Careful Words

wolf (n.)

wolf (v.)

  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

Old Testament: Isaiah xi. 6.

The wolfe from the dore.

John Skelton (Circa 1460-1529): Colyn Cloute. Line 1531.

  I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

George Chapman (1557-1634): Eastward Ho. Act v. Sc. 1.

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Destruction of Sennacherib.