“She didn't comprehend what an alluring vixen she was, that she was playing games with highly combustible young males.”

“The Lord of the region has a quarrelsome vixen for a spouse.”

“In the summer, it used to be the gallant sailor's great delight to watch the vixen and her cubs at play.”

“Fox cubs are usually born in March, which means that pregnant and nursing vixens are hunted and killed by dogs.”

“Gibbons says the females, or vixens, have a disturbing habit of making bloodcurdling screams in winter.”

“It is obvious therefore that not only pregnant and nursing vixens are killed, but also the dog fox, on whom the vixen and cubs often rely for food.”