Flushing with shame, he consigned his folly and all lynxes to the place of eternal torment, hitched his old sorrel mare to the drag, and set out after those superior poles which grew below Sugar Loaf.
Apparently satisfied at length that there was no trap laid for them in John Hatch's quiescence, the two lynxes ran forward swiftly and sprang at his neck.
The lynxes had long practiced patience, and, for all their hate, they were prudent.
With the responsibility for his master's care thus suddenly thrust upon him, his fear of lynxes vanished.
Into this icy oblivion he dropped the baby lynxes in a bunch, with a stone tied to them, as he was wont to do with the superfluous kittens at home.
He despised all lynxes as cordially as he hated them; but he knew that a mother, of almost any breed, may do desperate things for her young.
In his eyes all lynxes were vermin of the worst kind.
He warned Pam to keep to the house for a day or two, until the lynxes were either killed or driven away from the neighbourhood, and then he was gone.
Mrs. Walsh, who had wrinkled her nose in distaste, for the odour of the lynxesstill clung to the place.
He tied the door with it on the day when we found the lynxes here.
Apparently the door had not been touched since Mose Paget had tied it up to keep the lynxes from returning to their lair.
She hated to have to speak against Mose, because of his goodness to her on that never-to-be-forgotten day when she stumbled on the lynxes at the ruined house on the old tote road.
As the foxes and lynxes are enemies to the wolves; so my people have enemies who are thirsting for their blood.
But Baltook was not thinking of lynxes today, not indeed of anything else in particular.
The Lynxes were astonished and durst no more attempt anything at him.
Water Lynxes on perceiving the situation of their companion, "Ha!
The male lynxes are much larger and handsomer than the females, weighing some 42 to 50 lbs.
One morning we rode out to some distant thickets where a neighbouring herdsman--half peasant, half poacher--complained that a family of lynxes were working havoc among his kids.
Lynxes produce their young in April, often using the hollowed trunk of some cavernous cork-tree, or forming a sort of nest on the big branches for the purpose.
One of the lynxes which had so severely wounded the old leader heard the challenge and, though it struck fear into even his savage heart, he stole soundlessly forward until he could see the beast upon the rock.
The lynxes grew steadily leaner and their temper more savage.
Murdo McKay has often seen 2 or 3 Lynxes together in March, the mating season.
The slaughter of Lynxes in its relation to the Rabbit supply is shown by the H.
This is another evidence of the straits the Lynxesare put to for food, in this year of famine.
The so-called lynxes of Bacchus were generally represented as resembling leopards rather than any of the species now known by the name.
Several lynxes are found in North America; the most northerly has been described as the Canadian lynx (L.
When Jack came down the stems rose nearly to their former height and left the lynxes suspended well out of reach of any prowling animal.
That fawn that those two lynxes were eating the other day was probably either one that they stumbled on by accident, or else perhaps one that had died from some sickness.
They went down this until they came to the place where the lynxes had been hung up, and getting these, they went back to camp, reaching it just about sundown.
So they set down in that site and they loosed the falcons and lynxes and dogs and caught great plenty of game, whereat they rejoiced and abode there some days, in all joyance of life and its delight.
At once thelynxes stopped also, and crouched flat, tensely watching, their claws dug deep into the hard-trodden snow so as to give them purchase for an instant, powerful spring in any direction.
Scairt to death of a gun--and goes out to fightlynxes all by herself!
The lynxes had the keenest dislike to crossing the open pasture in this broad daylight, but they had been driven by hunger to the point where the customs and cautions of their wary kind are recklessly thrown aside.
The bigger of the two lynxes turned straight over backward and lay without a quiver, smashed by the heavy charge of buckshot with which Jake had loaded the gun.
Melindy and the Lynxes The deep, slow-gathering snows of mid-February had buried away every stump in the pasture lot and muffled from sight all the zigzag fences of the little lonely clearing.
The two lynxes were together, strong in that alliance which they had formed for purpose of battle.
