Then the eider-ducks and swans grew silent and went to roost for the night, and the soft warm air was thrilled by the whines of bear-cubs and the cries of land-rails.
In the pale-greenish twilight of the illimitable night, when only horn-owls cried in the woods and bear-cubs snarled by the river, Demid went in to Marina.
Just at twilight a mother bear and her two cubsmet me.
Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
There must have been cubs who, in their turn, mated and fought and died, and perhaps two generations after them.
They were only avengers,--like the she-bear that fights for her cubs or the she-wolf that guards the lair.
Otter cubs of similar age have been found in every month of the year, thus exploding the old supposition that otters bred only in spring.
When first introduced to water, the cubs show considerable reluctance to swim.
On one occasion some years ago, a brother of ours found three small otter cubs on a Yorkshire beck, which he eventually captured.
Eels and frogs, the latter being skinned by an otter, are the first quarry that the bitch otter teaches hercubs to hunt.
In the north, where the rivers are swift and rocky, the cubs may first see the light of day in some cairn or pile of boulders, situated high up near the source of the stream, or in some rocky earth adjacent to a mountain tarn.
The cubs remain with their mother for some considerable time, as witness the constant occurrence of cubs of from 10 lb.
The cubs were carried home, a distance of a mile or more, but were returned within a short time to the pool where they were found.
If a bitch with cubs is killed, the cubs, if well grown, will search the vicinity for their parent, the same applying to one of a pair which has been caught in a trap, its mate remaining near it all night in an attempt to get it away.
When the cubs are able to travel, the bitch otter leads them down from the head-waters to the larger streams.
Fox cubsremain so for a period of about three weeks, and it is probable that a similar length of time, or perhaps rather more, elapses ere young otters can see.
To the Lion's den, Where the Lion's cubs grow fat On the blood of men.
Though the big male leopard growled his disapproval, Johnny ran over and patted her and her cubs before he went on.
Cubs need the love of a brother as much as they need food.
The mother leopard was lying in front of the cave, and the twocubs came running to greet them.
The great rhinosaur moved forward with thundering speed, the leopardess and her cubs loping along beside them.
When one of the cubs grew tired it leaped on to the rhinosaur's back, curled up beside Johnny and went peacefully to sleep.
Johnny clicked to one of the cubs to jump up on the rhinosaur's back beside him.
The big cat growled low, and two cubs scuttled through the entrance.
The marva cubs always came in twos: peeking around from the back of the mothers were always two pairs of bright blue eyes.
She made a little coughing noise and the cubs came up to him.
When the Fox came back, and found out what had happened, she was not so much sorry for the loss of her cubs as furious because she couldn't get at the Eagle and pay her out for her treachery.
The young cubswrestle and tumble, as playfully as two puppies.
The love that fills a mother's heart when she sees her first-born babe, is also felt by the mother bear, only in a different way, when she sees her baby cubs playing before her humble cave dwelling.
He reflected that the cubswere fast growing up, they were foxes at all points, and yet when he thought of the time when they had been sooty and had blue eyes it seemed to him only yesterday.
He was woken up soon after dawn by one of the cubs tugging at his shoelaces in play.
But at length they came to another earth, and by the starlight Mr. Tebrick could just make out the other cubs skylarking in the shadows.
He hunted with them too sometimes, chiefly by coming up and scaring rabbits towards where the cubs lay ambushed, so that the bunnies ran straight into their jaws.
Yet his Silvia was thoughtful for him too and would often send Angelica or another of the cubs to fetch him to their new lair, or come herself if she could spare the time.
And to the man, at any rate, it seemed strange that they were thus linked, and he wondered if the love his rival there bare to his vixen and his cubs were the same thing in kind as his own.
Seeing the dog-fox thus surrounded by vixen and cubs was too much for Mr. Tebrick; in spite of all his philosophy a pang of jealousy shot through him.
For a long while, as it seemed to him, he lay very still, with closed eyes, straining his ears to hear every rustle among the leaves, or any sound that might be the cubs stirring in the earth.
Very soon she led her cubs into the earth, the dog-fox had vanished and Mr. Tebrick was again alone.
It seems one of the cubs had been playing with a loose bolt, and the first thing anybody knew, there they were, all four of them, skipping about free in the menagerie tent.
