These conies were of two sorts, some were like those of Spaine, and the other of the same colour and fashion, and as big as great Hares, longer, and hauing greater loines.
In this meane space, some Indians which went loose, killed many conies with their giues, and with arrowes.
Whereupon the conies ran with all speed into their burrows; upon which his fellows chiding him--Who, said he, would have thought that the conies understood Latin?
These conies were of two sorts, some were like those of Spain, and the other of the same color and fashion, and as big as great hares, longer, and having greater loins.
In this mean space, some Indians which went loose, killed many conies with their gyves, and with arrows.
Turning his tired horse to grass, he stretched himself along a grassy, sunny cranny between the rocks, and there ate and afterward slept, while all about him the lambs called and the conies whined.
Often in the discovery of methods He makes enormous leaps, and then Science conies and ascertains the extent of the gaps and the missing links, and imagines that it has found the intermediary forms which have disappeared.
But when night conies the spirits begin their tricks again.
So one has to figure it in Soltikof's day,--before the conies ruined it.
The conies are mentioned by various writers as well-known animals in days of remotest antiquity.
The conies have been regarded as the smallest and daintiest of all the existing species of odd-toed animals.
In regard to their movements and mental characteristics, the conies have been placed between the unwieldy rhinoceros and the nimble rodent.
In behavior the coniesare gentle, simple, and timid.
I cleared the yett, sprang through, and there I had it down the High Street of Maybole with the bullets spelking about me like hailstones, and chance night-wandering burghers scudding for their doors like conies on the sandy knowes.
We had enough victual to serve us for a month with the provision we had bought in Girvan, and with what I shot of the puffins or Tammy Nories, which ran in and out of their holes all day like conies in a warren.
My charger stretched away as though he had been a beagle running conies of the down into their holes.
Also there be conies and hares, silkewormes in marvelous nomber, a great deale fairer and better then be our silkewormes.
Here conies silly Tom and staggering Bob," exclaimed a fellow, as he approached towards our pedestrians.
These chicks and conies can never replace the friends she has lost and can never hope to rejoin.
When it was over, I made a pretense of feeding the conies to go apart where I might give vent to the terrible emotion that brought me to a despairing grief.
Footnote 4: These acutis are a kind of conies that dress themselves on their hind-quarters and feed with their fore-paws in the manner of a jack-squirrel.
Around him the conies cried and small birds skimmed from ledge to ledge, but his dark face did not lighten with joy of the beauty which shone over his head nor to that which flamed under his feet.
I'll enjoy being neighbor to the coniesfor a while.
The meadows of the musk-ox, where the laughing grasses grow, The rivers where the carelessconies leap.
It hath moreouer an hold, and a parish within it, beside great store of conies and wild foule, whereof they make much gaine in due time of the yeare.
The fallow deere as bucks and does, are nourished in parkes, and conies in warrens and burrowes.
Tyan, which later is a great Iland, furnished with a parish-church, and no small plentie of coniesas I heare.
Maries sound vnto Agnus Ile, which is six miles ouer, and hath in like sort one towne or parish within the same of fiue or six housholds, beside no small store of hogs & conies of sundrie colours, verie profitable to their owners.
Other pernicious beasts we haue not, except you repute the great plentie of red & fallow deere, whose colours are oft garled white and blacke, all white or all blacke, and store of conies amongst the hurtfull sort.
Martines Ile, wherein is a faire towne, the Ile it selfe being next vnto the Rusco for greatnesse, and verie well furnished with conies & fresh springs.
My intrusion upon the heights in summer has ever been announced by the conies and the marmots.
Other pernicious beasts we have not, except you repute the great plenty of red and fallow deer whose colours are oft garled white and black, all white or all black, and store of conies amongst the hurtful sort.
The fallow deer, as bucks and does, are nourished in parks, and conies in warrens and burrows.
Moreover we had drifted even in this successful fight still nearer to the pass, so that the conies who dwelt there were beginning to consider whether they should not run into their holes.
Then the panic of the conies made him turn his head, and the quick beat of his heart was quickened by worse than bodily labor.
But these are conies of great mark and special character, full of light and leading, because they have been shot at, and understand how to avoid it henceforth.
The gray old conies of curule rank, prime senators of the sandy beach, and father of the father-land, hold a just session upon the head borough, and look like brown loaves in the distance.
The hedge is quick and green with briar, From their sand the conies creep; And all the birds that fly in heaven Flock singing home to sleep.
And cows astonished stared with fear, And sheep crept to the knees of cows, And conies to their burrows slid, And rooks were still in rigid boughs, And all things else were still or hid.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make these their houses in the rocks.
The conies thus driven forth probably found other dens near by, and a number I am certain found welcome and refuge for the night in the dens of conies in undisturbed rocks within a stone's throw of the bottom of the slide.
Numbers ofconies were "Skee-eking" and scampering.
An hour later I saw conies sitting, running over the rocks, and shouting all around me--more like recess time at school than hibernating sleep.
This was his food supply for the coming winter; conies are grass and hay eaters.
The conies that escape being crushed come out peeved and protesting against unnecessary disturbances.
One of theseconies was calling from a skyline rock thirteen thousand feet above the sea.
Had these three near neighbourconies worked together in cutting, carrying, and piling these three stacks?
Conies are shy wherever I have found them, and I found many in places possibly not before visited by people.
All conies that I saw making hay were working alone.
During a winter visit to him I found cony tracks which indicated that these two conies had exchanged calls.
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