What a cunning old fox it is, to be sure.

Formerly this island contained great numbers of silver gray foxes.

Ah, Nell, you little fox!" "Told you what, Nick?" Was he, too, a party to the murderous plan?

When trying to explain how this idea of successfully raising "silver" black foxes took such a main grip on his imagination, he brought out a batch of clippings which he had managed to get hold of in some manner, Max could not even guess how.

Squire Savage, the fox-hunter, who, like Hippolitus of old, chased the wily fox and timid hare, and had never yet acknowledged the empire of beauty, was subdued by the artless sweetness of Delia.

Well, crafty fox, I'll hunt ye, by my troth, Deal ye so closely!

It is also true that there was a half-tame fox once upon a time chained up at Tangley Hall in the inner yard, and I have heard many speculative wiseacres in the public-houses turn that to great accountthough they could not but admit that "there was never one there in Miss Silvia's time."

He was therefore an artful old fox, and one very difficult to run down.

That hounds will stick to their fox, twist and turn though he may, in spite of hares, is a fact that is often proved in this country, when a lucky view has once more put them on good terms with the hunted fox, at a time when half the field have been crying "hare."

"In Belsaye is that pale fox Sir Gui of Allerdale with many trusty men-at-arms to hold the town for Black Ivo and teach Belsaye its duty: how may we destroy my lord Duke's gallows 'neath the very beards of my lord Duke's garrison, wilt tell me that, my good, Black Rogerkin?" "Aye," nodded Roger, "that will Iwhen I have asked my lord."

the wicked fox! was all the cry; Out from his house ran every neighbour nigh: The vicar first, and after him the crew, With forks and staves the felon to pursue.

It is all jagged with the brown butts of its old fallen leaves; and among the butts perch broad-leaved ferns, and fleshy Orchids, and above them, just below the plume of mighty fronds, the yellow fox's brush, which is its spathe of flower.

It is very rare that a mischievous fox, given to the destruction of poultry, is also a straight-necked one.

But she heeded this neither until presently his temper getting somewhat out of hand he cursed her obstinacy and told her if she would be a damned fox she was welcome to it, for his part he could get his own way.

'Tis a foxa great, lanky, thieving, villainous fox, darned if it ain't!" "Where?" said parson and squire excitedly.

He is beginning, like all tired foxes, to twist and turn.

I'm afraid that ugly tramp fox will come back.

Our aim should be to look well about us, to ward off misfortune by going to meet it, to attain such perfection and refinement in averting the disagreeable things of life,whether they come from our fellow-men or from the physical world,that, like a clever fox, we may slip out of the way of every mishap, great or small; remembering that a mishap is generally only our own awkwardness in disguise.

BURNETT, W. R. The quick brown fox.

The scarlet fox; a novel of mystery.

'Tis a foxa great, lanky, thieving, villainous fox, darned if it ain't!" "Where?" said parson and squire excitedly.

Susan whispered to Bunny that she had never seen so handsome a fox in her life.

I suppose the Spartan who felt the gnawing of the hidden fox was a mere type of this species of anguish, which reproduces itself wherever wounded pride underlies concealment, or wherever injustice and ingratitude render us uncomplaining through a sense of moral dignity.

"Hoary old fox!" said the colonel.

Leave the horrid old fox alone!