Wolves Sentence Examples

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  • The fact is, when wolves attack a herd, they always take the weakest animal.

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  • We do not smell like other wolves for protection.

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  • A few wolves are also found.

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  • It is to distinguish them from the grey, or timber, wolves that coyotes have received the name of "prairie-wolves"; the two titles indicating the nature of the respective habitats of the two species.

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  • All wolves are governed by the ruling pack into which I was born.

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  • Wolves also are not found in the island, though common in Greece and Asia Minor.

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  • The domestic dogs of some North American Indian tribes closely resemble the coyote; the black wolfdog of Florida resembles the black wolf of the same region; the sheepdogs of Europe and Asia resemble the wolves of those countries, whilst the pariah dog of India is closely similar to the Indian wolf.

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  • The ordinary colour of the wolf is yellowish or fulvous grey, but almost pure white and entirely black wolves are known.

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  • Bears, mountain lions (pumas), wild cats (lynx) and wolves haunt the more remote fastnesses of the mountains; foxes abound; deer are found in many districts and moose in the north.

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  • Occasionally it is still stated in the press that wolves have been seen in the Ardennes, but this is a mere fiction.

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  • It's a black t shirt that features three wolves howling at a full moon.

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  • Bears, wolves, bison, deer, wild turkeys and wild pigeons were common in the primeval forests of Ohio, but they long ago disappeared.

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  • Hyenas, wolves and panthers are found in most parts of the country, and in the mountains the leopard and wild cat.

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  • I've heard of wolves morphing in dire situations, but always thought they were just stories.

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  • Bears, wild boars, hares, wolves, foxes and wild cats are very common, and in the north sables are found in great numbers.

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  • As regards the fauna, the Carpathians still contain numerous bears, wolves and lynxes, as well as birds of prey.

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  • Reindeer, followed by wolves, come also every year to the islands; the polar fox and polar bear, both feeding on the lemmings, are numerous.

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  • The wolves' heart and toes contain magnets so the two halves can become one.

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  • Excluding some varieties of domestic dogs, wolves are the largest members of the genus, and have a wide geographical range, extending over nearly the whole of Europe and Asia, and North America from Greenland to Mexico, but are not found in South America or Africa, where they are replaced by other members of the family.

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  • To judge by the osteological remains which the researches of geologists have brought to light, there was perhaps scarcely a county in England or Wales in which, at one time or another, wolves did not abound, while in Scotland and Ireland they must have been still more numerous.

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  • There is a well-known story of the last of the race being killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680, but there is evidence of wolves having survived in Sutherlandshire and other parts into the following century (perhaps as late as 1743), though the date of their final extinction cannot be accurately fixed.

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  • In Ireland, in Cromwell's time, wolves were particularly troublesome, and said to be increasing in numbers, so that special measures were taken for their destruction, such as the offering of large rewards for their heads, and the prohibition (in 1652) of the exportation of "wolf-dogs," the large dogs used for hunting the wolves.

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  • Among the more common species of game are squirrels, opossums, musk-rats, rabbits, racoons, wild turkeys, ", partridges" (quail, or Bob White), geese, and ducks; deer, black bears, grey (or timber) wolves, black wolves and "wild cats" (lynx), once common, have become rare.

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  • Originally great herds of bison roamed over the Texas plains, and deer, bears and wolves were numerous, especially in the forests.

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  • Besides the wolf proper a large number of prairie or dog wolves from America and Asia are used for cheaper rugs.

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  • Centuries of fighting against the Moors and Castilians had already left Portugal thinly populated.; large tracts of land were uncultivated, especially in Alemtejo, and wolves were still common throughout the kingdom.

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  • It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge, falsely so called, have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ.

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  • Wolves (C. Bengalensis) are formidable in the wilder tracts, and assemble in troops on the snow, destroying cattle and sometimes attacking single horsemen.

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  • He did this because he thought the hatred for Germany would create a negative feeling toward the breed, but it turned out that the hatred and fear of wolves was even worse than the bad feelings toward Germans at that time.

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  • Wolves are more numerous, though only in the mountainous districts; the flocks are protected against them by large white sheep-dogs, who have some wolf blood in them.

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  • It is singular that such closely allied species as the domestic dog and the Arctic fox are among the favourite prey of wolves, and, as is well known, children and even full-grown people are not infrequently the objects of their attack when pressed by hunger.

