy and toxicology report findings revealed 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Even now, Tilly feels the pressure to look the vixen: “The fans are so rabid, and she’s such an iconic character that I was like, ‘I really want to look good for Tiffany. Jennifer Tilly wanted to be 'a big movie star.' A life in Hollywood changed that 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Tawny Kitaen's brother is opening up about one of the last conversations he had with the video vixen before her untimely death. Tawny Kitaen's brother encouraged star to strengthen her faith before death: 'She wasn't great by herself' 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z "At my age, I've never had a one-night stand," the video vixen revealed. Tawny Kitaen opened up about dating Harvey Weinstein weeks before her death 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Three teenage vixens begin to age rapidly following the arrival of a Romanian exchange student. Movies on TV this week: 'Pulp Fiction'; 'Goldfinger' and more 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z With a salute from Lycke – “Thank you, my aquatic vixens!” – the women laugh and waive and drift away on their floats, satisfied with their crunchy sandbar feast. Hungry boaters fed aboard Florida floating restaurant 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Turner bought books on screenwriting and in two weeks had a draft of his first screenplay, “Video Girl,” which examined the dark side of ’90s music video vixens. Producer Datari Turner wants to build a pipeline for Black talent in Hollywood 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Goons and vixens would find ways to triumph despite questionable social skills, reminding a lot of younger viewers of their experiences with social media. Want to kick-start the Oscars? Let Tarantino direct the live telecast 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The in-depth interview was released on Tuesday and features the video vixen opening up about her former relationships and flings with other celebrities. Tawny Kitaen opened up about dating Harvey Weinstein weeks before her death 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Then, at the very last moment, she turns to the camera with her vixen’s grin and inform us that we’re about to watch a love story. Smart Watch: George Clooney's "Catch-22" doesn't always land, but "Fleabag" is still sublime 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z He went to check on the vixen, who was killed instantly, but then noticed the movement of cubs inside her belly. Farmer saves fox cubs with Caesarean 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z There are the standard rap video tropes — the vixens, the bling, the homies — but good god is it weird. The finance app Expensify made a video with 2 Chainz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Viper, the vixen of violence, has adoring fans around the world but 26-year-old Kimberley Benson says she has had to fight to overcome stigma about her size. 'People wrote me off because of my size' 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The unifying element is that every woman on screen is either a vixen or a victim. Weak theology, chaste horror and bad filmmaking sink 'But Deliver Us From Evil' 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z A term coined in the West to describe a cunning and mysterious, seductive and dangerous Asian vixen. ‘Dragon Lady’ review: Sara Porkalob takes on a stereotype 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The vixen soprano in Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” isn’t shy about proclaiming her addiction to the dark brew, which she says tastes sweeter than a thousand kisses. null 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Pop vixen Perry recently addressed her long-term feud with Swift and confirmed that she was the subject of Swifty's catty hit song "Bad Blood." With Taylor Swift's music streaming again, is she trying to take down Katy Perry? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The pop vixen has championed GLAAD, teaming up with the organization for a campaign against gay violence in 2014, and accepted the National Equality Award at the Human Rights Campaign gala last month. Katy Perry serves up new single 'Bon Appetit' with a side order of Migos controversy 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Katy Perry is willing to end the bad blood between her and fellow megastar Taylor Swift, that is, under one condition: The pop vixen said she would collaborate with T.S. only if she apologizes. A Katy Perry-Taylor Swift collaboration could happen ... under one condition 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z One looked like a vixen — a sex symbol bursting out of her tiny suit. How Viola Davis shaped her powerful 'Suicide Squad' role 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Julianne saw the “raw” the “rough” vixen with an “element of authenticity.” 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Alexa PenaVega has perfect 'switch-up' night; no one's eliminated 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Q: Of all the video vixens, you remain beautiful. Bobbie Jean Brown, who found fame as a Warrant’s ‘Cherry Pie’ girl, on being a reality TV star and b 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z TLC are three atomic vixens famous for wreaking havoc in studios and on tour buses. TLC's T-Boz: 'A lot of people have made money off of us, and we haven’t' 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The police said there were 16 cubs from at least four different vixens. Police investigate fox cubs video filmed near hunt kennels - BBC News 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The books flaunt a garish brand of feminism, with women characters cast not just as vixens, but also as gangsters — cold-blooded killers, “murder mamas.” Ashley and JaQuavis Coleman: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Take the female fox: the vixen produces very thin milk and must feed her young almost constantly, so she relies on her partner to bring her food while she stays in the den to nurse. Is there a biological basis for the seven-year itch? 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Q: Are you OK being called a “video vixen?” Bobbie Jean Brown, who found fame as a Warrant’s ‘Cherry Pie’ girl, on being a reality TV star and b 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z In life, this mischievous vixen had moved with a limp, making her easy to spot. In London, red foxes are plentiful and right at home 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z "Flirting with death" is how one newspaper story put it, a coy phrase that suggests you're winking at a vixen in scarlet lipstick. Mr. Wallenda, welcome to a city that likes stunts 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z This veggie vixen hopes to have a man and a support system that can deal with that, too. I Don't Want to Marry a Man Who Will Feed Our Kid McDonald's 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z I overheard a middle-aged photographer offer a young model a pro bono “portfolio shoot,” and she rolled vixen eyes. Opinion: Mumbai’s Empty Parlor Games 2014-02-22T19:29:17Z There she shone; but take away Jean out of her world, and Poucette stood forth a vixen. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z And yet what a charming little vixen it was. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z "D'you think, you vixen, that because my neck is in a noose, I want some one to pull the rope tight?" Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "Ay, mice!" she answered with a snap of her teeth--and she looked all over the little vixen she could be. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z "He knows," she said, trembling with anger--the little vixen. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z The law of this mighty country, made by very wise men, and enacted by very great fools, is a wondrous vixen. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z But a woman behind him--a lean vixen, her shoulders barely covered by a meagre kerchief, pushed herself to the front, and snapped her fingers in Tom's face. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z "And shan't we have it about our ears when that vixen has told her tale?" the other cried. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "By heaven, you vixen," he cried in the end, surprise and rage contending in his tone, "I believe you love him still!" Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z "What a dear darling little vixen," he shouted up the stairs. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z To the temple of the vixen Masago, to offer up prayers, of course. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Go, you little vixen," Mrs. Northey continued harshly, "go to your room before I do you a mischief! Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z I tried no longer to bear with my wife—she was a vixen, a mad woman, a very devil. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z About as like as that squinting vixen Villiers is to a beauty! Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Where do you suppose she was? the vixen! Martha or, The Fair at Richmond 2012-01-19T03:00:23.947Z Persons dwelling in regions which slavery has not debased can hardly imagine the malice and ferocity manifested by the rebel vixens of the slave states. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z This little vixen holds me in awe; she has such a way of speaking, such a decided tone! Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Steward, bring the bottles—confound you! what are you standing grinning there at, like a vixen fox? The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Faith! you were a vixen,” and he laughed so heartily that Mrs Adair hurried forward with anxious reminders concerning his clothes. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z I vow, vixen, you are as wanton as a goddess. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z "You little ambitious vixen," he said, in his mellow undertone. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Once in the early spring in the very early morning, I saw a vixen playing with her cubs in the open space below a beech tree. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z "Then you would have me believe," said he, "that my wife is a vixen!" The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z That false vixen, that same dame Chat, that counts herself so honest. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z For she is a foolish vixen--nothing more. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Oh, I was mad as a March fox running his first vixen, in that first tide of romantic love,—clean daft and lacking reason. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z She was still the vixen, however, which her former master had called her. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z "And he kept silent," the advocate went on, "even when his mother died, and he was given a step-mother at thirteen years old—a serpent, a vixen." Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The daughter was on the point of springing into his arms; but I had her very unceremoniously swung on board, calling her an unmanageable vixen. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z My lady--Hanus," said Ladislaus, seizing both of her hands, "is it worth while to take to heart the deed of a foolish vixen? Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Cowper was very angry, and called her 'a rich old vixen.' Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z He would have fought with Redpad while he had a pad left to stand upon, but by the law of the Woods a fox may not attack a vixen in the love season. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z No doubt an old vixen, with no cubs of her own, killed his; the dog fox will not do this. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Could Sir Joshua Reynolds have painted a vixen without giving her a touch of sentiment? Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z How now! art thou mad, bold vixen, to match thyself against me? Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Why was it that down deep in the unexplored caverns of her soul there lurked an infinitesimally tiny feeling of relief that Miss Alice Fern was plainly a vixen? Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z The vixen trotted back slowly to her lair, glancing back now and then over her shoulder and growling softly at the recollection of her recent skirmish and many other things. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Indeed, he will cater for all the cubs of his own get, but a strange vixen is very apt to kill any cubs which have no mother of their own. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z What have you done with that murderous vixen, cousin Cartwright? The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z When the odds are all against you, you give up—do just what a cold-blooded little vixen wants of you. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Mademoiselle, I have already narrated to you the trials which I, the foot-ball of the vixen Fortune, endured in Castle Thunder with my camarade. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z A cunning old vixen from Knockdane came round one evening and hid on the brow of the hill. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z He often gives up his spacious apartments to a vixen in the spring, and submits to eviction. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z If you don't wish to have the whole county set gossiping about Mrs. Mowbray's will—your wife's will I mean,—you had better let me see that vixen properly punished, cousin. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z I wonder if Betty came this way, or if they found her—the little vixen! Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z You saw how the one scream unnerved me, to say nothing of that little vixen grabbing my reins. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z After a gestation of from 60 to 65 days, the vixen during the month of April gives birth to cubs, of which from five to eight usually go to form a litter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z I watched the vixen and the other cubs one evening to see that they were all right, and saw them, but found they had left the earth and were in the covert. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Although Day had done nothing to merit shame, he squirmed inwardly with something not unlike that feeling, and he blessed the general commotion which drowned a vixen's voice. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z "I suppose it is the old excuse the vixen makes?" The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z I may find one who can control this little vixen; and it is really time Rupert began his studies. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z In the care and defence of her young the vixen displays extraordinary solicitude and boldness, altogether losing on such occasions her accustomed timidity and caution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Two vixens lay in at the badgers' earth, and brought up their families of seven and four respectively, till they were about one-third grown. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z I saw the vixen leap down from her charger to join the blacksmith's wife in the leadership of the gang, which followed us pell-mell. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z "The little vixen!" exclaimed Paul, so much off his guard that both mother and daughter started. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z “Confound the vixen!” he once more muttered; “she be gone for certain, and’s tricked me out o’ that kiss.” The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The feminine “vixen” represents the O. Eng. fyxen, due to the change from o to y, and addition of the feminine termination -en, cf. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z A post-mortem examination, as well as the improbability of a vixen with cubs being out in the early part of the day, convinced me that she had not been killed by hounds. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Several vixens, drunk and in tatters, had joined the assassins and echoed their cries of death. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z This resolution was greeted with enthusiastic delight by all present; and the night was far advanced before the squire could part with his "little vixen," and allow her to go to rest. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Angèle is a little vixen, a badly behaved, spoilt child, I fear. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z My nurse comes to me, like an old foxey vixen as she is, and—‘Now, my dear, how are we?’ she says. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z From this time the other vixen and all the cubs left the badgers' earths and remained in the covert. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z This swarthy vixen had added new torments to the unfortunate girl's position, had devised new insults for her, and the end had been Bloomingdale. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z "Did you ever see such another charming little vixen?" he asked, turning to the doctor. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z "The old vixen won't come back to her first hole," said the villager with a coarse laugh, and Bella frowned at him for his inhumanity. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z "Just see the little vixen," he said to himself. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z "Well, for my part," said Charley, "I don't believe in vixens, young or old, but you—you always had a taste for monsters." The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z She told Flurry where a vixen had reared her family, and she watched him ride away, with some biting comments on his mare's hocks screamed after him from the window. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z The old vixen began to howl, and the priest, in his anger, cursed his nephew, telling him that he and his children could starve for all he cared. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z It seemed impossible to do anything with so pronounced a vixen. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Fans fixated on the Heat because they are the new vindictive vixen, or the new insufferable narcissist, or the new unstable paranoid, of the NBA’s island. Ventre: For better or worse, NBA will Heat up 2010-10-22T21:51:00Z Miss Jerusha drew back a step, and interposed a chair between them in salutary dread of the little vixen's claw-like nails. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z With brazen poise and devilish charm, she delivers two completely different but equally irresistible portraits of classic gold-digging vixens. In Canada, Shaw Plays Well With Others 2010-08-19T08:20:00Z A month after the wedding, Radonic, however, went off with his ship, and shortly afterwards his vixen of a mother died, and Milena was then left sole mistress of the house. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Now the vixen knew very well that there would be no more question of the "coming of the Englishy minister" after an announcement like that. Deep Moat Grange “At the way this vixen has slipped through your fingers.” The Little Minister “You vixen!” he cried, savagely, retreating to the door, with a pale cheek and his eyes still on her, for he was an arrant coward. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 Are we to suffer this vixen to carry away such a prize from under our very noses, and to withhold such a paragon of beauty from us under our own roof? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. "So they have; but we can cast it aside," quoth the vixen. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z I may find one who can control this little vixen; and it is really time that Rupert began his studies. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir One creature only did this beautiful vixen love—R. E. J. Miles. Life on the Stage The old vixen, Fausta, has got a new spite against the Empress Valeria, whom all the people of the palace love. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs "Go it, my vixen," he jeered down from his eyrie. A Traitor's Wooing "They've blocked up the place with brambles and thorns," said the vixen. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The little vixen," he said to himself, changing his pose against the great olive for one yet more graceful, "the small fury! The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The young vixen," shouts a laughing voice through the night, "was she aware of her danger? how I could have tamed her, and cowed her and terrified her! The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel I spun the dials and finally concentrated on one announcer—you know who I mean—with the raspiest, most grating voice this side of a vixen file. Cue for Quiet "Simon Brant has tamed vixens worse than you, my lass," he muttered behind his yellow teeth as he swung himself back to his perch. A Traitor's Wooing "There are six of them," said the vixen. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z “Not if you leave that old vixen, Mrs. Crabtree, as governor of the nursery,” answered Major Graham, laughing. Holiday House A Series of Tales But why think of a vixen now, of blue eyes and biting tongues, when the night with unerring hand clothes the landscape with glory. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel It was as though the vampire vixen who haunts the muskeg swamp had suddenly sapped her youth. Seeds of Pine She was a pretty girl with graceful hands; but she was a vixen, and had also a habit of scratching. Toilers of the Sea "I'm afraid the police have got into it," stammered the vixen. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z She had money besides but little good it did her because she was such an ill-tempered vixen that nobody, not even the poorest laborer, would marry her. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Dondersteen! how I could have crushed that sharp-tongued young vixen till she cried for mercy ... or silenced those venomous lips with a kiss!... The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel She is what Cowper called the University of Oxford, "a rich old vixen." Seeds of Pine Gad! what a creature of resource the woman is, and what an actress she would make, the vixen! Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories In the year the war began a silver vixen and her brood were sold for ten thousand dollars. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North As she was returning, and when near the entrance to the fort, she was met by the vixen, furious with rage and disappointment at not having found her. Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution Poor young vixen, with the sharp tongue that knew how to hurt and the blue eyes that could probe a wound like steel! The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Oh! you sweet vixen! but you needn’t pose. A Daughter of the Forest No wonder she cut away to see what was wrong, the vixen! Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories You are breaking your mother's heart, you obstinate vixen. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Now look out for this here vixen,” he continued, dropping suddenly from the plane of sentiment to the prosaic levels, “for she’ll throw you if she can.” Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted The proud little vixen, as he had dubbed her a while ago, was after all but a poor defenceless girl tossed hither and thither just to suit the ambitions of men. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel A cheer went up from every throat; for the little vixen who stood before them had long reigned in the hearts of Drury Lane and the habitu�s of the King’s House. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time Gad! if I’d only been here before the vixen slipped the leash—if I only had! Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories She turned out a regular scold; a perfect vixen, who was ever at his heels, distorting his most harmless acts, and starting a new jealousy every day. Jena or Sedan? HE—I told you you were the most tormenting little vixen on earth. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories If I loved you, little vixen," he once murmured apostrophizing the elusive vision which lightened the darkness around him, "if I loved you, I would break my word to that dastard who is your brother ... The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel “The vixen would not stop for asking,” declared Portsmouth, almost fiercely. