The wild dogs in foreign countries, on the other hand, are just as selfish, living every one for himself, as so many foxes might be.
For (among other animals) the Foxes are black and of such beautiful fur that they seem to put the Martens to shame.
Giles," he said, "you have been killing more foxes and hiding them in this tree.
Foxes must live, and this one has young to feed, and therefore is always hungry.
Foxes are very destructive animals," said the Red-faced Man to Giles, "especially when one shoots and keeps harriers.
Ageetuk also is a good hunter and trapper, and brought in two red foxes from her traps yesterday, when she came home from her outing with Mollie.
Mollie goes often these days to look for foxes and to shoot ptarmigan, taking with her a dog-team, and a native boy or two with their guns.
Little Charlie ran up to Mollie on her return from her hunt, and cried in a mixture of Eskimo and English: "Foxes peeluk, Mamma?
Red foxes are found throughout the heavily timbered parts of North America north of latitude thirty-five degrees.
Foxes are caught in small traps, which are covered with brushwood and buffaloes' skulls, to conceal them.
The foxes wear fox skins on different parts of their body.
There are some twenty different sorts of cats, of various sizes from lions down; and twice as many different sorts of dogs, wolves, foxes and other dog-like creatures.
Either they grind up plants for food, as horses and cows and sheep and goats do; or else they hunt and kill other living animals and devour them, as do the cats and dogs and wolves and foxes and hyenas and such like.
And Jesus said, The foxes of the earth have homes, the birds have nests; I have no place to lay my head.
The foxes of the earth have safe retreats; the birds have nests secure among the hidden rocks, but I have not a place where I may lay my head and rest secure.
Canticles alludes to the destruction of the young shoots, Theocritus pictures the foxes devouring the ripe grapes.
Even more amusing is the supposed indebtedness on one side or the other in the reference made by Theocritus and Canticles to the ravages of foxes in vineyards.
Foxes commit both forms of depredation, but the poets have seized on different aspects of the fact.
But just now the Foxes were stronger than they had been at any time.
The poor Foxes had lost in this terrible experience upward of fifteen hundred of the bravest of their tribe, which was now reduced to a few half-starved bands.
Tradition says that over a thousand Foxes and Sacs fell in this massacre; this is one of the many incidents in white men's relations with the Indians, wherein savages were outsavaged in the practice of ferocious treachery.
Thus deserted, the disconsolateFoxes passed the winter in Iowa, and sent messengers to the Green Bay fort, begging for forgiveness.
This led to later retaliation on the part of the French, but in the battle which was fought both sides lost heavily; and then both Sacs and Foxes fled from the country, never to return.
Despite the great slaughter, there appear to have been enoughFoxes left to continue giving the French a great deal of annoyance.
At this point the Foxes surrendered, but they gained easy terms for those days, for De Louvigny was no butcher of men, and appeared to appreciate their bravery.
During this war not only had the great tribe of the Foxes been almost annihilated, but the power of France in the West had meanwhile been greatly weakened by the persistent opposition of those who had held the key to her position.
It was evident that the Foxes were trying to gain control of the Illinois River, and thus command both of the principal roads to the Mississippi.
The Foxes began to make it disagreeable for the French in Wisconsin.
It was inevitable that the Foxes should lose in the end, but they sold themselves dearly.
The united Sacs (or Saukies) andFoxes (Outagamies) were also prominent tribes.
Again and again he sought redress from the government, and the Wisconsin Foxes earnestly pleaded that he be sent back to them, as "the best beloved of all the French who have ever been among us.
We soon find the Foxes weak again, with few to back them; in 1726, at a council in Green Bay, they were apologizing for having made so much trouble.
The foxes have selected one of the prettiest tracts of the wood for their breeding-earth.
The heavy rains of the end of January filled all the drains, in which many foxes lie, so full of water that they abandoned them in sheer disgust, and took to the warm lying of the wood.
The parent foxes do not, as a rule, kill much game in the wood itself, except when the cubs are young.
The Arabs eat also foxesand wolves, and many animals of the chase not partaken of by us.
In a few words of intense feeling, Wita-tonkan thanked the Chief of the Grey Foxes and the Council, then took again his place in the Chair.
The Sunset Islanders saved piggy’s life from a watery grave, but the Grey Foxes saved him from the butcher’s blade!
Yes, the Grey Foxes are going to be the guests of the Sunset Islanders, while the Wakos will visit Isola Bella,” continued Mr. Remington.
We ought to put on steam and show the Grey Foxes what we have done this summer!
Oh, ay, it was inhabited ahlways--by foxes and eagles.
The foxes have accepted the situation in a spirit of meekness, and are seemingly satisfied.
Then somebody else told about four young foxes in Indiana that have been adopted by a cat.
Some sly foxes got out of themselves, leaping from the roof to the back of a kneeling camel.
