she-wolf
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"She's so inspiring to women," says one fan, wearing furry she-wolf ears, shortly before the show.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
The other two are named Romulus and Remus, after the mythical founders of Rome said to have been suckled by a she-wolf as infants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
In one meme, a boar replaces the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus, Rome’s mythical forefathers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2022
The she-wolf had been out hunting, and when she returned with food, she growled and snarled at the boy.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2018
Mamá’s eyes flashed, her nostrils flared, and her mouth was set into a straight thin line, like a she-wolf snarling fiercely as she protected her cubs.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
There is a self-conscious playfulness to a movement that inspires women to identify with she-wolves constructed from discarded bones or brand themselves witches on social media despite an illiteracy with spellcraft.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
These tend to be named after animals: snails, porcupines, she-wolves.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
However, while Kress’s account of the she-wolves cannot be corroborated, his broadsheet offers some tantalizing suggestions about the perception and creation of early modern werewolves.
From Time ● May 27, 2015
If the story of Stubbe Peter is somewhat dubious, the tale of the Jülich she-wolves borders on absurd.
From Time ● May 27, 2015
Those whom she-wolves suckle Will bite as wolves do in the grapple-closing Of adverse interests.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