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time And no sooner is the vixen set at large than—presto!—away she goes, bag and baggage, out of the country, and not a man in England has seen hide nor hair of her since. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories The strong, small hand of the beautiful vixen struck into the red cheeks of the Indian with no slight effect. The Grandee Ah! how often hath she cast a jealous Eye on some Heifer! and cried out, Why should that vixen please my Love? The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love When Miss Kitty Cat came to the farmhouse to live she soon showed old dog Spot that she could fight like a vixen. The Tale of Old Dog Spot Buckingham did not relish the scene; but he was clever enough to humour the vixen, both from fear of her tongue and from hope of favours as well as words from her rosy lips. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time I saw Catarinet … that little vixen … with her nose in the air … who slept alone in the barn…. Letters from my Windmill I hope he’s married a vixen who’ll lead him an awful dance. The Phantom Lover "She seems to be rather a little vixen," he said to himself, as he strolled up to his rooms to make some change in his clothes, which were damper than he liked. Name and Fame A Novel "Now, out with it, you little vixen!" he commanded, assuming his brutal side. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The vixen had fallen unconsciously into imitating again the Duchess’s foreign ways, as an accompaniment even for her thoughts. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time She was a chic little vixen in a 217 fantastic costume of black velvet with a jacket of blush pink. The Gorgeous Girl Coarse files, vixen, round, and flat, for filing lead parts. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair But, there, I suppose that little vixen Alice arranged it all. The Hound From The North They came to a little thicket, and a vixen popped out. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales “Pay for them, in sooth,” promptly replied the vixen. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time The only thing was to make Beatrice pay a larger commission on the things for her new tea house so that he could pay for this red-haired vixen’s ring. The Gorgeous Girl "It's none of my business," Trego volunteered with some heat, "but I'd like to know what that vicious old vixen found to say to upset you this way." Nobody Send the vixen packing, bag and baggage, with a boxed ear for a parting present, as she might have done with all propriety? Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 “You little vixen,” he exclaimed with an oath, “what have you got there?” Nan of Music Mountain “I defy thee, Sire, and all thy imps of Satan,” laughed the vixen, as she watched the King sheathe his jewelled sword. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time But this would not in the least dim the red-haired vixen’s triumph, which was the issue at stake. The Gorgeous Girl But it couldn’t last, and he knew it, although those looking on began to have hopes that he would tire the vixen out. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana The vixen preferred to hide in the brambles to leeward of a burrow till an unsuspecting rabbit crept out into the open. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Of course, when I heard her voice, I was upstairs two steps at a time, with the cat under my arm clawing like a vixen. The Crevice Her answer surprised Hanscom and dazed the sheriff, who exclaimed beneath his breath, "The little vixen!" They of the High Trails Down in the deep the stool descends, But here, at first, we miss our ends; She mounts again, and rages more Than ever vixen did before. Bygone Punishments Bad cess to you, you vixen—what made me bet on you? The Macdermots of Ballycloran The succeeding years of Vulp's eventful life were in many respects similar to the year that began with his courtship of the sleek young vixen in the white wilderness of the winter fields. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain But the man who had borrowed the little vixen wife began to feel scorn of her after he had lived with her a little while. Eskimo Folk-Tales “Earths are drawn.”—When a vixen fox has drawn out fresh earth, it is a proof she intends to lay up her cubs there. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid That little vixen, Fluff, is right—she's in love with the fellow, and she's throwing herself at his head; it's perfectly awful to think of it. Frances Kane's Fortune “The cobbler’s got a vixen of a wife,” complained Maudlin at length. Rose O'Paradise Then I hear a sudden wail, that echoes from hillside to hillside, as the vixen calls to Vulp: “The night is white; man is asleep; I hunt alone!” Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain There was once a man who wished to have a wife unlike all other wives, and so he caught a little fox, a vixen, and took it home to his tent. Eskimo Folk-Tales Laid up.—When a vixen fox has had cubs she is said to have laid up. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid "So that treacherous old vixen of a Court Godmother had betrayed the secret after all, in spite of her promise!" concluded Queen Selina. In Brief Authority Analyze the forms what, her, its, vixen, spinster, gander, drake. A Handbook of the English Language Lying one evening in the doorway, she heard the vixen, followed by the young foxes, creeping stealthily from the den. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain But when the little vixen noticed this she was very angry, for it was her great desire to be well thought of by the men. Eskimo Folk-Tales In the medieval mystery plays, Noah’s wife was always represented as a scolding vixen. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford The vixen took hold of one of her arms and then the other, raising them and swaying them about. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Knickerbocker.I shall never be able to come again—the cross vixen will take care of that if she catches me here. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle On several occasions, the vixen led forth her cubs long before the badgers came in view, and while the light yet lingered on the crests of the neighbouring hills. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "Stand up, you vixen! stand up, or it shall be the worse for you," he cried. Folk-lore and Legends: German Then one day an anonymous letter came to her—signed 'Your Well-Wisher,' which corroborated her own uneasy thoughts—suggesting coarsely that her husband was chasing a vixen—not a fox. Border Ghost Stories Yes," said Berry, "my vixen and I have spent a delightful morning. Jonah and Co. And what will you do, dear little vixen? The Jealousy of le Barbouillé (La Jalousie du Barbouillé) Thus, while the vixen “lay up” near a warren, Vulp skirted the copse and chased the conies home towards his waiting spouse. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The old vixen has soon come to her senses. With Haig on the Somme Just imagine a child of fifteen subjected to the veriest vixen in the country. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 The little vixen is just preparing us—see if I ain't right! Where the Souls of Men are Calling What fools her suitors are, their hearts to fix on So termagant and bloodthirsty a vixen! Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx Next night, stiff and sore from her wounds, she crawled out into the wood, and Vulp and his vixen put an end to her misery long before the badgers ventured from their lair. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "We haven't seen the end of that vixen and her husband." With Haig on the Somme “She might as well ’a’ said ‘Huldy,’” whimpered the vixen, plucking at her lip and hurrying back, head down, to her own cabin. Judith of the Cumberlands And I wonder if you will recognise in the poor little bedraggled vixen that I now am, the gay lady dryad with whom you walked that day in the forest when we met the witch. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance “I get a kiss for that, you vixen.” The Fighting Edge By the end of February, there were cubs in the vixen's den, and both the wood-mice and the rabbits were diligently preparing for important family events. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Jacob conceded that the goat was an extremely fine animal, but she was a vixen, he was sure,—he could tell that by her eyelids. Lisbeth Longfrock As for me, so under the spell of that voice have I always been, that I swear I thought her hardly used—the darling vixen! Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Lee Virginia turned, and was about to greet the woman as an old acquaintance when something bold and vulgar in the complaining vixen’s face checked the impulse. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West "Bless my soul!" cried the Squire; "it's a vixen, after all." Vixen, Volume I. This, in fact, was the first lesson learned—that a certain sign from the vixen meant “No,” and that disobedience was afterwards punishable according to the unwritten laws of woodland life. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Why did I let it out, and make him think me a vixen? Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster One critic, a lady-critic too, whose name I will be so merciful as to suppress, treats Isabella as a coarse vixen. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Doctor Heath will think me a vixen, and why not? The Diamond Coterie The Squire had all his life been a staunch preserver, thinking more of a vixen with her young cubs than he would of any lady in the land with her first-born son. Ralph the Heir But the vixen in fury drove the cub away; the scent still clung to him, and rendered him obnoxious even to his mother. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain ‘Little vixen,’ he said, half laughing; ‘but I was thankful to her for neither kicking nor struggling!’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster The old vixen drank up part of the water, and turning the remainder into a thick fog, hastened along in her trough. Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen The Grasshopper, extremely dry, And, finding she had hit the key That gain’d applause, approach’d with glee; At which the Owl upon her flew, And quick the trembling vixen slew. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes The soprano was incessantly quarrelling with her colleagues, and the alto was an intriguing vixen quite without talent. The Goose Man Presently, happening to glance behind along the line of the trail, Vulp caught sight of another fox, a rival for the vixen's affections, crouching in some bracken scarcely a dozen yards away. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain ‘She is all kindness and forgiveness, and what can it be but my old vixen spirit that makes this hard to bear?’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster How loathsome was the King's subjection to the abandoned vixen, my Lady Castlemaine! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 "The bloody vixen is ne'er satisfied," said an old gossip, whose nose and chin had been gradually getting into closer fellowship for at least a long score of winters. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 "It seems she has determined otherwise—the vixen; and a likely lad, too, as I remember him," says Jack, shaking his head. The Honourable Mr. Tawnish At the end of the path she paused, with head bent low and hackles ruffled along the spine—the scent of another vixen lay fresh on the ground. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "By the great Mother," said Dea Flavia coldly, "will no one here rid me of this screaming vixen?" "Unto Caesar" You attack in the open, like an honest vixen. Still Jim I took her with me to Tuscany—stole her from an old vixen of a fortune-teller. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle Oh! when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd; She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she is but little she is fierce. Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' The strange vixen was soon to become a mother, and probably, in anticipation of the event, inhabited an “earth” close by. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Oh, those who do not see the vixen in that pretty face of hers, have not such good eyes as she has herself. Deerbrook The lady, in her living hours, Was the most charming vixen That ever this poor sex of ours Delighted to play tricks on. The Book of Humorous Verse They are often perfect little vixens with their masters, but an old mountaineer, who has ridden them for twenty years, told me that he never knew one to be skittish with a woman. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 There is some amusement in deceiving our Lady, and one doesn’t feel it wrong, because she is such a vixen; but there would be no fun in taking in the Queen, she’s too good.” A Forgotten Hero Not for Him My eyes, however, were not sufficiently trained to detect any sure evidence of the recent movements of the vixen and her cubs. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The steward’s heart smote him as he said this, but he forgave himself on the plea that the vixen brought it all upon herself. The Billow and the Rock "Little vixen, had you done otherwise I had devoted you to the devil." Chivalry The vixen falls into a hole which she does not see, so bent is she on controverting her husband. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore "You vixen!" he cried, retreating to the door, with a pale cheek and his eyes still on her, for he was an arrant coward. In Kings' Byways I had scarcely settled down to watch and listen, when the faint snap of a twig reached my ears, and I saw that the vixen with her cubs had arrived on the scene. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain On the hills beyond the river the dog-fox barked with constancy, his vixen screeching like a child—signs of storm that no one dare gainsay. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn He began to fear that that much bepraised dame was something of a vixen after all. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Good little chap, my host—didn't like to tell me I'd made a mistake; but his wife's a downright vixen. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 The young vixen was an acute observer, and, had she not been cruelly neglected, might have been a sensible child. The Barbadoes Girl A Tale for Young People Sometimes the vixen bounded gaily about the edge of the gorse, stooping again and again to snap with pretended rage at one or another of her offspring. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Do you suppose that ugly old vixen yonder doesn't know how to handle the one she's carrying? The Talking Leaves An Indian Story "I like 'em saucy, I own, but this girl's a regular vixen!" Kate Coventry An Autobiography The woman has a shrewish temper; she is a very vixen, and will lead you the life of a dog if you marry her.” The Norsemen in the West With the intuitive sharpness of an Eastern mind she observed the fact, and with the native acuteness of a scheming little vixen, she guessed that something might turn up. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale With every mothering instinct quickened, the vixen crept down the slanting passages in the direction of a faint moonlight glimmer beyond. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain So she is, the vixen, the miserable gossip! The Black Cross These movements were not made in silence: for the falcons, as they flew, kept uttering their shrill cries—that sounded like the voice of a pair of angry vixens. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" You set him on, you little saucy vixen! The Armourer's Prentices I do not say nearer; for when I left, the fair vixen still held him at arm’s length. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess That night and the following day were spent in drowsy imprisonment, till, towards the afternoon, the vixen began to feel the pangs of thirst and made fresh efforts to escape. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain However, I'm no bargain and she's one-third wildcat, one-third vixen, and one-third cobra. The Galaxy Primes I thought I had, but when I went to see her with the certain intention of deceiving her and backing out gracefully,—that vixen Carmencita was drawing me so strongly!—I found Violetta quite tranquil. Man and Maid Worse yet—what could the little vixen mean?—a bright light, flashed across her decks, showed gathering round her guns a swift-moving band of men. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. As for you and me, McDonnell, this business is like to settle scores between our houses and the vixen—” “Stay, Captain Desmond,” said Ludar, interposing suddenly betwixt me and this blasphemer. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess As soon as she heard the blackbird's warning, the vixen vanished; but, presently reappearing, she trotted across the open space and sat beneath the thorns. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain And if you're looking for the vixen's room, it's where you bunked before. Police Your Planet Was she vixen or fool, this fair snake woman with the beautiful face, for whose smile the officers risked death and disgrace? Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom This was to him a grand discovery, for, in anticipation, cubs and vixen were already his. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Politeness, even a largely-interpreted "chivalry", required nothing more than he had already done; he had quitted her, the other year, without telling her that she was a vixen, and that reticence was chivalrous enough. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The vixen growled, and, picking up her prey, carried it to the bramble-clump. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain His eyes darted up and met those of the blonde vixen! Police Your Planet The Prince did this and instantly two foxes, a vixen and a cub, came trotting out of the woods and when they reached the Prince they changed back to mare and foal. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales "God's blood," he bellowed at the room; "take this vixen out and search the place." By What Authority? "And you were set down at once as a vixen!" The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Presently, having succeeded in arousing their inborn passion for flesh, the vixen resorted to a neighbouring mound, and left her offspring in possession of the dead animal, on which they immediately pounced, tooth and nail. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain They say she was a virago, a vixen and a shrew, Who scolded poor old Socrates until the air was blue. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Small in stature, with florid complexion, wide cheek bones that gave her face a triangular form, she had the eye and look of a well-trained vixen. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer But my vixen of a wife has got scent of the affair and thus made it difficult for me to go. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan A bad-tempered woman is described as a "vixen," or female fox; a lazy person as a "drone," or the bee which does no work. Stories That Words Tell Us The vixen proved to be an untiring teacher, and the education of the cubs occupied a part, at least, of every night. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Men would have been satisfied to let me follow them along or march in front of them, provided I went fast enough to suit them, but those vixens hardly treated me as human. Caves of Terror You had better hush up, little vixen," replied the man, "or I'll take the very clothes from off your back. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside As for my old vixen, she wouldn't let as much fall from her mug in the course of a century, I'll warrant! Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan He, poor man, has a vixen for a wife. The Growth of English Drama The vixen, however, was not daunted by the unpleasant memory of any such adventure; having chanced to see a weasel in the act of killing a vole, she had recognised a rival and acted accordingly. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain We could not continue the ferriage while this little vixen remained, for one well-directed shot would have sent either of the boats to the bottom. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War The little blonde vixen, as Siegfried had called her, went up the ladder, throwing me a haughty glance because I had the impertinence to watch her movements. Dr. Dumany's Wife Wife.—What! so he means to come and tell me that he has been performing his devotions? and then into the bargain to talk about "things the old vixen would never have let drop"! Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan "If I knew there were but one fox in a county, and I got upon that one fox, I would like to kill that one fox,—barring a vixen in March." Phineas Redux The vixen possessed, perhaps, a slightly more delicate sense of smell than the fox. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain She has become most desirable, and I like her better than her little vixen of a daughter. A Mummer's Tale She is a little vixen, and full of mischief. Dr. Dumany's Wife "What a vixen you are!" he observed presently with grudging respect. The Miller Of Old Church "You little vixen!" cried Cousin Jack, as, unheeding the water, he grasped her right arm. Marjorie at Seacote One starlit night, when in early winter the snow lay thick on the ground, Vulp heard the hunting call of a vixen prowling through the pines. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain A vixen in cub never went away like that yet. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Ah, that I do: I mind digging out an old vixen up there, when 'er 'ad gone to earth, and the 'ounds with their tails up a-hollering like music. Leaves from a Field Note-Book The humour of this struck him, and he remarked rather grimly: "Good God, Molly, what a vixen you are!" The Miller Of Old Church Do you think I'd a let her frighten you this way—the vixen—I'd a knocked her through the window as soon as look at her. The House by the Church-Yard Re-entering the covert, he was met by a prowling vixen that, in company with her four young cubs, inhabited an “earth” not many yards away. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain If she were less than the spiteful little Tory vixen that she is, she would have been content to let it rest so. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady No, because she is dead and gone long ago, and my father married again, and brought a vixen, with two trollops of girls, to take the place of an angel. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life What a little vixen she was, to be sure! What Timmy Did "You're wrapping it up nicely, but we both know that I'm a vixen when I get angry," she said quietly. The Sheriff's Son In preparing the “breeding earth,” Vulp and the vixen observed the utmost care in order that its whereabouts should not be discovered. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain And as he was walking he met a fox, a vixen, a very pretty young thing, gay and giddy like all girls. Old Peter's Russian Tales "Have it thy way, then, vixen," he exclaimed; "but remember, I hold a heavy hand above thy head and Hotep's!" The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Your meek but lovely heroine at the beginning has been transformed into a beautiful vixen as you near the end, and is quite unrecognizable. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." "Yes, and a vixen with her tongue when she gets started, for all her prim looks," added a fifth. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Nature had brought about a separation; in the company of an adult fox, whose scent lay also on the woodland path, the vixen had departed from her haunts. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain She was a clean, cold, pale, and selfish little vixen, whose dresses were never rumpled, and whose temper was never ruffled. The Bread-winners A Social Study This vixen was closely related to the red fox to whom this cave had formerly belonged. Jan A Dog and a Romance It served you just right to have the little vixen trample them under foot. The Northern Light "I don't want to hear nothing about that misbegot vixen." The Torch and Other Tales The vixen met a similar fate, while the sleek, furry little cubs, treated with the utmost gentleness, were wrapped together in the Master's handkerchief and given to the care of an attendant. