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Coyote

noun

Small wolf native to western North America. Synonyms: brush wolf, Canis latrans, prairie wolf.

Someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border).

A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time).

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"Coyote" Quotes from Famous Books

... network of the trestle was a maze of incised lines against the shaded bank opposite. A solitary bird, astir beyond its bedtime, hovered against the sky, cheeping to unseen brood below. Some swift-vanishing creature—wolf or coyote—ran along the edge of the distant bank for a fearful, curious glimpse of the persistent invasion of its venerable privacy. The sun, like a mocking challenge, was painting with flaming hand its tremendous but fleeting colour-picture ...

— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

... do that an' not have nerve enough to shoot a coyote. Him not clashin' with Ben Radford ...

— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer

... a sudden and unexpected attack on the town of Coyote Hill, forty miles from here, last night, and did much damage before the surprised settlers rallied and drove them off. The red skins met with heavy losses. Among the whites killed are a man named William Beaver, sometimes ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various

... the locomotive has drowned the howl of the coyote; the barb-wire fence has narrowed the range of the cow-puncher; but no material evidence of prosperity can obliterate our contribution ...

— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore

... silent life that, through long years, the desert had taught to endure its hardships was there—the lizard, horned- toad, lean jack-rabbit, gaunt coyote, and their kind. Only the hard growth that the ages had evolved dotted the floor of the Basin in the near distance—the salt-bush and greasewood, with here and there ...

— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright

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