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  • Thus Echinococci contains a leucomaine which sets up an urticaria; Cysticercus tenuicollis occasions anaemia and death if injecte-1 into rabbits; and the cystic fluid of the common Coenurus serialis is said to be used by Kirghizes to poison wolves.

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  • In late days the Greeks report that KuvES (dogs) were the sacred animals of Anubis while those of Ophois were Aukoc (wolves).

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  • A large part of the province was given up to pasture, and the mountains were covered with forests, which abounded in wild boars, bears and wolves.

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  • This he found at Phthiotis in Thessaly, where he surprised some wolves eating sheep; on his approach they fled, leaving him the bones.

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  • Deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, wolves, and both black and grizzly bears are seen by many visitors.

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  • Ranging from Canada in the north to Guatemala in the south, and chiefly frequenting the open plains on both sides of the chain of the Rocky Mountains, the coyote, under all its various local phases, is a smaller animal than the true wolf, and may apparently be regarded as the New World representative of the jackals, or perhaps, like the Indian wolf (C. pallipes), as a type intermediate between wolves and jackals.

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  • In the 18th century wolves still roamed the country in such large numbers that hunting parties were organized against them; now they are unknown.

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  • The Carnivora include bears, wolverines, wolves, raccoons, foxes, sables, martens, skunks, kolinskis, fitch, fishers, ermines, cats, sea otters, fur seals, hair seals, lions, tigers, leopards, lynxes, jackals, &c. The Rodentia include beavers, nutrias, musk-rats or musquash, marmots, hamsters, chinchillas, hares, rabbits, squirrels, &c. The Ungulata include Persian, Astrachan, Crimean, Chinese and Tibet lambs, mouflon, guanaco, goats, ponies, &c. The Marsupialia include opossums, wallabies and kangaroos.

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  • The finest wolves are very light weighted and most suitable for carriage aprons, in fact, ideal for the purpose, though lacking the strength of some other furs.

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  • Thus "Canis vulpes Linnaeus" is the specific designation of the common fox, Canis being the generic term common to dogs, wolves and so forth, and vulpes indicating the particular species, whilst the attached author's name indicates that Linnaeus first named the species in question.

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  • Of wild animals, the pig, hyena, jackal, antelope and hare are extremely numerous; lions are still found, and wolves and foxes are not uncommon.

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  • Foxes, martens, weasels, badgers and otters are to be found everywhere; bears are found in the Alps, wolves are rare, but they find their way sometimes from French territory to the western provinces, or from Poland to Prussia and Posen.

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  • Wolves, once numerous, have now been almost extirpated, though a bounty on each head is still paid.

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  • Wolves are rare.

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  • Thus he invented nets for catching wolves and built innumerable water-mills, " for he would not let the waters run into the sea before they had been of use to the community."

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  • Bears, wolves, foxes, boars and various varieties of game are found, and on some of the mountains the chamois.

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  • Many of the original wild animals, such as the bison, bear, beaver, deer and lynx, have disappeared; wolves, foxes and mink are rare; but rabbits, squirrels and raccoons are still common.

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  • Wolves (Canis lupus) abound throughout the open country, but are rare in the wooded districts.

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  • Wolves are numerous in the mountains; the heron, ibis, wild goose and snipe in the valley of the Wei.

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  • When the cave was first entered, the floor was covered with thousands of tracks of raccoons, wolves and bears-most of them probably made long ago, as impressions made in the tenacious clay that composes most of the cavern floor would remain unchanged for centuries.

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  • Wolves and foxes are found alike in the coldest and hottest parts of the earth, as are closely allied species of falcons, owls, sparrows and numerous genera of waders and aquatic birds.

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  • Mannhardt sees in the ceremony an allusion to certain agricultural rites, the object of which was to prevent the failure of the crops and to avert pestilence (or to protect them and the flocks against the ravages of wolves).

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  • Wild dogs (Cyon) are common, but neither foxes nor wolves occur in the forest area.

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  • Wolves are found in the wilder parts of the Serra da Estrella, and wild boars are preserved in some districts.

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  • We shall be left as a prey to the wolves that will besides drive our greatest patron [the king of] to stoop to a peace which will be the utter ruin of our edifice, this many years in building."

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  • Formerly bears, wolves and other wild animals took refuge in its fastnesses; and bats, rats, mice and salamanders are frequent visitors.

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  • Roe-deer, foxes and wolves find shelter in the forests, where bears are not uncommon; and chamois frequent the loftiest and most inaccessible peaks.

