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  • And dost thou not recollect how generously glad we were, as if our own case, that honest reynard, by the help of a lucky stile, over which both old and young tumbled upon one another, and

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Ah! He had been foxed, bewitched by reynard or _tanuki_

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

  • After many unsuccessful chases Billy recommended that the black reynard be let alone, saying he was near akin to another sable and wily character.

    George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

  • A pretty run would reynard give his pursuers, and often the shades of evening would be falling ere the hunters would return to Elmwood, a tired, bedraggled and hungry group.

    In Ancient Albemarle Catherine Albertson 1938

  • Than three-parts mutton, with a strain of reynard --

    Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

  • After many unsuccessful chases Billy recommended that the black reynard be let alone, saying he was near akin to another sable and wily character.

    George Washington Farmer Haworth, Paul L 1915

  • But reynard had his reasons for what he did; he had spied

    The Purple Land 1881

  • What a clear, nervous track reynard makes! how easy to distinguish it from that of a little dog, -- it is so sharply cut and defined!

    In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

  • In vain huntsman Trochu and his first whip, Ducrot, blow their horns, and crack their whips; the wily reynard, after putting his nose outside his retreat, heads back, and makes for inaccessible fastnesses, with which long habit has made him familiar.

    Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871

  • The animal's ear is keen; the slightest defect in the imitation betrays the trap, and away canters alarmed reynard at railroad speed.

    Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

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