Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
1Not a cony in all the rocks was so still.
2An Indian will eat a cony,-ifhe can catch it.
3At that moment a species of rabbit, or cony, chanced to hop round the corner of a rock.
4Barnum sold him several kinds, including "beaver" and "cony," and he then asked for some "Russia."
5The result was very effectual as regarded the cony, but it was not much to gurr about in the way of breakfast.
6The agouti, or Indian cony, or rabbit, frequents the same region as the paca, and is about the size of an ordinary hare.
7On the wildest and most desolate peaks and rock piles is found the cony or pika or "rock rabbit" as it is variously called.
8Here we cast anchor, and the small steam tender conies puffing alongside.
9I must wait for the wind that conies every three days.
10These little conies are wonderfully confiding in the way they use a fox-earth.
11A loud crashing sound conies from the direction of the dam.
12And so I fear will his majesty find-ifit conies to the worst.'
13Forgiveness of sins conies, therefore, at the very start of a right life.
14When she conies, I'll be a hundred miles away, and bound farther off.
15And then, a month later, conies another occasion of state-thetwenty-thirdAnnual Banquet.
16I said, 'Why, there's some poacher fellow popping at the conies!'