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  • In accordance with this, the epithet -yEvns will not mean "born of" or "begetting light," but rather "born from the she-wolf," in which form Leto herself was said to have been conducted by wolves to Delos.

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  • This danger has been increased, as elsewhere in Italy, by indiscriminate timber-felling on the higher mountains without provision for re-afforestation, though considerable oak, beech, elm and pine forests still exist and are the home of wolves, wild boars and even bears.

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  • In the mountain forests of south-western Oregon bears, deer, elk, pumas, wolves and foxes are plentiful.

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  • Bears, wolves, lynxes and foxes are also numerous in the east, and there the coyote is found in disagreeable numbers.

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  • The fauna originally included buffalo, elk, deer, wolves, bear, lynx, beaver, otter, porcupine and puma, but civilization has driven them all out entirely.

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  • Foxes, wolves and Syrian bears are not infrequently met with, and there is a heavy dew or night mist.

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  • Deer were found in large numbers in all sections of the state, bear were common in the central and northern parts, bison were found in the south-west, wolves, lynx ("wild cats"), and foxes and other smaller animals particularly of fur-bearing varieties.

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  • In the forests wolves were frequent, and still are found, the flocks being protected against them by large sheep-dogs; bears, however, which were known in Roman times, have almost entirely disappeared.

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  • The jackal is characteristic of the steppes; it banishes the wolves and foxes.

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  • A few bears and wild boars and lynxes find shelter in the remoter forests, with many badgers, wolves, foxes, wildcats, martens and weasels.

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  • It may, however, be mentioned that Giraldus Cambrensis and the Speculum Regale state in all seriousness that certain of the inhabitants of Ossory were able at will to assume the form of wolves, and similar stories are not infrequent in Irish romance.

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  • The forests abounded in game, the red deer and wild boar were common, whilst wolves ravaged the flocks.

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  • The chase in the summer occupied the freemen, not only as a source of enjoyment but also as a matter of necessity, for wolves were very numerous.

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  • Foxes, bears, wolves, lynx (wild cats) and otters are very rare, and pumas (panthers) and beavers long ago disappeared.

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  • Fauna.-The animal kingdom embraces, besides the usual domestic animals (as horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, asses, &c.), wild boars, deer, wild goats, hares, &c.; also bears, wolves, lynxes, foxes, wild cats, jackals, otters, beavers, polecats, martens, weasels and the like.

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  • Bears are confined to the Atlas region, wolves and foxes to North Africa.

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  • Thus Rome allowed the wolves to mingle with the dogs in watching over the flock, just at a time when the civil wars of the 4th century had denuded the Rhenish frontier of troops, whose numbers had already been diminished by Constantine.

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  • Before the advent of the white man Nebraska was full of wild mammals, the buffalo, elk, black and white tailed deer, antelope, bears, timber wolves, panthers (pumas), lynx, otter and mink being common.

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  • Almost all that remain are black bears, foxes, coyotes (prairie wolves), mink, musk-rats, raccoons and prairie dogs (or gophers).

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  • So far I don't think I have a problem, but I have to consider those other ranchers when I decide how many wolves this land can support.

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  • One was a remarkable effort by a dedicated team showing wolves hunting wild bison in the remotest regions of northern Canada.

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  • The company also sells zoological formulas for carnivorous wild animals such as bears, lions, wolves, crocodiles and eagles.

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  • This tribal art rendition depicts two stylized wolves that are decorated with black enamel tattoos on gold-plated metal.

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  • The side profile of the wolves depicts them holding a heart between them.

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  • It's a life simulator where you keep a pack of wolves surviving day by day.

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  • You spend a lot of time traveling through different locations and encountering wolves, Orcs, Minotaurs, Giants and other powerful foes.

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  • Use melee combat, bows, magical instruments and creature taming abilities to defeat giants, orcs, dwarves, wolves and other dangerous foes.

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  • The Livs and Letts were as much the prey of the Lithuanians "as sheep are the prey of wolves."

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  • The extensive woods in the south part of the province harbour a few wolves and lynxes, and the elk is still preserved in the forest of Ibenhorst, near the Kurisches Haff.

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  • The wolves had spent most of the night in their hiding place, whining eagerly whenever they'd heard a goat bleat.

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  • He takes the full brunt of the wolves ' attack.

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  • Are you off to Molineux tomorrow to watch the clarets take on Wolves in our first away game of the season?

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  • Then in the 35th minute he took advantage of a scuffed clearance by Oakes and slotted the ball home past the Wolves goalie.

