He had never felt in him before the desire to runnot even on that terrible day in the forest when he had fought and killed the big gray lynx.

Once he had fought a lynx in a trap, and he had not forgotten the lesson the battle had taught him.

and yields such instances, to believe which I was always afraid lest I should be thought to give credit to fables, until I saw a lynx which I had from Assyria, so affected towards one of my men, that it cannot be denied but that he was in love with him.

When the snows were deep and soft the wolves took to hunting the lynxes,big, savage, long-clawed fighters that swarm in the interior of Newfoundland and play havoc with the small game.

And Mænas, when, with ivy-bridles bound, She led the spotted lynx, then Evion rang around, Evion from woods and floods repeating Echo's sound.' (Dryden).

"I have lost seven lynx in the traps, torn to pieces like they were no more than rabbits that the foxes had killed.

He fought to pull the lynx down, instead of forcing it on its back, as he would have done with another dog or a wolf.

We went by the taverne, or wine shop, which had a sign over its doora creature remotely resembling a blue lynx.

On either side of him ran a lynx and an adder, and right beside the snake fluttered a mother grouse who was hurrying along with her little downy chicks.

Henri shot the lynx, and when Kazan understood this, he tore at the end of his trap-chains and snarled at the writhing body of his forest enemy.

They will drive me out unless I get them, for I have taken only five good lynx, an' they have destroyed seven.

Away off therebeyond the lynx and the fox and the fisher-cat, were the creatures of their kind, the wild-wolf pack, to which the right to all flesh and blood was commonin which existed that savage socialism of the wilderness, the Brotherhood of the Wolf.

A man from civilization would have said that the dog was approaching the lynx with friendly intentions.

There were no human signs there; here a woodcock had peppered the mud with little holes, probing for worms; there a raccoon had picked his way; yonder a lynx had left the great padded mark of its foot, doubtless watching for yonder mink nosing us from the bank of the still pool below.

No thingnot even bearhave ever tackled lynx in a trap before.

On the third day they came to a trap that had held a lynx, and at sight of what remained Henri cursed in both French and English until he was purple in the face.