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old and fox
Realizing what has happened from a bird, he goes to Catchfools and tells the judge, an old Gorilla, about the fox and cat.
:... a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes ; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard ; disgraced by a neck an inch long ; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair ; in color an Ethiopian ; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night ; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet ; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age ; shod with Sicyonian shoes ; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses.
Colonel Banastre Tarleton was sent to capture or kill Marion in November 1780 ; he despaired of finding the " old swamp fox ", who eluded him by travelling along swamp paths.
It was Tarleton who gave Marion his nom de guerre when, after unsuccessfully pursuing Marion's troops for over 26 miles through a swamp, he gave up and swore " s for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him.
His brave attempt ( the motion was defeated by 196 to 73, Disraeli the old fox abstaining ) was greeted with smiles from the average man, guffaws from Punch ( one joke showed a group of gentlemen besieging a female Cabinet Minister, haw haw haw ), and disappearing frowns from a sad majority of educated women, who maintained that their influence was best exerted from home.
* Bulyeowoo ( 불여우 )-A fox that is more than 100 years old, and can be disguised as a woman.
Lenny was made from an old fox fur and papier-mâché, with a golf ball for the nose.
I, like an old fox, doubled, and fell on their rear.
However, this term in addition to other cases ( 老狐狸 " lǎohúli " (" old fox ") the " lǎo " indicates fear or discomfort.
Clipped four year old male wire fox terrier
The whole Regiment wears a variation of the running fox cap badge of the old East Riding Yeomanry.
The process of how dogs were domesticated is best illustrated by the experiments undertaken by Dmitri Belyaev in the old Soviet Union with the silver fox, which eventually created the domesticated silver fox.
The picture changed, though, when we bred our four ' originals ' with our well-trained old hunting fox terriers.
Another tale relates that as a student, a young fox would take his writings to his master, until it was old enough to eat his satchel.
* Joseph, the Facilitator who " recruited " Mendoza for the Company, is an ancient operative, a sly old fox who mistakenly believes the world has no surprises left for him.
Ocean-thousand-mountain-thousand means a sly old fox or someone who has had all sorts of experience in life so that s / he can handle, or wiggle out of, any difficult situations through cunning alone.
Cornwallis said, " We've got the old fox safe now.
His record is only surpassed by the “ old fox ” of the Honduran National Soccer League, Carlos Padilla Velasquez.
** During a visit to the Fushimi Inari shrine during the spring of 1071, the Emperor Go-Sanjō awarded the title myōbu to an old fox at a shrine to a female deity.

old and Uncle
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.
St-Laurent was initially very well received by the Canadian public, but by 1957, " Uncle Louis " and his government began to appear tired, old and out of touch.
Disconcerted and confused, he and Casy meet their old neighbor, Muley Graves, who tells them that the family has gone to stay at Uncle John Joad's home nearby.
The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.
: For my part, I was never an admirer of Uncle Tom, nor of his type of goodness ; but I believe that there were lots of old Negroes as foolishly good as he ; the proof of which is that they knowingly stayed and worked on the plantations that furnished sinews for the army which was fighting to keep them enslaved .”
Crane wrote his first known story, " Uncle Jake and the Bell Handle ", when he was 14 years old.
" I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person ," Disney is quoted as saying, " as should also the young boy to whom Harris ' old Negro philosopher relates his vivid stories of the Briar Patch.
The site of the academy and old Spencerville was located less than 1, 000 yards from the current southern border of Pushmataha County, and it is entirely possible Uncle Wallace resided in Pushmataha County.
" Disappointed, Dunn said that he still had to file a story on the vice-presidential nomination, and then added: " I believe I'll write a piece about old Uncle Adlai.
After his graduation from Walden, Zonker eventually enrolled in " The Baby Doc College of Physicians " ( which was run by Uncle Duke, an old family friend ).
Many generations have known him as " Uncle Jack ," but he always lived to see them grow old and die, while he remained young.
* Uncle Freddy-( William Hickey ) Johnny's Neighbor, seemingly a harmless old kook but really an old-time mob boss
: Lilliburlero, old Uncle Sam,
: Lilliburlero, old Uncle Sam.
: That don't appear ," says old Uncle Sam,
: That don't appear ," says old Uncle Sam.
: Lilliburlero, old Uncle Sam,
: Lilliburlero, old Uncle Sam.
: I'd like to hear ," says old Uncle Sam,
: I'd like to hear ," says old Uncle Sam.
: Lilliburlero, old Uncle Sam,
: Lilliburlero, old Uncle Sam.

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