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  • Wolves kill the smaller coyote and they are known to kill cougars.

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  • With the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990's numerous sites can be found entirely devoted to wolves.

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  • The band are good, ' Wolves ' like a Tom Waits with tribal drums and howling harmonies.

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  • Wildlife includes elk, deer, brown bears and wolves.

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  • The wolves, snowy owls and arctic foxes, buffalo to be found with many others at the Highland Wildlife Park.

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  • Tired legs, a sore groin and weary calves kept him on the bench also for Wolves draw with Sheff Utd.

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  • Sheffield United travel to the Capital to face Millwall at the New Den after beating promotion hopeful 's Wolves 1-0 at Bramall Lane.

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  • The mammals include moose, wild boar, deer, beavers, wolves, badgers, otters and lynx.

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  • Wolves, occupying a similar ecological niche to humans, may give us insight into our own mental life.

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  • Two second half goals from Kenny Miller secured victory for Wolves against an already relegated Rotherham side.

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  • The defense was smothering, and even after Wolves Ty Shaw went to the free throw line, they were still scoreless.

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  • All three were thrown into the action in the 2-1 win away at Wolves with Jermaine Wright scoring a 20-yard screamer on his debut.

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  • Two years of mickey taking has finally caught up with the Wolves fan today.

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  • Clarke struck in the 26th minute to seal the win for Wolves in what was an otherwise tepid cup tie.

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  • Injury Update Wolves midfielder Shaun Newton went to hospital yesterday to have an in-growing toenail removed.

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  • The question then arises as to whether wolves living where livestock are plentiful all year round also show livestock toleration.

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  • I met him in Portugal in July 2001 when Wolves went over there for a pre-season tour.

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  • Only the remaining Wolves, with desirable traits, would have been selected to breed.

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  • But our defensive frailties again reared their heads and Wolves ran out deserved 3-2 victors.

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  • A fee of around £ 800,000 has been agreed for the defender, now wolves just need to finalize personal terms with the player.

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  • Wolves fielded nine players with first team experience, but despite rattling the woodwork twice, came away from the game empty handed.

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  • In the arid valleys coyotes (prairie wolves), rabbits and badgers are found.

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  • Robinson was Wolves longest serving player after working his way up to the first team from the Youth Academy.

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  • A fee of around £ 800,000 has been agreed for the defender, now Wolves just need to finalize personal terms with the player.

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  • The fossil remains which have been discovered in Britain are not larger than, nor in any way to be distinguished from, the corresponding bones and teeth of European wolves of the present day.

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  • As is well known, great efforts were made by King Edgar to reduce the number of wolves in the country, but, notwithstanding the annual tribute of 300 skins paid to him during several years by the king of Wales, he was not altogether so successful as has been commonly imagined.

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  • Some of the islets were still uninhabited, covered with a dense low growth which served as cover for game and even for wolves.

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  • The Eskimo dog has been regarded as nothing more than a reclaimed wolf, and the Eskimo are stated to maintain the size and strength of their dogs by crossing them with wolves.

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  • What in popular usage are spoken of as the instincts of animals, for example, the hunting of prey by foxes and wolves, or the procedure of ants in their nests, are generally joint products of hereditary and acquired factors.

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  • They cover their houses late every autumn with fresh mud, which, freezing when the frost sets in, becomes almost as hard as stone, so that neither wolves nor wolverines can disturb their repose.

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  • In a very lengthy speech, which had to be interrupted for half an hour while he recovered his voice, he ended by describing it as a "war budget" against poverty, which he hoped, in the result, would become "as remote to the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests."

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  • In all this the Anabaptists had maintained one central article of faith that linked them to the Zwickau prophets, belief in conscience, religious feeling, or inner light, as the sole true beginning or ground of religion; and one other article, held with equal vigour and sincerity, that true Christians are like sheep among wolves, and must on no account defend themselves from their enemies or take vengeance for wrong done.

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  • But nobody was wronged; his creditors were all paid in time, and his hands were at least clean of traffic in reversions, clerkships, tellerships and all the rest of the rich sinecures which it was thought no shame in those days for the aristocracy of the land and the robe to wrangle for, and gorge themselves upon, with the fierce voracity of famishing wolves.

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  • Do you ever shoot any wolves?

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  • Teutonic legend does not lightly exaggerate, and what to us seems incredible in it may be easily conceived as credible to those by whom and for whom the tales were told; that Sigmund and his son Sinfiotli turned themselves into wolves would be but a sign of exceptional powers to those who believed in werewolves; Fafnir assuming the form of a serpent would be no more incredible to the barbarous Teuton than the similar transformation of Proteus to the Greek.

