Do we say minks or minx

minks 8 occurrences

This money I got by cleaning gentlemen's shoes and drawing boots, by catching musk-rats and minks, raising potatoes and carrots, &c. and by fishing in the night, and at odd spells.

We engaged a couple of window tables at the Cafe des Beaux Minks realizing that though we were not in the money we were still on the track.

It was also a great pleasure for the children to have the hunters, returning from a successful trip, open their fur packs and spread out before them the rich furs and tell them stories about these animalsthe silver fox, the otter, beavers, minks, martens, ermines, and sometimes even about great bears and wolves, whose skin they had often had.

The beaver cut his timber With patient teeth that day, The minks were fish-wards, and the cows Surveyors of highway, When Keezar sat on the hillside Upon his cobbler's form, With a pan of coals on either hand To keep his waxed-ends warm.

This pack, he says, consisted of six large and two small beavers, two otters, six martins, ninety muskrats, and four minks.

There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces about it, and occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.

" "It is not the season for hunting now," said George; "but in the fall there are lots of ducks, pigeons, squirrels, and turkeys, and in the winter the woods are full of minks, and now and then a bear or deer; and the swamps are just the places to kill muskrats.

Last winter we lost a good many minks, when, if we had had an instrument like this, we could have secured them easily enough.

minx 113 occurrences

" "She ain't my Muckluck, and I don't believe she's a minx, not a little bit.

"If I had been five minutes beforehand with the minx!"

" "Forward young minx!" commented Sir Beverley.

She's a capricious little minx, and, besides, she's engaged to Jimmy there, though heaven knows whether they'll ever get married.

Of course he turns up again, but such a physical wreck that the minx whom he was to have married breaks off the engagement.

The minx, Bel Alison, is so scathingly drawn that from sheer perversity I found myself hunting for one good point in her character; but without a find.

This "fashionable lover" promises marriage to a vulgar, malicious city minx named Lucinda Bridgemore, but is saved from this pitfall also.

" "The independent little minx!

She develops into a most unscrupulous minx, and, although we are led to suppose that her defects of character were largely due to her origin, I am prepared to allot to Sir Henry and Lady Daring, who adopted her, their fair share in the blame.

A girl of the sweet type, endowed liberally with virtues, is produced as an antidote to the minx, but is no match for her.

Sometimes the actress-in-miniature revolted, poor mite ("she should have been in the nursery, the minx," says some practical reader) and then noble Thomas would give vent to an awful threat.

Its story turned upon the marriage of the elderly Lord Brumpton to a designing young minx who estranges the nobleman from his son, Lord Hardy, the gentlemanly, poverty-stricken leading man of the piece.

The mind of the minx.

The mind of a minx.

The mind of a minx.

The mind of the minx.

I'm just afraid some pretty minx" She laughed and added: "But I won't care if she's a rebel minx.

I'm just afraid some pretty minx" She laughed and added: "But I won't care if she's a rebel minx.

"She's a ve'y sweet little minx. . . .

I see it plainly, you minx, and I acquiesce because, it delights me to give you pleasure, even at the cost of some dignity.

And this was because the minx knew well that I never could abide Katrin Texel, a girl all running to seed like a shot stalk of rhubarb, who would end up in the neighborhood of six foot in height, and just that "fine figure of a woman" which I never could abide.

Now, Mrs. Carroll, Mr. Grey's sister, had long since shown that she was not submissive enough, nor were the girls, the eldest of whom was a pert, ugly, well-grown minx, now about eighteen years old.

The funeral could not be postponed, even for Desmond; but he grew ill-humored at once, swore at Murphy, who was packing a waiter at the sideboard, for rattling the plates; called Ann a minx, because she laughed at him; and bit a cigar to pieces because he could not light it.

And she, too, was looking into my eyes, while we whispered together, and the sly minx read my thoughts, I know, by the look of her.

"The jade turns like a fox in his tracks, and it would be easier to convict a merchant who values his reputation, of a false invoice, than this minx of nineteen of an indiscretion!

Do we say   minks   or  minx