The eagle had a wider outlook than others of the wild kindred, and he knew from of old many matters which the lynxes of Ringwaak had never learned till that day.
Seeing themselves discovered, the two lynxes threw aside their cunning and rushed ravenously upon what they counted easy prey.
The lynxes were in the heavier timber to the south.
As a consequence, thelynxes were thick, and Henri built his trapping shack, and then returned to the post to wait until the first snows fell, when he would come back with his team, supplies and traps.
Snaring is the principal way in which the lynxes are killed by the North American Indians.
Lynxes are always found in greatest numbers where their natural food supply is most plentiful.
With these magnificent animals they had lots of fun during the long months of the winter, hunting jack-rabbits, digging coyotes out of their holes in the ledge above the banks of the creek, or fighting lynxes and coons in the timber.
Besides deer, it is quite usual that wild-boar, as well as lynxes and other minor animals, come forward on these "drives.
Lynxes never chase; they kill by stalking, and a crouching spoor ends in a spring.
Lynxes never show-up so by daylight, but an hour or two before dawn their weird wailing cries may be heard in the bush from mid-February onwards.
Two lynxes and three pigs were reported as seen by the beaters.
Truly you agree when the keeper says, "Lynxes see best in the dark.
The story of how one of our tame lynxes attacked and nearly killed a poor lavandera is told in Wild Spain, p.
Gathered round him all the squirrels, As from branch to branch they clambered, And the ermines flocked around him, Laid them down against the fences, 40 On the plains the deer were springing, And the lynxes shared the pleasure.
Be the land to snakes abandoned, Let the lynxes snarl in greenwood, In the fields the reindeer wander, In the brakes the geese conceal them.
The mother's efforts to make him understand that lynxes were dangerous had small effect upon him; and the experience advanced him not at all in his hitherto unlearned lesson of fear.
I didn't think there were any lynxes this side of the mountain.
A pair of hunting lynxes paused at the sound, licked their chops, and crept forward with a green light in their wide, round eyes.
So a great many lynxes are shot or trapped every year, and before very long the animal will most likely disappear from Europe altogether.
When one of these lynxes is running through long grass it looks very odd; for it travels by means of a series of leaps, all four of its feet coming to the ground together.
A couple of lynxes have been known to kill six sheep between them in a single night.
Lynxes are also found in Canada; but it is not quite certain whether these belong to a different species or not.
One day as he was hunting an elk his lynxes gave it chase even into the lake; and when they reached the middle of it, they were submerged in an instant.
Their story of the deluge is practically as follows: This Messou went a hunting with lynxes, instead of dogs, and was warned that it would be dangerous for his lynxes in a certain lake near the place where he was.
Astonished, he gave up all thought of his lynxes and turned his attention to creating the world anew.
He is the oracle of all the lynxes that rule the Paris market; they will not touch an investment until Palma has looked into it.
There is something up,' said the lynxes of the Bourse.
Neither the bear creeping up from below the dam, nor the two lynxes stealing down from above it, had eyes or thought for anything in the world but the desperately toiling beavers.
Now, when the beavers had so considerately come over to the edge of the woods, and appeared to be engrossed in some incomprehensible pulling and splashing and mud-piling, the two lynxes felt that their opportunity had arrived.
On the other hand, had the lynxes even tightened up their sinews to spring, he would have hurled himself with a roar into the battle.
But he knew how those powerful knife-edged claws of the lynxes could rend.
Then the round eyes of the lynxes shifted ever so little, while the bear's eyes never faltered.
Had he made the slightest forward move, the lynxes would have thrown caution to the winds, and sprung upon him.
Simultaneously the two lynxes shot into the air from higher up the bank, frantic with disappointed hunger.
To him it was clearly the lynxes who had frightened off the beavers and spoiled his hunting; and interference of this kind is what the wild kindreds will not tolerate.
She knew that there were bears, wolves and lynxes in these forests, and also rattlesnakes.
Lynxes and wildcats, too, though less dangerous, were not to be despised, and there was the ever-present danger of snakes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lynxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
