Meaning of foxlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A young fox.

Examples

“The little fox will grow⟳ a big fox, / Provided God will grant him life; / But to release⟳ him in the meantime / I think⟳ would be foolish indeed. / Two foxes that were but foxlets, as yet, / Quite young little things, / Were captured by chance / By the good Doctor Grumberg / On the Isles of Spitzbergen.”

“It flashed on me that I had come⟳ a month / Too late for trapping, that foxlets in the spring⟳ / May grow⟳ sharp teeth with the passing of a moon . . .”

“I remember⟳ reading while I was pregnant about emotions, and how I would become⟳ eloquently compassionate towards all living things, like⟳ the mother fox who ushers an orphaned bear⟳ cub to her breast with her other tiny foxlets.”

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