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  • These do not hunt in packs, but will sometimes singly attack a bullock; they and the wolves make havoc among sheep. A favourite feat of the boldest of the young men of southern Afghanistan is to enter the hyena's den, single-handed, muffle and tie him.

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  • Some fighting Catholics haunted woods and hills under the name of tories, afterwards given in derision to a great party, and were hunted down with as little compunction as the wolves to which they were compared.

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  • They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease.

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  • He says, Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep 's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

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  • In these two days we saw how people who had once been good human beings had turned into ravening wolves.

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  • For Christ commands, Beware of false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, yet inwardly are ravenous wolves !

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  • Prince of Wolves, her first romance novel, was the result.

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  • The bible talks about " savage wolves " who " will not spare the flock ".

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  • The return of Lescott, sidelined by injury last season, has strengthened Wolves ' defense.

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  • I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.

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  • New Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has strengthened his squad with the signings of Jamie Clapham and Karl Henry.

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  • Matt Derbyshire gave Blackburn a second minute lead with a shot that took a wicked deflexion on its way past Wolves keeper Carl Ikeme.

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  • Maintenance of genetic identity of locally adapted races is a responsibility of agencies which plan to reintroduce wolves into the wild.

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  • Being hunters, they carried their rifles with them, in case they got a chance to kill some wolves.

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  • Only 500 of the beautiful Ethiopian wolves survive, high in the Bale Mountains, which are 3,000m above sea level.

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  • Jesus spoke of ravening wolves in sheep 's clothing.

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  • Hell, he might as well of been raised by vultures and ravenous wolves or even raised by Satan himself.

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  • The heads of dogs or wolves are incorporated in the zoomorphic design still recognizable on the cross-shaft.

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  • They called her "Wolf's Bane," because she killed many wolves.

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  • Images commonly seen in lodge decor include evergreen trees, pinecones and a variety of wildlife, including deer, elk, moose, bears, bison, wolves, eagles, and fish.

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  • Striking geometric designs are highlighted with stylized animals such as bears, elks, coyotes, and wolves.

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  • You can choose traditional animals to raise (cats, horses, dogs) or pick non-traditional ones (rats, butterfly wolves, 2nd-gen pets) and well as pets created by the webmasters, Malk and Nick.

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  • Yep, Mowgli, like that kid that was raised by wolves in The Jungle Book.

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  • Graham Greene - Graham Greene worked in Canada for much of his life, but it was his breakthrough role in the movie Dances With Wolves, co-starring Kevin Costner, that brought him to the forefront.

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  • By adding Alaska cruise tours onto standard seven-day cruise vacations, travelers can explore the state's interior and come face to face with many natural delights, including wolves, caribou, moose, bears, and more.

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  • With few predators, elk populations rose tremendously, until by the time wolves were reintroduced in 1995, there were as many as 35,000 elk in the park during the summer.

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  • The children's zoo has black bears, red wolves and beavers, as well as the fun Treetop Canopy Climbing Adventure.

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  • This was the first trailer that featured Italy's ancient family of vampires, along with displaying much more of the LaPush wolves.

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  • Yet it was Dances with Wolves that won Best Picture.

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  • When they found the mutilated carcasses, many thought that they resembled animals attacked by wolves, yet locals knew that there were no wolves in the vicinity.

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  • According to myth, they have the ability to change shape from human beings into anthropomorphic wolves whenever there is a full moon.

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  • There are also stories of Christian saints turning people into wolves as punishment, and at one time, it was believed that people excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church became werewolves.

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  • These tattoos can range from "typical" Native American pictures, such as wolves and feathers, up to other images that are associated with parts of the country that were settled by Native Americans.

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  • You may want to wear something comfortable around the house and since you love wolves, you want your clothing to reflect that.

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  • Favorite Fabrics carries fabrics that feature running wolves.

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  • However you choose to express your love for wolves, if you want to do it with wolf print loungewear, there's something that's sure to satisfy you.

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  • The movie climaxes in a major battle of man and beast, and other minor scenes feature the White Witch's cruelty toward the captive Edmund and the attack of a fox by a pack of wolves.

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  • The Tri-Cities area doesn't have many bears or wolves, but it's thick with coyotes.

