As there is no treaty possible between lions and men, no concord between wolves and lambs, but only fear and hatred, so is there hate unending between me and thee, which naught but death may cancel or abate.
Ye will soon learn what ye have lost in my Hector, when ye fly like sheep without a shepherd before the wolves of Greece.
The infant state of Albania was to be flung to the wolves to save its elders.
Then they broke rank, howled a war cry and rushed over the hill like a pack of wolves on the trail, firing their rifles as they went.
There are roots in our storehouses with which they may do as they please, and they will not miss the deer and the wolves and the foxes that the palefaces have frightened away.
Between the Polar Bear and Siberian Wolves we had to watch our dogs all night to keep them from being killed, as well as ourselves.
Night after night we were surrounded by Siberian Wolves they hungred for our flesh.
It was so cold that We had to sleep in our Reindeer sleeping bags through the night--so occasionally we would have to unlace our bags and smoke up the wolves and then depend upon a little rest till they got too fresh again.
Buffalo emasculated by wolves are often found on the prairies, where they grow to an immense size; the skin of the buffalo ox is recognized by the shortness of the wool and by its large dimensions.
Those who have had opportunities for watching large herds tell us that whenever wolves approached and endeavored to reach a calf the old bulls would immediately interpose and drive the enemy away.
Then the wolves grew fat upon the victims which they, also, slaughtered almost without effort.
They saved a few pounds of hump meat, and all the rest became food for the wolves and foxes.
In former times, when the buffalo was abundant on the plains, they formed the chief food of the wolf, but since the buffalo has become an animal of the past, the wolves depend on stock for food.
Sometimes, when some particular band of wolves become especially destructive to stock, the bounties offered for these wolvesamount to a fancy sum of money.
The first method is a trail set, for use with a large bait, and is equally good for grey wolves and coyotes.
Almost all of the states wherewolves are found, as well as some of the provinces of Canada, pay a bounty on wolves and coyotes.
As a rule, the varieties of timber wolves found in the far north are larger than those of the south.
The capture of wolves and coyotes especially has become a profitable business.
Animals that are intended only as furs may have the feet cut off, but bears, mountain lions, wolves and wolverines should have the feet skinned out to the ends of the toes, leaving the claws attached to the skin.
You will get shots at wolves or coyotes almost every day.
It is also extensively used for trapping the smaller wolves and coyotes in the western stock raising regions.
When the wolves get to feeding on the bait they will travel on the trail and will not be looking for danger so far from the bait.
If you can find some animal that the wolves themselves have killed, do not fail to set traps there immediately.
Stake the trap just the length of the chain from the edge of the bank, driving stake out of sight, and set the trap between the cactus and about twenty inches back from the bait, somewhat farther if grey wolves are expected.
I done broke all my wolves outer that book to set up on their tails and act pretty.
I aim to turn the range wolves loose in Grave City.
But the crowd remembered how McCalmont's wolves had breakfasted with Ryan after that little dinner at Holy Cross.
Meanwhile in the messroom I could hear McCalmont calling his wolves to order, and my witnesses went away to hear his talk.
All his wolves were tame as little children when he led them; every cowboy on the range would have shared his last drop of water with old McCalmont, and even the victims he robbed would speak of him mostly as a perfect gentleman.
Don't you remember old Ryan inviting yo' wolves to eat up the Hacienda?
None of my wolves are invited to offer theyr paws in mar'iage with my Curly.
Ryan hired the range wolves, and they went straight for his own throat, but now the town wolves are eating yo' best friends.
My wolves would jump at the chance; I choked them off.
The range wolves is some fastidious, Chalkeye, and wants clean meat for their kill.
My wolveswould shorely enjoy a millionaire, but--shucks!
There are still great herds of deer to be hunted, though the wolvesand wild boars have long since vanished.
Robert with the Beard," the lord of Prudhoe, founder of the family of De Umfraville, came into possession of all the surrounding lands in 1076, on condition of defending the countryside against wolves and the enemies of the king.
The wolves tore two of my comrades to pieces, the Croats captured the third, and as he may have confessed everything, they would recognise me at once if I appeared before their eyes as I am now.
When, however, the wolves at last discovered that we had no fire-arms, they sent up the ugliest howls, and began the siege of the willow.
I thank you for your great kindness; but, from what I am told, wolves will not attack a man.
All at once the wolves returned and stormed onwards like race-horses, each one being about a wolf's tail ahead of the other.
This appeared to make the wolves still more savage, and now they tried a fresh stratagem.
Then it occurred to the gipsies that they had often heard that wolves had a strong penchant for music, and they began giving them a clarinet and fiddle concert.
It seemed an eternity to me while the bestial howling lasted which the wolves made as they shared together their accursed banquet in my very presence.
It had suddenly flashed through my brain that just at that very time my wife was on her journey through an uninhabited valley, and the foresters told me that wolves strayed about there.
See how the others crowd in on Tristram's steps, like wolves to the prey.
I ever turned against you, for had you been here this fatal end could never have been, nor those noble warriors left to be the prey of the wolves and jackals of the battle-field.
Surely a man and a horse who have no infirmities need not let a feeble old woman be devoured by wolves for their sakes!
They were not sleepy, for wolves are more alert in winter than in summer.
The wolves pounced upon it and bit at the hoops, but the vat was too heavy for them to move.
It was winter time and thewolves made for him as he was driving over the ice on Lake Ljusna.
I've been told that a long, long time ago the wolves from Sonfjället are supposed to have waylaid a man who had gone out to peddle his wares," began Bataki.
