I never had seen coyotes like them before, and it throwed a scare into me--it sure did!
I'd heard coyotes barking, as I thought, all the forenoon.
Few of the riders carried a gun on Sunset Ranch unless the coyotes proved troublesome.
Here are the marks of at least four coyotes that were stealing down on the flock when you fired.
Coyotes seem to know when the lambs come and they make ready to raid the flocks.
Perhaps the coyotes were over there; or could it be a cougar or a bear?
The government has spent thousands of dollars killing coyotes on these ranges.
You see six or seven coyotes put their heads together, as they have a way of doing, and cut a group of lambs off from the herd--got between them and the flock.
He took serious objection to the coyotes which howled, serenaded, and made merry in the edge of the meadow about a quarter of a mile from my cabin.
Never before had I realized thatcoyotes too had enjoyments, and I listened to their shouts with pleasure.
During the second winter that Scotch was with me and before he was two years of age, one of the wily coyotes showed a tantalizing spirit and some interesting cunning which put Scotch on his mettle.
So long as the coyotes sunned themselves, kept quiet, and played, Scotch simply watched them contentedly from afar; but the instant they began to howl and yelp, he at once raced over and chased them into the woods.
Into the tangled forest the coyotes always retreated when Scotch gave chase, and into this retreat he dared not pursue them.
I lay down without a gun, and while the fire changed and faded to black and gray the coyotes began to howl.
Soon three coyotes came sneaking through the grass, talking in hushed voices--a thing they seldom did.
But if the quietness of the coyotes surprised Benny, what they said astonished him a great deal more.
And for a moment he was tempted to call to the coyotes and ask them if what they said was really true or if they were only fooling.
The prairie dogs would be too wary, with those coyotes in their village.
At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling for food.
Cherry County; that's where the hay is so fine, and the coyotes can scratch down to water.
Accordingly even the short stay and cursory notes involved an additional mile of darkness on a trail so rough as to cut through shoe-soles and sandals and catch scents of blood to tempt coyotes to the camp site.
Coyotes are foolish, alongside him, and you'll find it out.
He was a "Government hunter" and he had killed many coyotes and lynx and even a mountain lion or two.
Just stay on your horse--he can't run faster than a bullet, and I don't miss coyotes when I shoot them on the run.
The present paper deals with the group as a whole, and is confined to a discussion of the economic relations of coyotes in general to our agricultural interests.
The following is a table, by counties, of the number of coyotes on which bounties were paid during the year above specified.
During the following night the coyotespicked the bones of the carcass hare.
While some of the injury is caused by the larger wolves, mountain lions, bears, and lynxes, the coyotes are by far the most formidable enemy.
For the purpose of testing the ability of coyotesto pass over or through fences a unique experiment was made.
Farmington, Utah, Vernon Bailey saw two coyotes chasing calves and yearlings about a pasture, evidently trying to separate one from the lot.
The food of coyotes has been a subject of investigation by the field naturalists of the Biological Survey, whenever opportunity offered.
During the night a flock ofcoyotes entered the ranks and the sheep stampeded.
The advantages of introducing sheep into this part of the country are acknowledged by the farmers, and there seems to be no reason why it has not been done, except that coyotes are common, large, and fond of mutton.
Various methods of dealing with it have been in vogue since coyotesfirst began to like mutton.
In fencing againstcoyotes with woven fences care must be used to see that there are no openings at the ground through which the animals can force themselves, since they are more likely to crawl under a fence than jump over it.
I never knew that the bed was hard, or that the coyotes were howling.
And at supper Dinky-Dunk told me coyotes were too cowardly to come near a person, and were quite harmless.
Giss the coyotesor a lion got her, and the little fellow was mighty wake, and was willin' to make friends.
Later, when they missed him, a few tattered shreds of clothing and fleshless, scattered bones would tell where the buzzards and coyotes had feasted.
The buzzards and coyotes will keep you company after I have gone, Senor!