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "Because she was a vixen, or because you called her Duchess?" said my Lady Betty, with her malicious little air. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality The black-and-gray pup snarled furiously, and the vixen leaped backward on the instant. Jan A Dog and a Romance But the cunning vixen caught me in my own trap. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution Who'd have thought any man would go soft over such a vixen? Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. The vixen and her cubs were carried away, and found a new home in an artificial “earth” prepared for their reception near a distant mansion. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "All her days I have known her, and it came back to me how, when she was but a vixen of twelve we dubbed her Duchess, and, ecod! the water came into my eyes!" His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality The vixen promptly broke its neck with one snap of her powerful jaws and dragged the little creature out into the sunshine. Jan A Dog and a Romance I saw a vixen and her cubs there one morning as clearly as I see this paper. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary He had also seen a vixen and three cubs on North Hill at five o'clock in the morning of the preceding day. The Spinners The fox endured his ill-treatment with the submission of a Stoic—he happened to be the pugnacious vixen's mate, and the sire of her family. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "He is well enough, but his lady—Lord! but they tell that she was a vixen before her marriage a few years gone!" His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality But the puppy was quite powerless to put on the brake, so to say, and his progress down the slope was therefore far more rapid than that of the vixen. Jan A Dog and a Romance The avenging little vixen had put a big spoke in the wheel, although there were other powerful agencies that had no small part in bringing light to the aching and devout heart. The Tragedy of St. Helena In the trial scene, no less than in the scenes of altercation with Brachiano and Flamineo, Webster clearly intended her to pass for a magnificent vixen, a beautiful and queenly termagant. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series You wilful, wicked, underhand little vixen, what will your Aunt Bridget say? The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Down in the deep the stool descends, But here, at first, we miss our ends, She mounts again, and rages more Than ever vixen did before. From John O'Groats to Land's End The vixen was still well within sight from Desdemona's cave when her time came. Jan A Dog and a Romance Oh! you abominable little vixen! is that you: Do you dare! The Missing Bride Third and last, the pitiless vixen, the thorough Satanist, whom I perceived yesterday. Là-bas This child came to school with the character of a wilful, wicked little vixen, and she has not belied her character. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill "The vixen," he muttered as soon as he found himself in the street. The Sorcery Club Outside the cave, in the sunshine, the vixen was sniffing and nosing at the body of the puppy she had killed. Jan A Dog and a Romance "Answer me, you little vixen!—what does all this mean?" The Missing Bride Mr. Nutt ingeniously suggests that Southey heard the story told of an old vixen, and mistook the rustic name of a female fox for the metaphorical application to women of fox-like temper. More English Fairy Tales "Mary O'Neill, you wilful, underhand little vixen, whatever are you doing with the milk?" The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill The simpleton yielded, but instead of the friendly touch and smell, the vixen fastened on to the poor fellow's gnomon, and disfigured him for life. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before Here it seemed he must pay the ultimate penalty of his unheard-of temerity, and be despatched by the now thoroughly angered vixen at her leisure. Jan A Dog and a Romance I don't wonder they fight shy of you; you'd be a handful, my vixen, for any man to tame. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Of course, I'm a vixen—I always was. The Marriage of William Ashe You wilful little vixen, do you think you can trifle with me? The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill The second clipped a lock of hair from over the vixen's ear. With Links of Steel The vixen leaped warily and doubled with real agility. Jan A Dog and a Romance "You vixen!" he said, with a laugh, and caught the girl by the wrist. Gordon Keith For the vixens who are vixens of the highest quality, are always deliberate. The End of the World A Love Story These remain in vixen and spinster, though both words have lost their original meanings. An English Grammar Not until Nick heard the stone door forcibly closed, and its iron bolts shot violently into their sockets, did he pay serious attention to Cervera, the venomous Spanish vixen left to guard him. With Links of Steel He was one day leading him through the streets, and had his hands full to keep clear of the little vixen, who had torn his clothes half off him. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him "What a vixen of an old woman!" whispered the proprietor of the "Haute Noblesse" to his son, as they seated themselves on the hard wooden bench near the window. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories The vixen is now at peace, though perhaps it would scarcely be safe to wander too near the close-shaven mead where the keeper is occupied more and more every day with his pheasant-hatching. The Amateur Poacher The word vixen was once used as the feminine of fox by the Southern-English. An English Grammar "Now will I go straightway to Telemachus," answered Odysseus fiercely, "yonder where he sits, and tell him what thou sayest, thou vixen, that he may hew thee in pieces on the spot." Stories from the Odyssey Only rarely was there any flash in his letters, as when he said, "Dear Mother—you know you are a vixen, but save me some champagne." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Only yesterday I found a letter from Mrs. Saxburn—that red-haired vixen he brought home to tea when there wasn't money in the house to buy bread. The Dark House "Whoa, Nip," she cried, and cut the vixen lightly between the ears. The Rim of the Desert I don't see why I should be called to look after a woman with the temper of a vixen that wants to be a spoiled darling. Women of the Country She was a bit of a vixen, but the husband was a good old sort. The Wild Olive Antonym: host. vitiate, v. debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil. vitiation, n. debasement, corruption, demoralization, depravation, contamination. vixen, n. virago, scold, shrew, termagant, Tartar, Xantippe, spitfire. voice, n. utterance, speech; vote, choice, election, suffrage. Putnam's Word Book And now that we have done so completely with the fox," said a voice, "what say you, comrades, to our making equal despatch with the vixen and her cub? The Thirsty Sword "You mean," she said quickly, "this vixen did hurt you yesterday more than you would admit?" The Rim of the Desert F. "I dare you to lay your hands on me, you vixen." Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Her aunt was a vixen, her home a rigorous prison. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 Contrariwise, it is when a woman will not fight that she can talk best, as one may see in any congress of two angry vixens. Red Axe I heard you tell of how you meant to slay the vixen and her cubs. The Thirsty Sword I saw you were hurt—the vixen meant to hurt—and I knew I could manage Tuck. The Rim of the Desert Moini, the first, according to date, was a vixen of forty years, of royal blood, like her colleagues. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen It will be our fault if we don't find the vixen!' The Castle Inn If she get out of my way, I will do some noble mischief to the vixen girl whom she most loves, and then quit the kingdom for ever. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 He did not guess that the "fox" meant his own father, and the "vixen and her cub" his mother and Alpin. The Thirsty Sword It happened after you saw him, on that trip to Wenatchee, while he was leading the vixen over a break in the road. The Rim of the Desert This result would particularly suit the ferocious temperament of that vixen. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen “Little vixen, had you done otherwise I would have devoted you to the devil.” Chivalry Oh, a bad old vixen, that seaplane of his! The Soul of the War "He that knows better how to tame a vixen or to cozen a pack of gulls, now let him speak!" and said no more until they passed by Chipping Barnet. Master Skylark Be the execrations of her vixen friend likewise remembered, poured out upon me from her representations, and thereby made her own execrations! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Freddy—I'm married to a proper vixen, I fancy; but to twenty thousand pounds. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Dear Sir, you remember, when Herod of Jewry Had given a ball, how a shocking old fury Demanded, so bent was the vixen on slaughter. Poems (1828) Only one vixen survived at the end of last season, though another one has turned up since. A Cotswold Village ‘Go, then, you vixen!’ he said; but the instant he released my hand he had the audacity to put his arm round my neck, and kiss me. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Which this letter of the vixen girl's, I hope thou wilt allow, warrants me to try for. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 For a man to dream of a bald-headed woman, insures him to have a vixen for wife. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition "We don't scare worth a cent," she snapped, with the virulence of a vixen. Within the Law About half way through the passage a little chamber should be made, to tempt a vixen to lay up her cubs there. A Cotswold Village Did I tell you we had a little captive fox,—the most engaging of little vixens? Life and Letters of Robert Browning I doubt not but poor Hickman would fare the better with this vixen, if her mother were as heartily against him, as she is for him. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 What an opportunity to indulge her vixen nature! Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there "You vixen!" said Mr. Ramage, speaking the simplest first thought of his heart. Ann Veronica, a modern love story But the old vixen kept her larder near her old quarters, instead of burying her supplies for a rainy day close to the hole where she had her cubs. A Cotswold Village You are charming and clever, but I rather suspect you of being a vixen. The Shuttle ‘D’ ye think I want to die, ye vixen?’ he shouted. Lay Morals "It's a poor tale," said Mrs. Morel, "that you're so ready to side with any snipey vixen who likes to come telling tales against your own children." Sons and Lovers And the youngest is something of a vixen. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories The vixen happened to be a very little one. A Cotswold Village You set him on, you little saucy vixen! The Armourer's Prentices It is easy for me to perceive, that my charmer is more sullen when she receives, and has perused, a letter from that vixen, than at other times. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 What a fortunate thing it is that that vixen Feng has no idea of letters and can't boast of much culture! Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books This is a cunning vixen, who has made quite a name in this establishment! Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Talking of hunting and foxes reminds me that a short time ago I went to investigate an earth to see if a vixen was laid down there. A Cotswold Village The vixen is at length driven out, and caught at the mouth of the hole; and the young ones are suffered to rush in, and worry or destroy their first prey. The Dog If you should make a match with her, she is a very likely creature, though a vixen, as you say. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 "What dreadful vixens both of you are!" she shouted. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books You will make me acknowledge your power every day, dear little vixen! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 How did she know but that the little vixen had a revolver with her, and might have shot her?' A Woman Intervenes Leave this lady to me; I know how to manage these feminine vixens. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 Twenty years ago he had spent a night with a middle-aged ugly vixen in Soleure, when he had imagined himself to be possessing a beautiful young woman whom he adored. Casanova's Homecoming Yes," she said, "this vixen Feng has, in real truth, developed a meaner tongue than ever! Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books "What has that vixen been saying to you?" he asked. In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories In the course of our late journey, I had managed to become the possessor of a very untractable mule--a perfect vixen--and her I had turned over to my Spaniard. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources To my amazement the creature was transformed into a vixen. Ruggles of Red Gap I helped the man who drew her up to clean the slime and mud from them, and the vixen glared at me all the time, as though she thirsted to take vengeance upon us all. Eleanor Mrs. Goodall was a large woman with smooth-parted hair, a common, obstinate woman, who had spoiled her four lads and her one vixen of a married daughter. England, My England "I wonder what that vixen has said to her," he thought, as he turned in for the night. In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories But the little vixen would not consent to be naught any smallest while. There & Back The old gardener, stupid as he was, Forester thought an agreeable companion, compared with his insolent son and his vixen daughter. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Words ran high; and so high at last, that the gentleman finished by swearing that he would sooner marry the devil than such a vixen! Tales and Novels — Volume 02 So there was high tea in Princes Street when Harry came home black from work, and a rather acrid odour of cordiality, the vixen Jinny darting in to say vulgar things. England, My England "That vixen," said Miss Earle, quietly, "has been telling me that you and she were discussing me this morning, and discussing the conversation that took place last night." In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories Among these was a most attractive vixen, whose society kept the rest from leaving when the weather improved; consequently, the wood seemed full of foxes, none of which were disposed to leave it. The Naturalist on the Thames She is dead now; God rest her soul! the daughter of the watchman at Sitoia; and such a vixen! A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Mrs. Bettesworth was a vain, foolish vixen; fond of dress, and fonder of her own will. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 He brought them up to a vixen and her cubs, and got them all playing together. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution "Was it that artful, wicked little vixen in Bloomsbury Square?" The Virginians The vigorous vixen was utterly weak, and limp as a wet towel—a woman of jelly. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Dolly has the least little possible touch of the vixen about her. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War There is no word in the English language," she said, "which conveys to me so little of defined meaning as that word vixen. The Eustace Diamonds "Better than he deserves," was the answer—"better than he deserves, for disturbing us with his vixen brawls, and breaking God's peace and the King's." The Antiquary — Volume 02 No one can produce a dog that has half the odour of Reynard, and this odour the dog-fox would doubtless possess were its sire a fox-dog or its dam a vixen. Dogs and All about Them |
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