"Silver fox" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was to be called the Silver Fox was almost complete, lacking just three members; and those who made up ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound - A Tour on Skates and Iceboats • George A. Warren
... not in whom or what she might meet, but in herself. Judith, smoking a cigarette in a mist of silver fox, was plainly excited. "I like Markue ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer
... curiosities, the young people were shown a few specimens of different kinds of furs: as those of the beaver, ermine, sable, martin, fiery fox, black fox, silver fox, and squirrel. Austin wished to know all at once, where, and in what way these fur animals were caught; and, with this end in view, he contrived to get the hunter into conversation on the subject. "I suppose," said he, "that you know all about beavers, and martins, ...
— History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians • George Mogridge
... food ungraciously. A tame young elk walked in and out of the cabin door, and during supper it tried to push me off my chair. A half-tame mountain sheep practised jumping from the ground to the roof. The cabin was papered with posters of a circus, and skins of bear and silver fox lay upon the floor. Until nine o'clock one man talked to the Virginian, and one played gayly upon a concertina; and then we all went to bed. The air was like December, but in my blankets and a buffalo robe I kept warm, and luxuriated in the Rocky Mountain silence. Going to wash before breakfast ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... Panther" in this tale is in reality the same beast as "the talking silver fox" in No. 49, and the fairy-tale is made up of motives to be found in "Little Red Riding-Hood," "The Wolf and the Seven ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various
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