In very truth," P'ing Erh and Hsi Jen laughed, "this vixen has no sense of shame!
We can then tell the King our grudge and ask him how it was that, when he bade us receive life and become human beings, he only conferred a glib tongue on that vixen and that we were only allotted such blunt mouths?
It would thus be better to arrange with our master to purchase a girl and have done; for from all I see, neither can that mean vixen enjoy such great good fortune, nor we such vast propitious luck!
But that vixen Feng brags away the whole day long, as if she were a human being as valiant as any tyrant, and yet yesterday she got into such a funk that she presented a woeful sight!
Come, no more, Garcia; thou art but a sort of malevixen thyself.
Thou hast certainly some vixen of a mistress, who infects thy ears towards the whole sex.
We can hardly doubt that prehistoric man was not as big a fool as we suppose him, and that he was quite able to see that Bowerman's Nose and Vixen Tor were natural objects as truly as the tors on the hilltops.
Another remarkable pile is Vixen Tor, presenting from one point a resemblance to the Sphinx.
There is a lane above Ward Bridge that mounts the hillside on the east, and commands a fine view of Vixen Tor with Staple and Roos Tors behind.
In the evening, when the valley is in purple shade, a flood of golden glory from the west illumines Vixen Tor, and this is the true light in which the river should be ascended.
Illustration: VIXEN TOR] Here among the clitters, where they form caves, a search may be made for the beautiful moss Schistostega osmundacea.
Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of "Bonnie Dundee," and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart.
I whistled, andVixen ran up to me, muddy all over, and licked my nose, and told me a long tale about hunting for me all through the camp.
Then he stopped suddenly, and I heard a little whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last.
But my vixen of a wife has got scent of the affair and thus made it difficult for me to go.
Why, just simply this: it is that I have told my old woman not to intrude on my devotions; but, being the vixen that she is, who knows but what she may not peep and look in?
And now, that my beloved seems secure in my net, for my project upon thevixen Miss Howe, and upon her mother: in which the officious prancer Hickman is to come in for a dash.
To say the truth, Belford, I had before begun to think that the vixen of a girl, who certainly likes not Hickman, was in love with me.
A cunning old vixen from Knockdane came round one evening and hid on the brow of the hill.
He would have fought with Redpad while he had a pad left to stand upon, but by the law of the Woods a fox may not attack a vixen in the love season.
At his approach she glanced at him suspiciously, and for the first time in his life she growled at him--not the low lazy growl of an old vixen to her riotous cub, but the deep menacing rumble of one grown fox to another.
For it is one of the laws of the Fox Folk that a he-fox shall never attack a vixen to snatch her kill from her.
The vixen trotted back slowly to her lair, glancing back now and then over her shoulder and growling softly at the recollection of her recent skirmish and many other things.
It was best they should die together, for the cub was so dependent on the vixen, and the vixen so inseparable from the cub, that I am sure they could not have lived happily apart.
Half-way over, at a spot where the glittering pools lay thickest, we met a vixen and four cubs heading straight for our sett.
Despite my disappointment and fear, I resolved to visit the fen again a few nights later, and it vexed me greatly when the vixen objected and insisted that I should join her and my sisters in an expedition to the hill beyond it.
My sisters and I fled in terror to our den, where we were joined a minute later by the anxious vixen who had just left us for a foraging expedition.
Now began one of the most thrilling stalks I ever witnessed, though, owing to the astonishing way the vixen hid herself, I could see little of her but her ears.
Our supper over, the vixen led us along the crest of the hill to a small clump of wind-clipt pines, which are still standing, whence can be obtained a view of the fen on the one side and of the sand-hills on the other.
After good hunting we used to romp home together over the furze-dotted land or across the fen, and from sheer high spirits vixen and cubs alike used to bound over the bushes or clumps of rushes and sags across our path.
The vixen ran steadily some dozen paces in front, and side by side we cubs followed in her train, noiselessly as shadows.
In those expeditions I used latterly to separate myself from the vixen on reaching the hunting-ground and seek my prey alone, rejoining her when she sounded the call to leave the trail or ambuscade.
I spent miserable hours lying there; but about noon the vixen walked over to me, licked my face with her hot tongue, and curled up by my side.
At this point my recollection is blurred, save for two things, the crashing noise in the brake and the flight of the vixen and my sisters along the watercourse, with the pack in pursuit.
Whilst we lay there huddled together and crying out for the vixen she returned, darkening the tunnel as she came towards us.
Northward of the bridge is Staple Tor; southward, nearer to the small village of Sampford Spiney, are the Vixen and Pu tors.
The Vixen is a curious mass of weathered granite, taking almost any shape that the view-point and the imagination of the spectator may suggest.
He always called Vixen a woman, and seemed to have lost all consciousness that he was using a figure of speech.
Vixen had begun to whimper, and there was a sound of a stick and a lame walk on the stairs.
But towards the close, the raps became so sharp and frequent, and his voice so quarrelsome, that Vixen felt it incumbent on her to jump out of the hamper and bark vaguely.
Vixen returned to her hamper again in humiliation, and her master continued his supper in a silence which Adam did not choose to interrupt; he knew the old man would be in a better humour when he had had his supper and lighted his pipe.
He brought out of the pantry a dish of scraps, which Vixen at once fixed her eyes on, and jumped out of her hamper to lick up with the utmost dispatch.
Here Vixen tucked her tail between her legs and ran forward into the house.