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  • The trio was far more comfortable now, six months later, with enough money in the bank to keep the wolves away, and expectations, if not of prosperity, of at least a reasonably comfortable coming season.

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  • They cursed the wolves, but both enjoyed their time being prisoners in their own home.

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  • The organization modeled these wolves after the British version.

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  • Do you lose many cattle to wolves?

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  • So far, deer and rabbits are easier for a few wolves to pull down than a healthy cow, but if the pack gets too big they may go after cattle.

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  • The problem with that is, if I can get to you easily, so can all the other wolves.

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  • The crater is densely overgrown with oaks and beeches which harbour wild boars and wolves.

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  • Carnivora are also numerous, particularly the frequenters of cold climates, such as bears, weasels, wolves and foxes.

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  • Black bears, wolves and deer are not yet extinct, and more rarely a " wild cat " (lynx) or " panther " (puma) is seen in the swamps.

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  • Coyotes or prairie wolves (of which there is a local sub-species, Canis nebracensis texensis), grey wolves, prairie dogs (gophers), and jack rabbits are common on the plains; less common are the grey wolf or lobo (Canis griseus) and the timber wolf; and there are several species of foxes, including the swift.

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  • They say she has a family of young wolves up there; and that is why she kills so many lambs.

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  • All around lay the flesh of different animals--from men to horses--in various stages of decomposition; and as the wolves were kept off by the passing men the dog could eat all it wanted.

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  • So you're saying the wolves improve your herd by culling out the weakest animals?

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  • I'll be watching the wolves circle you.

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  • In Edward II.'s time, the king's forest of the Peak, in Derbyshire, is especially mentioned as infested with wolves, and it was not until the reign of Henry VII.

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  • The rapid settling of the state drove its native fauna, which comprised buffalo, deer, moose, bear, lynx and wolves, in great numbers into the northern sections, westward into Dakota, or across the Canadian border.

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  • Then again, the ears are large in proportion to the head, the pupil of the eye is elliptical and vertical when in a strong light, and the female has six pairs of teats, in place of the three to five pairs found in dogs, wolves and jackals.

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  • The more important wild animals are a large wild sheep (Ovis poli), foxes, wolves, jackals, bears, boars, deer and leopards; amongst birds, there are partridges, pheasants, ravens, jays, sparrows, larks, a famous breed of hawks, &c.

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  • The bison, which once ranged the plains in large herds, have been exterminated; the moose and the elk are found only occasionally in the wilder regions; mountain sheep, antelope, black and grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes and lynx (" wild cats ") are also becoming rare.

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  • Here are found the lynx, the " mountain lion " or puma, the prairie and timber wolves, the jack rabbit, the prairie dog (gopher), the black, the brown and, occasionally, the grizzly bear.

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  • Bears, wolves, foxes, goats (kokmet), wild sheep (arkharis), lizards, earth-rats, and a small rodent (teshikan), with ravens, eagles, wild ducks and wild geese are the other varieties principally encountered.

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  • She was able by means of drugs and incantations to change human beings into the forms of wolves or lions, and with these beings her palace was surrounded.

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  • The fauna includes wild boars, wolves, foxes, badgers, partridges, quails and snipe.

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  • Here are to be found yak, wild asses (kyang), several varieties of deer, musk deer and Tibetan antelope (Pantholops); also wild sheep (the bharal of the Himalaya), Ovis hodgsoni and possibly Ovis poli, together with wild goats, bears (in large numbers in the north-eastern districts), leopards, otter, wolves, wild cats, foxes, marmots, squirrels, monkeys and wild dogs.

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  • The hares had already half changed their summer coats, the fox cubs were beginning to scatter, and the young wolves were bigger than dogs.

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  • He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong.

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  • They went inside the garden when these wolves swooped down, said the woman, pointing to the French soldiers.

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  • And as for the wolves, he says...

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  • Hares are uncommon, and the last reddeer was shot in 1814; but wolves, otters and squirrels abound.

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  • With the exception of certain South African species, foxes differ from wolves and jackals in that they do not associate in packs, but go about in pairs or are solitary.

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  • Wolves do not catch their prey by lying in ambush, or stealing up close and making a sudden spring, but by fairly running it down in open chase, which their speed and remarkable endurance enable them to do.

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  • The wild animals are bears, wolves, foxes, lynxes, wild cats, badgers, otters, martens, stoats and weasels.

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  • The destruction of cougars, lynx (" wildcats "), coyotes and wolves is encouraged by bounties.

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  • Are you lost or have the wolves eaten you?

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