| 单词 | polecat |
| 例句 | “At any rate,” Hecate said, “I turned her into a polecat. She’s much better as a polecat.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He grinned broadly at them and headed off to the staff table, still swinging the polecat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing his long moleskin overcoat and was absentmindedly swinging a dead polecat from one enormous hand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z As soon as they reached the first archway, the polecat Gale found them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "Ha' you any rats, mice, polecats, or weasels, or any old cows sick o' the measles?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z On Hecate’s shoulder, Gale the polecat barked with admiration. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At her neck Pantalaimon lay in his polecat shape, his fur glistening, and Lyra’s hair lay damp across her forehead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She didn’t much like Hecate’s dog or her gassy polecat, either. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The polecat hissed, its beady red eyes full of malice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Lyra nearly blazed with hatred, and Pantalaimon in her arms became a polecat, the most ugly and vicious of all his forms, and snarled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Master saw her expression, and saw Pantalaimon’s polecat eyes flash red. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Gale the polecat gnashed her teeth in approval, but Pasiphaë didn’t seem impressed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The polecat snapped its teeth and passed gas. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I also didn’t want to see Hosie Roach, a snot-nosed twenty-one-year-old mill boy in my class who stunk like a polecat and had tow-colored hair so thick and tangled it looked like a cootie stable. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon flew to the floor and instantly became a polecat, arching his back against her little white ankle socks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She stared at the white cliffs in the distance and thought about why Hecate had sent Gale the polecat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As the Anthonys advance and retreat, quaking with anticipation and apprehension, the Sheilas coil and twist like polecats on heat, breasts jutting beneath oversized cricket sweaters. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review 2012-07-14T23:05:34Z I can’t deny that I’ve watched the polecat sequence upwards of a dozen times, but Miller’s film truly comes alive in Furiosa’s howl of desperation, and in Max’s noble disappearance into the throng. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The one thing that hasn't changed all that much is the repertoire, which remains firmly rooted in a pool of popular songs from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, which experienced singers refer to as "polecats". The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z One of the ferrets is described as a sable polecat ferret, and the other is a silver ferret. Surrey family pleads for return of stolen pet ferrets 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Other species that have gotten infected around the world include a badger, bobcat, coyote, dolphin, ferret, fisher cat, fox, lynx, opossum, otter, pig, polecat, porpoise, raccoon, raccoon dog and multiple minks and seals. What’s the risk of bird flu outbreak crossing to humans? 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Two bobcats in Wisconsin, a coyote pup in Michigan and skunks in Canada have also tested positive for the virus, as have foxes, otters, a lynx, a polecat and a badger in Europe. Not Just for the Birds: Avian Influenza Is Also Felling Wild Mammals 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z One introductionist I spoke to, Graham Wellstead, has released hundreds of polecats into the English countryside, helping this once-persecuted small carnivore spread across the south and east of the country once again. How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z About 40% of the UK's polecats are in Wales while volunteer groups are rebuilding habitats to save reptiles and amphibians such as adders, lizards and great crested newts. Wales a haven for wildlife - but for how long? 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In 2018, The Government's 25-year Environment Plan stated the reintroduction of native species such as otters and polecats was "key" to nature's recovery. Threatened pine martens return to forest 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z However, it is good news for the otter, pine marten, polecat and badger, which have all seen their populations and geographical range spread. One in five UK mammals face extinction 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Twitter erupted into a menagerie full of dolphins, polecats, aardvarks and Irish wolfhounds. Expecto Patronum! Patronus Test Keeps ‘Harry Potter’ Marketing Alive 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “We’re preparing for everything. Some wildcat, polecat, everything. Don’t be surprised if they come out there with that ‘Little Giants’ formation or the Flying V. They’ve got something up their sleeve. Flacco, Ravens ready to face baby-faced Browns 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z However, conservationists are optimistic that polecats will continue to recover in Britain. Conservationists: Polecats 'spreading across Britain' - BBC News 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Director Miller is liked and respected by his peers and, at the age of 70, has delivered a film opera big enough to contain feminist ambitions, chainsaw-wielding polecats and barking mad humor. Oscar Watch: The most-nominated movie will (probably) be ... wait, what? ... 'Mad Max: Fury Road' 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The species reported as increasing in number were the otter, pine marten, polecat and badger along with red and roe deer, the greater and lesser horseshoe bat, and beaver and wild boar. One in five UK mammals face extinction 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Foreign Affairs Department staff also reported one traveller asking for help looking after her dogs while she was away and one asking for help to get a polecat out of the roof. 'Pest' Australian tourists warned 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Then the moment your back is turned, they're fighting like demented polecats and blaming the other for starting it. Will playing nicely make difference? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Other threats include growing numbers of polecats dying after eating poisoned rats. Conservationists: Polecats 'spreading across Britain' - BBC News 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Sharp toothed and clawed, fishers are related to minks, polecats and martens. Signs of once-extinct fishers found all over Olympic Peninsula 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z "Some species are doing well, so carnivores, for example, like polecats and pine martens, they seem to be bouncing back," she said. One in five UK mammals face extinction 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Among other odd requests, one Australian asked embassy staff to help to get a polecat off a roof. 