He seemed to hear again the rasping voice of the vulpine caller at Monte Carlo: "Messieurs!
Crouching in their cave, the two French thugs eagerly watched the winding path below, and gathered a resentful vulpine ferocity in their hearts.
At last one day the dog attacked her so furiously that she lost courage, resumed vulpine shape, leaped over a fence and fled.
Then the samurai pursued the culprit, whom he took to be a real man, but, resuming vulpine form, the animal disappeared into the thicket.
Foxes which take the form of men and women soon resume vulpine shape when fumigated, bathed, or attacked by dogs.
But directly he was called, the deerhound came back to our heels, apparently not considering the vulpine race fair game.
So he studied her face abstractedly, his own alight with an eager and predaceously alert look which only his half-whimsical, half-boyish smile held above the plane of sheer vulpine craftiness.
Nay, it should be considered too, that if the Fox had not a certain vulpine morality, he could not even know where the geese were, or get at the geese!
We may say of the Fox too, that his morality and insight are of the same dimensions; different faces of the same internal unity of vulpine life!
Phascolomys), and Mr Krefft has described yet another species obtained from the common vulpine opossum (Phalangista vulpina).
In certain Marsupials with well-developed caecal pouches, such as Phascolarctos and the Vulpine Phalangers (Figs.
Trichosurus vulpinus, the vulpine phalanger, and Phascolarctos cinereus, the koala.
A few years more, and Nero would drag hisvulpine immorality across the stage.
In the wraith-like shadows he saw the armored forms of Conquistadores in mortal strife with vulpine buccaneers.
On such terms can a little Fritz be nourished into a Friedrich the Great; while irrational man-mountains, of the beaverish or beaverish-vulpine sort, take such a price to fatten them into monstrosity!
With our vulpine friend, we were on the edge of the very same abyss, if, indeed, we were not rolling in the depth of it.
If so, do it; and avoid the vulpine kind, which I don't recommend.
After twelve days the band disperses, and every man resumes his own form, the vulpine mask dropping off him.
But only men can discern it; mere building beavers, spinning arachnes, much more the predatory vulturous and vulpine species, do not discern it well!
For the vulpine sharpness, which considers itself to be knowledge, and "detects" in that fashion, is far mistaken.
No vulpine contraction of the muzzle, such as would have suggested the sleuth and invited suspicion.
I know the sleek Count well enough to judge what effect a sermon would have upon that smooth vulpine determination of his.
The victory was won; and Orestes, somewhat more master of himself, began to turn his vulpine cunning to the one absorbing question of the saving of his worthless neck.