Often Justin lay under the night sky, rolled in his blankets, when the coyotes were most annoying, ready to leap up at the first alarm given by the dog.
The coyotes slew the sheep, the mountain lions pulled down the deer, the wild cats devoured the birds, and for all the fluttering, flying insect life the birds made of the glorious turquoise skies an endless hell of fear.
Can't roost with a noisy bunch of coyoteslike them runnin' 'round an' howlin' for gore.
If it's all you say we 'll show them coyotes we know a few tricks ourselves.
What I feel like doing is going out in the sage-brush and blowing the top of my fool head off, and letting the coyotes eat what's left of me and get me out of the way!
And the two boys dug a grave for Miss Deer, and laid her in that grave just as she fell, and covered it with a pile of stones so the coyotes couldn't touch her.
Then he slept all night, while other coyotes howled dismally near by.
Off to one side a dozen coyotes loafed along, not unlike a dozen loafing dogs, keeping abreast of the buckboard.
He is dead now, and the ravens and coyotes have wrangled over his ignoble bones.
As for what dead Cheyennes went over the cliff, certain coyotes and ravens, educated of a prevailing plenty to haunt the spot, would in an hour remove the last trace of their taking off.
We could sometimes hear the coyotes and the grey wolves howl at night, but a sense of security prevailed, and our sleep was sound.
Deer and wolves were sometimes seen, and coyotes often made havoc with our fowls, digging through the sod chicken house to rob the roosts.
The coyotes ceased their insane laughter and scurried off to where jackrabbits played on moonlit pasturelands.
Away in the distance coyotes lifted their yodel, half jocular, half mournful, as a maudlin drunkard sings dolefully a merry tune.
As he rode down a draw, he came suddenly upon two coyotes playing like puppies in the sun.
The coyotes now returned, and with unearthly yells attacked their dead brothers, snapping, snarling, and quarrelling over their carcasses as they tore the flesh and crunched the bones.
We rose at daylight, and through the dim light could see the coyotes trotting off to the swamp, while near the camp lay heads, legs, and piles of cleanly licked bones, all that was left of the gray wolves we had killed.
I was prepared for a fight, but the stillness of the night and the howling of the wolves and coyotes made cold chills run through me at times; but I reached Sand Springs in safety and reported what had happened.
We, however, kept a bright fire burning, and no gray wolves came about; so the coyotes were disappointed, and vented their disappointment all night long in the most dismal howls I ever heard.
To show you how good them coyotes is, I wants to tell you: I don't notice it ontil the next day.
You might as well waste time expoundin' to coyotes an' jack-rabbits.
It's this bluff about me not havin' money puts me in mind later that this Bill must have rustled my raiments when he finds me that time when I'm presided over bycoyotes while I sleeps.
It must have made them coyotesstop an' consider a whole lot about what I be.
Even the coyotes cashes in an' quits their howls whenever the Deef Woman drug her chair up to that piano an' throws loose.
A couple of rough-coated, sharp-eared graycoyotes were rolling and tumbling over one another in a good-natured scuffle.
There are such delightful thickets along the rivers and streams, that coyotes have plenty of safe hiding places.
Both coyotes sat down and the little cotton-tail spoke: "Life is hard and dangerous for a rabbit at best.
As soon as the jackrabbit had gotten over that terrible reference to rabbits enough to steady his voice, he called upon the coyotes for remarks.
From afar came the demoniacal laughter of coyotes on their night hunts.
But just as she fancied that the coyotes had drawn so near that she could hear their footsteps, a hand was laid on her arm.
I had scarcely settled myself when I heard what seemed to be ten or twelve coyotes set up such a howling that I was quite sure of a visit from them.
I glanced about me and saw the two coyotes slyly approaching my open camp from two different directions.
The war drum was answered by the howls of coyotes on the opposite side of the Mouse river.
What had seemed to be the voices of many coyotes was in reality only one animal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coyotes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
