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Grey wolf   /greɪ wʊlf/   Listen
Grey wolf

noun
1.
A wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America.  Synonyms: Canis lupus, gray wolf, timber wolf.






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"Grey wolf" Quotes from Famous Books



... Moon, moon, gold-horned moon, Cheek the flight of bullets, blunt the hunters' knives, Break the shepherds' cudgels, Cast wild fear upon all cattle, On men, on all creeping things, That they may not catch the grey wolf, That they may not rend his warm skin My word is binding, more binding than sleep, More binding than the promise ...
— The Book of Were-Wolves • Sabine Baring-Gould

... a pressed cheese, delicate as the lamb, Wild as the heifer, soft as summer grapes! If sweet sleep chain me, here thou walk'st at large; If sweet sleep loose me, straightway thou art gone, Scared like a sheep that sees the grey wolf near. I loved thee, maiden, when thou cam'st long since, To pluck the hyacinth-blossom on the fell, Thou and my mother, piloted by me. I saw thee, see thee still, from that day forth For ever; but 'tis naught, ay naught, ...
— Theocritus • Theocritus



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