He preached so powerfully to the Delsbo peasants that in his day all the wolves and bears were exterminated from that section of the country, although they may have returned since his time.
When the man heard the wolves howl and saw how many there were after him, he lost his head, and it did not occur to him that he ought to dump his casks and jugs out of the sledge, to lighten the load.
He remembered that wolves were plentiful in that section and wondered if the horse wished to lead him to an encounter with wild beasts.
Her snow mantle fell, and the three ferocious wolves howled less savagely.
Akka had shown him deep-hidden mountain dales and had let him peep into caves where mother wolves brought up their young.
The wolves were right upon them, but now they stopped to examine that which was thrown on the ice, and the travellers again had the start of them.
He only whipped up the horse and made the best speed he could, but he soon observed that the wolves were gaining on him.
More than likely the wolves would catch up with them, and he and she and the horse would all be killed.
The man waited until the wolves were almost upon the sledge.
The sledge runners crunched on the ice, but for all that he heard how the wolves panted, and knew that the beasts were almost upon him.
And even these narrow lodgings had not been left inviolate; the wolves of the plains had too often succeeded in unearthing and rending the bodies.
Once on a time, the wolves sent an embassy to the sheep, desiring that there might be peace between them for the time to come.
He would give her his own little bed, and would watch outside the window until dawn to see that the wolvesdid not creep too near the hut.
He wound up this grewsome yarn with the sage advice to the trapper to kill all the wolves that he could.
Shooting wolves was also varied by trapping wolves, and for this he used to take a carcass of a cow or a horse, and lay it in a small stream of water.
Old leaves would then be laid over it, and it would also be covered with an inch of buckwheat bran, which would keep the wolves from smelling the iron.
Soon afterwards Meshack purchased some cattle, and, as there were scores of wolves about, on the same night that he took his stock to his home he missed one yearling, which he found had been killed by a wolf.
The wolves would soon find the bones and eat them up.
Indians are experts in imitating the cries of owls, wolves and coyotes.
The stream would then be widened where the wolves would pass, so that they could not step over it, and a flat stone be placed in the centre with green moss laid on top, so that it would look as if it had never been moved.
Wild turkeys were abundant; deer, wildcats, wolvesand bear roamed all through the rugged hills round about their home.
When a gang of wolves would come to the meat the larger ones would drive the smaller ones off.
That the wolves were fearless the following story will bear full witness: A friend of the trapper’s called Mr. Calmes, was travelling from Virginia to Kentucky with a number of others, at a time when the Indians were very troublesome.
He was going away, going to Tunis, very much troubled at leaving his poor Nabob in the midst of the pack of furious wolves that surrounded him.
But I was about to say that this big Battersea Hermit said a short time back that your Unions must be suppressed, for that, while you are united, the Wolves of St. Stephens cannot easily prey upon you.
The weaker wolves and panthers leaped upon the bull.
Now the bull had heard the wolves and panthers take council, and he, too, set off for the woods.
Illustration] When the wolves and panthers saw that they were not gaining on the bull, they halted to take counsel.
The bull said he thought the wolves would soon grow tired, fall back, and give up the chase.
As he neared the wood, the bull called to the hound and warned him that a pack of wolves and panthers was after him.
For a time it was easy to outrun the wolves and panthers, but at last they began to press hard upon him.
Some wolves and panthers were chasing a bull that had been feeding in the valley near the woods.
Because the hound is able to save his strength for the end of the chase, he can now outrun not only wolves and panthers, but all the other animals.
Presently a fierce outburst of howls and snarls told the listeners that the wolves had found their prey.
He heard the wolves howling on the hills, and a dark presentiment of evil crept over him.
An awful chorus of barking and howling burst through the forest as the wolves came on, eager for blood.
I wish the wolves and dogs would devour you," shouted Doghead to the horse.
Such was the king who reigned in the land where lions and bearded wolves live.
In the country where lions and bearded wolves live there was a king whose favourite sport was hunting and shooting; he had some hundred hounds or more, quite a house full of guns, and a great many huntsmen.
In traversing the rocky eminences of this hill, which are almost destitute of vegetation, I observed a number of large holes in the crevices and fissures of the rocks, where the wolves and hyaenas take refuge during the day.
This manoeuvre had the desired effect of frightening the wolves away from the village; but, on examination, we found that they had killed five of the cattle, and torn and wounded many others.
If the grave is without the walls of the town, a number of prickly bushes are laid upon it, to prevent the wolves from digging up the body; but I never observed that any stone was placed over the grave, as a monument or memorial.
The wolveswere scared by the shooting and ran away.
One of the wolves however, as soon as everything became quiet again, either pushed by hunger, or feeling sore at the loss of his prey, soon reappeared to our great surprise.
It is into these dark gorges that the wolves retreat, after scouring the plains and neighbouring farms for prey; and here they have maintained their ancient empire from time immemorial.
Indeed, these formal turn-outs were better suited to frighten away, than to kill and capture the foe; so that there was no just cause of surprise why the wolves remained, and even increased.
Had we been wolves or panthers, creeping upon the premises at midnight, they could not have performed their duty more noisily.
We slept well, but it is worthy of notice, that on awaking about day break, the howling of the wolves was still heard, and at about the same distance.
This is a hard world in winter for wolves and wenches and poor rogues like me.
This was just the kind of weather, he reflected, when wolves might take it into their heads to enter Paris again; and a lone man in these deserted streets would run the chance of something worse than a mere scare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wolves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
