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