Vixen was at once on her legs, and without further words the three walked out into the starlight, by the side of Bartle's potato-beds, to the little gate.
The black-and-gray pup snarled furiously, and the vixen leaped backward on the instant.
The vixen promptly broke its neck with one snap of her powerful jaws and dragged the little creature out into the sunshine.
This vixen was closely related to the red fox to whom this cave had formerly belonged.
Here it seemed he must pay the ultimate penalty of his unheard-of temerity, and be despatched by the now thoroughly angered vixen at her leisure.
However, Jan was in earnest now; more so than he had ever been since, more than five months earlier, he had flung his gristly bulk upon the vixen fox who slew his sister in the cave.
The vixen leaped warily and doubled with real agility.
Outside the cave, in the sunshine, the vixen was sniffing and nosing at the body of the puppy she had killed.
The vixen was still well within sight from Desdemona's cave when her time came.
We must march at five o'clock, and poor Vixen could not be moved.
Whatever there was of ostentatious display, Vixenand I took part in, but this was not much.
Poor Vixen (that had been her name in her better days, and it was to be her name again), she had found it hard kicking against the pricks!
At Jefferson City Vixen made her last appearance in ladies' society, as by the twilight fires of the General's camp she went through her graceful paces before Mrs. Fremont and her daughter.
My mind was made up, and Vixen must be mine at any cost.
To us it was naturally a day of sore trial; but with brilliant, happy Vixen it was far different; she was leaving no friends behind, was going to meet no unknown peril.
Vixen gave me lessons in fencing which a few years later, in time of graver need, stood me in good stead.
They came to a little thicket, and a vixen popped out.
Then said the vixen to him, "Thanks to thee, little Tsar Novishny, that thou hast let me go.
XVII A WHITE VIXEN The white mare that the blacksmith was shoeing looked much surprised when Twinkleheels told her he was not a colt.
Vixen had forgotten her former fright, and her evil courage had returned.
Vixen had not once made a face to his face; I will not say she had made none at his back.
Might Vixen but see motion and commotion, turmoil and passion around her, she did not care how it arose, or which of the persons involved got the worse in it.
There is a little girl of the family--" Here he told how Vixen had from the first behaved to him, and what things had happened in consequence, the last more particularly.
The same moment, by a neighbouring door that opened from another passage, in came Barbara, and before Vixen was well aware of her presence, had dealt her such a box on the ear that she burst into a storm of wrathful weeping.
Vixen gave herself to her dinner, and but the shadow of a grimace now and then reminded Richard of the old monkey-phiz.
Vixen lay where he laid her, and went on screaming.
My lady's dower won't be much for Percy the cad and Arthur the proper, not to mention Dorothy the cow, and Vixen the rat!
But the little vixen would not consent to be naught any smallest while.
Coming to herself in a few minutes, Vixen told a confused story of how the bear had frightened her.
Vixen had told her that the horrid man had made her mamma quite ill; and Barbara found her with her boudoir darkened, and a cup of green tea on a Japanese table by the side of the couch on which she lay.
Vixen dared not go near him again for a long time.
It was to further their Jacobite plots that they put this vixen out of the way, because she had some secrets in her power, and they laid it all on her temper, which, they told me, caused my lord to go in fear of his reputation and his life.
The steward's heart smote him as he said this, but he forgave himself on the plea that the vixen brought it all upon herself.
She is all kindness and forgiveness, and what can it be but my old vixen spirit that makes this hard to bear?
Fly scraped it off with a delicate forepaw, Vixen rolled over, and doubly entangled it in her rugged coat.
I heard you tell of how you meant to slay the vixen and her cubs.
He did not guess that the "fox" meant his own father, and the "vixen and her cub" his mother and Alpin.
I could have crushed that sharp-tongued young vixen till she cried for mercy .
But why think of a vixen now, of blue eyes and biting tongues, when the night with unerring hand clothes the landscape with glory.
I shall be so glad," she said, in a voice so humble, and with so tender a face, that the people in the other room would scarce have recognized her as the little savage and vixen they called her.
The little vixen flung her tiny slipper into his face once when he tried to kiss her, under the influence of a soupcon too much of madame's foamy champagne.
This was to him a grand discovery, for, in anticipation, cubs and vixen were already his.
The vixen listens patiently and replies, Eastern fashion, with a brief parable, whose moral is that those who can help themselves to the good things of life should do so.
He apologizes, and the vixen consents to try and bring the prey within reach again.
The vixen willingly assents, and searching the country finds an ass feeding.
And over the horses there was small consultation needed; the only two nags found being a young vixen of a black colt, and an intensely sedate horse of no particular colour which Mrs. Bywank was accustomed to drive to church.
The groom had been sent back with the cob, and Rollo walked with the bridle of Vixen in his hands.
Relinquishing this respectable creature to Dingee, Wych Hazel perched herself upon Vixen and set forth; walking the colt now to keep by her little guide, but promising herself a good trot on the way home.
The grey went well, spite of his age and steadiness, and Vixen behaved her prettiest; but she was not much of a steed after all, and just now was shewing the transforming power of a good rider.
For the old grey had paces, if his jollity was somewhat abated; and Vixen went provokingly, minding her business like one who thought she had better.
You might as well talk reason to Vixen as to Kitty Fisher,' muttered Rollo.
It was very clear thatVixen could not cross the stile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vixen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
