Little Foxes, The

American  

noun

1. a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.

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Example Sentences

But if “Watch on the Rhine” lacks some of the more enjoyable spite and bile of “The Little Foxes” — the Hellman drama that earlier this season launched Arena’s mini-festival of the playwright’s work — its unvarnished righteousness also comes across at this particular instant as kind of refreshing.

From Washington Post

Well, as the text says, little foxes, the pet foxes of good people, unsuspected little animals,—on the whole, often thought to be really creditable little beasts, that may do good, and at all events cannot do much harm.

From Project Gutenberg

“Take us the little foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines,” she quoted to herself; “not that that music-boy would do much in the destructive line, but the principle is good.”

From Project Gutenberg

Thus in swift succession we find, not only charming little idylls here and there like her story of "Hum the Son of Buzz" in the "Young Folks Magazine," being the tale of her captured and tamed humming-bird, but also "Little Foxes," "The Chimney-Corner," a volume of collected Poems, "Oldtown Folks," "Sam Lawson's Fireside Tales" and others, following with tireless rapidity, bearing the same stamp of living sympathy with difficulties of the time and breathing a spirit of helpfulness and faith.

From Project Gutenberg