How many hundred times had the Yellow Wolf scorned the traps; how many Cubs she had trained to do the same!
The Cubs had retreated in fear to a far pocket, but now they returned and crowded about her to seek their usual food.
The old Wolves or possibly the Cubsthemselves often dig little side pockets and off galleries, and when an enemy is breaking in they hide in these.
The loose earth conceals the small pocket and thus the Cubs escape.
Cubs might come, and cubs might go; but the love of Kroof and Miranda was a thing that rested unchanging.
I was delighted to play with the fawn and the cubs were like kittens to play.
When he came again he brought the fawn and two cubs to see if the boys would trade me away for them.
As soon as the boys saw the fawn and the cubs they began to cry and beg mother not to let me go.
One of the cubs was jet black, and the other of a light reddish-brown or bay color.
He held his ground, and as the cubs began to whine, she trotted back towards the tree, in a mood of uncontrolled rage.
Under the tree a fresh spirit was infused into the affray, and every time she heard her cubs whine, she returned with increased fury to the assault.
To carry off the cubs as trophies was the Cossack’s resolve, but he wanted a weapon.
All this time the cubs remained perched among the branches, and the officer, considering himself victorious, longed to take possession of his prize.
I began to figure then that this was a mother lion, and that her cubs were close by, and that she could just as well sneak up and drop on me from above as not.
Should danger threaten, and there is a small tree near, she will invariably make her cubsclimb it, where they are safe, because the large male bear can not climb very small trees.
They become mothers during the period of their hibernation, going into the caves at the time already mentioned when the other fat bears hibernate, and lie dormant until the time their cubs are born, which is about the middle of February.
In order to protect the cubs from the male bear, and other enemies, the mother's constant presence and care are necessary until they are old and large enough to protect themselves.
After the cubs are born she goes once every day for water, which, with her accumulated fat, produces milk for the sustenance of her young, she having selected her cave near a stream of running or living water.
Nothing daunts her when her cubsare imperiled, and neither man nor dogs in any number will avail in driving her from them.
Another of their peculiarities is the cubs are not permitted to see the light for sixty days after being born, as they are in the dark solitude of a cave in the ground.
When the tree fell, she pounced upon the baboon, and, after tearing her in pieces, she turned round, and licked the cubs for some time.
After this, she carried the cubs away one by one, and the sailor rejoined his companions, much pleased with the adventure.
The wise amorous seal He flayeth big with young, the walrus cubs that kneel But cannot turn his rage, alive he mangleth them, Leaveth in breathing heaps, outrooted branch and stem.
Know you not that the she-wolves let themselves be slain sooner than lose their offspring; that there are beasts which die of grief when their cubs are borne away from them?
Wherefore she sent a she-bear to the place where the child lay, and softened the heart of the beast, so that she lifted it gently in her mouth and bore it to the cave where her own cubs lay hid.
He ate of the flesh of the mystic bull, which is the god himself, and to the sound of his lyre the Maenads danced over the mountains and through untrodden woods, and held to their breasts young lions, and cubs of the untamed wolf.
A she-bear, whosecubs the hunters had killed, found the child, and for five days and five nights she suckled him, and kept him safe and warm.
The cubsso produced united some of the external characteristics of both parents, their colour being tawny, marked while they were young with darker stripes, such as may be observed in black kittens, the progeny of a tabby cat.
The latter was a beautiful young animal, with playful cubsabout the size of bull-dogs, but without the least fierceness.
The cubs taken young are easily tamed, and in response to kind treatment show a considerable amount of attachment to their owners.
These are furnished in order that the cubs may be dug out with ease when they have reached a proper age for the huntsman's purpose.
The scores of the Badger cubs may be found there also.
Now I cannot but adhere to the opinion which I wrote down in my diary at the time, that these two male lion cubs would, had they lived, have grown up into animals differing very much in appearance one from the other.
Lion cubs brought to this country from India also grow fine manes, though I do not think that there is any record of a lion ever having been shot in India with anything more than a fairly good mane.
Lydekker, in one of his recently published zoological essays, says that when light- and dark-maned cubs are met with in the same litter it is due to crossing between lions of different races.
Two of these cubswere males, and they differed very much one from another in colour even before birth.
More often a male lion may be met with accompanied by from one to four females, some of which latter may be followed by cubs of different ages and sizes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