The girls liked the lambs the best; the boys were delighted with the foxes that jumped on the edge of the boat that formed the ark.
For two or three hours more the two foxes stuck to the trapper's trail, Red Fox being moved the more by his antagonism to Jabe Smith, and eager to thwart him at as many points as possible.
This was the place the foxes needed for security; and here, as soon as the frost was well out, and the mother fox ready to resume her full share of the hunting, the two dug out a new burrow, which ran far under an overhanging rock.
The two foxes touched noses sympathetically, then fell to licking each other's wounds.
Over the naked ridge-crest the winds blew steadily, sometimes humming to a gale; but they never disturbed the quiet of that deep pocket in the rocks, with its little plot of bright, bare soil where the young foxes played and sunned themselves.
In a litter of young foxes there is usually one that is larger and stronger, and of more finely coloured fur, than his fellows.
Interested and greatly excited over the affair, the two foxes had sprung forward when he jerked himself free, and followed at his heels till he ran up the hemlock.
As the youngfoxes grew in strength and enterprise, life became more exciting for them.
Not till the stillness had lasted a long time, and the moon was beginning to sink among the tree-tops, did the two foxes dare to come forward and investigate.
The two foxes retraced their steps more rapidly and less cautiously than they had come, carefully observing and carefully avoiding each uncovered trap as they came to it.
In a sort of ecstasy the foxes sped across the hillocky pasture and plunged into blessed cool.
The two foxes ran after him a little way, in mere pretence of pursuit, then, extremely elated over their easy triumph, resumed their journey toward the den on the hillside.
He simply represents the best, in physical and mental development, of which the tribe of the foxes has shown itself capable.
What were ducks and chickens for if not to feed foxes; and what were farmers for if not to serve the needs of foxes by providing chickens and ducks?
Whenever the Widow was cruel, the Foxes were sure to pay for it.
His Stable Doors are patched with Noses that belonged to Foxes of the Knight's own hunting down.
Minks, foxes and raccoons were abundant in the woods about the clearing, and he was very expert in taking them.
Julian threw in his foxes and minks one after the other, and then crawled in himself and closed the door after him.
But besides these there are little Arctic foxes and Arctic hares, with bluish-grey coats in the summer and snowy-white ones in the winter.
Foxes and other fur-bearing animals will always fetch good prices.
When you think you have unearthed a truth, you let it loose upon the world, without stopping to think whether, like the foxesin the Bible with their burning tails, it will not set fire to the world.
And he called, and called, and called, till wolves and foxes and all sorts of other creatures all came running to see what was the matter.
In a few minutes a dark cloud came rolling up the sky, giving out such terrific claps of thunder that the wolves and the foxes and all the other creatures ran helter-skelter in all directions.
As he was running off he cried over his shoulder: 'As long as the world lasts the asps' eyes will go down in the heads of foxes from generation to generation.
One autumn two foxes were shot at my lower bars as they were jumping the little river.
One of the high roads of the foxes runs across the farm.
No one would believe in the number of foxes (or the number of times I have counted the same fox) here on the farm, and this only sixteen miles by the roundabout road from Boston Common!
Lately I found a den of young foxeswithin barking distance of the house, but along a stony ridge on the adjoining farm.
For it is the truth that I do not enjoy the foxes now as I did before I kept hens, nor the buttercups as I did before I got the cow.
We humans possess the land by day and the foxes keep to their dens; the foxes possess the land at night and we humans take to our dens.
We were close to the den where the little foxes were, and the old ones were taking turns in trying to lead us away.
The rocky ridges, high stone walls, and precipices are too numerous to please the riders, and the final retreats in the rocks are so plentiful that it was a marvel the foxes did not overrun Monsaldale.
And the training of the littlefoxes was all shaped to take advantage of the weakness of the other creatures and to make up for their own by defter play where they are strong.
Within a single year it was a wilder place than ever; fresh trees and brambles grew, and falling wires made many Cottontail castles and last retreats that dogs and foxes dared not storm.
This large and regular levy of provisions wholly carried off could mean but one thing, a family of little foxes at home; and to find them I now was bound.
And the little foxes began to wonder if their mother wasn't asleep.
So after a little search at the other side of a knoll, I found the real entry and good proof that there was a nest of little foxes inside.
Here are some that foxestaught me, without saying a word:-- Never sleep on your straight track.
He had dug a den between the roots of an old pine stump, so that the foxes could not follow him by digging.
VIII During that same winter I caught many wolves and foxes who did not have Bingo's good luck in escaping the traps, which I kept out right into the spring, for bounties are good even when fur is not.
Foxes long ago learned what a railroad is; they soon devised several ways of turning it to account.
There lay the three little baby foxes all licked smooth now, and by them were two of our hens fresh killed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
