| 单词 | musquash |
| 例句 | Equally curious with these are his descriptions of the “beasts living in the water,” as the otter, musquash, &c., and of “the birds and fowls, both of land and water.” Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 2011-12-28T03:00:44.040Z But the old musquash avoided the path, as if he had suffered in such places before. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z Prejudice by then would have been overcome by the knowledge that "musquash," the Indian dish, was all right. Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts 2011-12-17T03:00:14.840Z The Rodentia include beavers, nutrias, musk-rats or musquash, marmots, hamsters, chinchillas, hares, rabbits, squirrels, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The only reassuring note in the "musquash talk" to-day is sounded when the subject of candles is reached. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z He seemed suddenly to have quite forsaken humanity, and gone over to the musquash side. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z I remember especially one big musquash that I was going to shoot near one of my traps, when I stopped short at noticing some queer thing about him. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z I've heard many men say they think musquash as good as almost anything to be had in the woods or swamps up north. Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts 2011-12-17T03:00:14.840Z Besides these there are many useful, though commonplace, fur-bearing animals like mink, musquash, skunk, raccoon, opossum, hamster, rabbit, hares and moles, that thrive by depredations upon cultivated land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Muskrat, musquash, and ondatra are other names given to them. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z In fact, it probably was a musquash trail in some places. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z Because did we of the fraternity of hunters pause to consider, and reason, we must see that a musquash ought not, and cannot be different from a beaver. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. "While we were facing starvation, why stewed musquash sounded right good to us; but with a whole carcass of venison on our hands it's plain muskrat again; and there you are, Lil Artha." Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts 2011-12-17T03:00:14.840Z The darker sorts of mink, 348 musquash, raccoon and wolverine are more valuable than the paler skins. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "The musquash is easier to hunt," said Hawk Eye. Hawk Eye Just before night we saw a musquash, the only one we saw in this voyage, swimming downward on the opposite side of the stream. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z At times, when there are a number of musquash in the same lodge at the same time, the spear often passes through two, or even three, at one stroke. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Then musquash lives as heartily on owls and frogs and snakes as on water mussels and lily-pads. The Story of the Trapper It is also dyed sealskin colour, but its woolly nature renders it less effective than the more silky musquash. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "It had beautiful fur and a tail as big as a musquash." Hawk Eye He did not like him, and declared that all he said "was not worth talk about a musquash." Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z I caught him late in the fall in a trap set for musquash, the other lakes being frozen over. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. But here musquash has dived off into the water for the express purpose of throwing a possible pursuer off the scent. The Story of the Trapper The Russian musquash is very small, 7 � 4 in., and is limited in numbers compared to the brown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z He supplied them with musquash and beaver skins, hogshead staves, clapboards and oar rafters in return for such goods and supplies as he needed. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 A present of seven musquash skins was now given Mr Young for having induced Radisson to resume his services. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) Take, for instance, the water rat, musquash, or the more generally used name of musk rat. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. But the tracks betrayed which way musquash was travelling; so the trapper goes on, knowing if he does not find the little haycock houses on this side, he can cross to the other. The Story of the Trapper In France they do well with cheaper skins, such as musquash, rabbit and hare, which they dye in addition to dressing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The tuition fees were paid in a great variety of ways; in work, in grain, leather, musquash skins, rum, hauling hay and making shoes; he only handled 10s. in cash for his entire winter’s work. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 He said my love for her was bosh, And my affection I musquash. English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. From a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand musquash skins was the usual returns from the post a few years ago. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. A single stretch of good marsh ground has yielded that number of skins year after year without a sign of the hunt telling on the prolific little musquash. The Story of the Trapper Jack, who had lived for years on the banks of the Wildcat, could swim and dive like a musquash. The Hoosier School-boy They also supplied martin, otter and musquash skin, the latter at 4½ pence each. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 The fur-bearing animals consist of beavers; bears, black, brown, and grizzly; otters, fishers, lynxes, martins; foxes, red, cross, and silver; minks, musquash, wolverines, and ermines. Handbook to the new Gold-fields This is to prevent the musquash from running out to deep water. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. These are the points that make for little musquash's continuance in spite of all that shot and trap can do. The Story of the Trapper "Gentleman's dark grey fur lined motor coat, fit fairly big man, lined with about 150 selected natural musquash skins, real Persian lamb collar, the property of a peer, in the pink of condition." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 "Now hand us the trap, and we will get ready for the musquash." Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories These establishments are small, but said to be well situated for procuring furs; as the numerous creeks in their vicinity are much resorted to by the beaver, otter, and musquash. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 The spearing of the musquash is done in this wise: The rats throw up little mud-cone lodges, or houses, out from the shore, in about a foot of water. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. As if the river was not there before the musquash was! The Last Harvest To this class belongs that intelligent but injurious animal the musquash or muskrat. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. It would puzzle a musquash to get out of my trap. Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories Twice or thrice pinnate leaves, toothed like a tenon saw, with conspicuous veins ending in the notches, brand it as the beaver poison, otherwise known as the musquash root and spotted cowbane. Some Summer Days in Iowa The flesh of musquash killed under the ice is highly esteemed by the Indians. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. No ripple breaks its polished surface; no plash of musquash or leaping trout sends its vibrations up into the still, frosty air; no sound of beast or bird awakens the echoes of the silent forest. Ways of Wood Folk The muskrat, or musquash, is very much like a beaver on a small scale, and is so well-known throughout the United States that a detailed description or illustration will hardly be necessary. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making "I thought there was a musquash somewhere near." Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories These establishments are small but said to be well situated for procuring furs; as the numerous creeks in their vicinity are much resorted to by the beaver, otter and musquash. The Journey to the Polar Sea I have seen foxes, minks, martens and musquash as taken crumpled like rags from the same bag. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. A musquash came by, and rubbed his nose against the canoe, and nibbled a lily root before he noticed me. Ways of Wood Folk In Canadian regions farther south the musquash no longer builds on the ice, but in swamps, where it raises heaps of mud like islands in the surrounding water. Pioneers in Canada "No, I am not afraid of the musquashes," replied Mary Matilda. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 As soon as the skins of beaver and musquash are removed, the bodies, so many skinned cats, are impaled on sticks of jack-pine and set sizzling before the fire. The New North Beaver, otter, mink and musquash are dark or light colored according to the water they live in. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. I'm going to buy myself a musquash coat with a skunk collar. Penny Plain I "hooked" the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout. Walden The musquashes saw her retreating, and with a howl of commingled rage and disappointment they started in hot pursuit. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 "Because a curious and hungry musquash, anxious to reach the bait I stuck on a splinter of wood just above the trap, set it off." With Trapper Jim in the North Woods This reserved skin may be only a musquash. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. I include January, because musquash and beaver are sold in that month. Canada and the States The other voyageur, perhaps, would in the mean while have seen a brown hawk, or a woodchuck, or a musquash creeping under the alders. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers They ran like mad, as only starving musquashes can run. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The boys made sure of this, not fancying the idea of having to depend upon the musquash alone. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods Each skin, apart from the musquash, was as clean as note paper, all killed in season and all dried in the frost or shade. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Once, while in advance of my companions, I saw, from a high rock, a commotion in the water near the shore, but on reaching the point found only the marks of a musquash. Wake-Robin She was wearing a big black musquash coat, and over her feet she had flung a tweed overcoat, apparently one of Mr. Bellward's from the hatstand in the hall. Okewood of the Secret Service His aspect was so terrible that the musquashes turned to flee, but they were too late. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 Sure enough, Jim cut up the musquash, and gave evidences of satisfaction at finding them so plump. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods "To rescue the fair Mary Matilda from the musquashes," replied the stranger. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 "You know the musquashes are very thick, and this spell of winter weather has made them very hungry and ferocious." Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 "And I sadly fear the deadly musquash will pursue them." Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The mysterious stranger laid about him so vigorously with his saw that the musquashes soon were in bits. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 In the afternoon Old Jim skinned the three musquash, and showed the boys how he fastened the hides on stretching boards, which would cause them to retain their shape while they dried. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods No. 3—Lone pine in the deserted vale where the musquash watches for his prey. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 But just then another musquash carelessly trod on the big musquash's tail and the old musquash roared with pain. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 Then she saw the pack of musquashes in the snow on the farthest bank of the Nashwaak. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 |
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