"Foxy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Foxy Mr. Hennage! It was quite true. He hadn't said a word! Ah, money talks; despite his precautions, Harley P.'s ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... care was observed during the night, as the Illyas were known to be very foxy, and half the force was detailed to ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages • Roger Thompson Finlay
... three, which led from the outer hall to the apartments in which I could hear the murmur of women's voices. And it was lucky that I did so. For even as I reached the door a sharp cry of terror came from within, and there at the inner portal I caught sight of a narrow, foxy, peering visage, and a lean, writhing figure, prone like a worm on its belly. The rascal had been crawling towards Helene's room, for what purpose I know not. Nor did I stop to inquire, for, being stung by the taunt ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... square miles, but you will not thereby prevent a fellow who has the bite of drink from boozing himself mad whenever he likes. As for stopping a woman by such merely mechanical means as the closing of public-houses, the idea is ridiculous to anybody who knows the foxy cunning, the fixed determination of a female soaker. It is a great moral and physical problem that we want to solve, and Bills and clauses are only so much ink and paper which are ineffective as a schoolboy's copybook. If a man ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... out of sight, ran a mile and a half, headed him off, then came on him from the north, but in spite of all I could do by running and yelling, he and his band (3 cows with 3 calves) rushed galloping between me and the lake, 75 yards away. He was too foxy to be driven back into that ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton
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