'Pest' Australian tourists warned 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z I hoped he wouldn’t ask what a polecat was. Is there anything freakier to a dog than the weird experience of riding an elevator? Cubit boldly started the game with play from a "polecat" formation. Illinois stuns Cincinnati 45-17 2013-09-08T03:00:00Z The baby polecat is healthy but needs constant feeding and care until he is old enough to fend for himself. Cute baby polecat rescued by RSPCA 2013-06-18T12:49:47Z Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani snarled like a polecat but purred when CEOs came calling, giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to Fortune 500 companies. City Room: For FreshDirect, an Old-Fashioned Handout 2012-02-23T19:41:47Z Here and there a polecat was intermixed, and hunters’ poles in great abundance. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z In fact, the stories told of the offensive smell of this animal are rather exaggerated, for an European polecat is often nothing behind the skunk in this disagreeable quality. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z On great occasions, or whenever they are in full dress, the young men drag after them the entire skin of a polecat, fixed to the heel of the moccason. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Next came a greyhound, which she called Vinegar Tom; and next a polecat. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Weasel, wē′zl, n. a common carnivore belonging to the same genus as the polecat and stoat—the body long and slender—eating rats, frogs, birds, mice, &c.: Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z For artists’ use and for decorative painting, brushes or pencils of hair from the sable, camel, badger, polecat, &c., are prepared. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The polecat, the otter, and the mink are common; the pine marten is said to be sometimes seen; the ermine is not rare in the prairies of Illinois. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Suppose now our new recruit had run across a rattlesnake instead of a polecat! Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z It was only natural, they thought, for a boy to act the part of a squirrel or polecat, and to be acquainted with every bird’s nest and rabbit’s burrow within a radius of miles. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Then on they went, firing now at some strange bird and now at a weasel or polecat, taking little heed of where they were going, just as heedless as youth so often is. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z “Well, I’ve shot stoats and weasels by the score; and I once shot a polecat, and another day an otter, and another day an owl.” Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z He knows it is only the polecat trying to reach out to a branch where a thrush has gone to sleep. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z It feeds on small rodents and young birds, occasionally, like the polecat, plundering hen-roosts, when it eats the brains of its numerous victims, and leaves the body untouched. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Foxes are abundant in all parts of the country; the polecat is found in the woods of Attica and the Morea; the lynx is now rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Mrs. Crane had expressed a fear that a wandering polecat had made a home under her woodshed. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z They much prefer out-of-door sport, and will attack and slay even the polecat and weasel; and instances have been known of their giving battle to the wild cat himself. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z We capture moles, and we capture great rats and frightful hedgehogs, and Broom is so brave he will grapple even with a weasel; and one day he conquered and killed a huge polecat! Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Dear Sir: May the sprays of a million polecats fall upon your presses and linger there through eternity. Creed C. Black, Newspaper Executive, Dies at 86 2011-08-18T01:45:40Z On this account Professor Comstock has aptly called these caterpillars "the polecats of the insect world." Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The first is the hardier, and it is to secure this quality that poachers cross their ferrets with the wild polecat. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z He has gone with the polecat, the pine marten, the wild cat, the harriers, the buzzards, and a host of the brightest and loveliest of our birds. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z They furnished, with the most plentiful profusion, the tables of the lions, leopards, tigers, panthers, hyænas, wolves, bears, foxes, polecats, and all sorts of carnivorous quadrupeds. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The polecats are sure likely to nibble your toes if you don’t. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z A trade having immediately commenced, the articles which the inhabitants offered for sale were the skins of various animals, such as bears, wolves, foxes, deer, racoons, polecats, martins; and, in particular, of the sea-otters. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z There are various reasons why poachers prefer white ferrets to the polecat variety. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Different uses have been ascribed to this provision, such as that which ferrets and polecats have. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Just as if I'd done something out of the way instead of tryin' to put one more polecat out of the world. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z I shouldn’t like to have you,” and he smiled as he returned the weapon, “aim this thing at me as you did at that polecat.” The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Each had either the tail of a polecat or a bunch of leather snippings in lieu of it, tied to either heel; the front half of their moccasins was painted blue, the other half red. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z Such ground generally affords cover for vermin—weazels, polecats, and stoats. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Mustela, the martin, including otters, weasels, ermines, polecats, &c.: Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Was Rafe indeed the qualified polecat Billy had half-way suspected him of being when he meet him hurrying away from the Walton ranch? The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z When it comes to fighting a polecat, a wise man takes precautions. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Its hole was accordingly examined, the polecat taken, and eleven fine eels were discovered to be the fruits of its nocturnal exertions. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Women are reckoned mighty cute at reading men, but I've noticed when I've struck the complete polecat, that he's usually married. A Man in the Open Of the unguiculate animals, some are ruminant, with two claws only, as the camel; others are carnivorous, with more numerous claws, as cats, dogs, polecats. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The small striped polecat of southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha, represents a genus by itself, and is a shorter-haired animal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The polecat—in Europe the Mustela putorius, a fetid-smelling member of the weasel and otter family—is a bloodthirsty, insatiable hunter that terrorizes poultry. Area Handbook for Bulgaria The weasel stands as the type of a large number of animals, such as the marten, sable, polecat, otter, skunk, &c.; all being characterized by a long body, short legs, and considerable energy of disposition. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom "That's 'skunk,'" says I, "because he's a polecat not to answer me." A Man in the Open “I don’t think it’s a wildcat,” I said; “from all the legends we have heard lately, a wildcat would have stood its ground: more likely it was a polecat.” Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls He must lament, while he confessed, that he had been brought up in the fear and horror of foxes, weasels, stoats, polecats, sparrow-hawks, and so forth. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Foxes, wildcats, polecats, squirrels and other rodents, and hare—better able to adjust to existing conditions—are also surviving. Area Handbook for Bulgaria A polecat—even with three legs only—will command a fancy price. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 As Trevor struggled, the pegs came adrift, the bed capsized, the rope slacked, and the polecat, breaking loose, found Brown's rifle. A Man in the Open Add to this a habit of sneaking and dodging about in unknown places—habiting with negroes in dark dens and back streets—a look like a hound and the smell of a polecat. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment A species of the polecat, and another of the fox, are destructive to the Indian’s poultry; while the opossum, the guana, and salempenta afford him a delicious morsel. Wanderings in South America They were "the very polecats, stoats, weasels, and minivers in the warren of Church and State." Books Condemned to be Burnt The natural enemies of the rat are thus mustered, the ferret, polecat, stoat, weasel, cat, dog, and man. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 I'd led the ponies out of the punt, and was instructing Brown, when the polecat let drive at me from across the river. A Man in the Open And foxes and martens and buzzards and polecats and ermines are to be preserved for five years. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories Still there is enough in the polecat, self-considered, to afford one several hearty laughs. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Foes hardly less dreaded, because of their insatiable thirst for blood, were two polecats living in a hole half-way up the wall of a ruined cottage not far from the hillside farm-house. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain All the weasel family, to which the polecat belongs, kill for the pure joy of killing, and in China one such animal will entirely depopulate a hen-roost in a single night. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Marston is not without sprightliness, but his sprightliness is never the sprightliness of the kid, though it is sometimes that of the hyena, and sometimes that of the polecat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 But we have the fox out here, you know, who is pretty cunning, in addition to the marten and the polecats, who are the blood-thirstiest animals that you can think of. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories And he left that week for another trip to the pole to find out what the attitude of the polecats might be concerning the matter in question. The Gay Rebellion And, according to a similar method, stoats and polecats, whenever possible, seize their victims near the base of the brain. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain It seemed to be cursing us in every language of the polecat tribe. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Many a rat, and stoat, and polecat had reason to wish them far away, I can tell you. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young When he reached her he poked out of his surtout a little face with a pointed nose, and bearing a resemblance at once to a polecat and a fox. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental How the devil do I know what’s in that polecat’s mind? Shoe-Bar Stratton At last the polecat convulsively trembled as its ribs and spine were crushed in the fox's tightening jaws, its teeth relaxed their hold, and the fight was over. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain If you can convert a man by callin' him a polecat, why, call him one, of course. Aunt Jane of Kentucky The ermine is but little larger than the English ferret, while the sable and marten are the size of large polecats. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia "And as widderful and wizzent as a polecat nailed up on a barn door," said Tom o' Dint, lifting his grating knife from the grindstone and speaking with a voice as hoarse. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time A mephitic weasel or skunk, an animal which somewhat resembles a polecat, came running by. Adventures of a Young Naturalist A foumart was caught in the back kitchen; you may perhaps know it better by the name of polecat. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. During the last night our people passed on land, they killed a polecat which had slunk into the tent. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 The objects offered were bear and wolf skins, and those of foxes, deers, and polecats, weasels, and especially otters, which are found in the islands east of Kamschatka. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century The common polecat has made them so like himself that they are fit only for his company. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 With the exception of the rabbit, all our English animals are found in Norway—the badger, fox, hare, otter, squirrel, hedgehog, polecat, stoat, and the rest of them. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Wild animals, like polecats and minks, who would be likely to prey upon the young birds, are not allowed to reside on the island; and it is too far to swim from the mainland. Days Off And Other Digressions All stoats, weasels, ferrets, polecats, are of the wrong people, as you may imagine, and so are most rats and bats. The Five Jars For pole, from Fr. poule, cf. polecat, also an enemy of fowls. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) It stinks like a polecat, and is undoubtedly full of all creeping things. No Man's Land When surprised by the hunters and their dogs, it will battle furiously till life is extinct: all the while emitting a strong disagreeable smell, after the manner of the weasels and polecats. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Well, look here; I don’t want to know anything about any strange birds or polecats or owls or hawks or anything. The New Forest Spy “Set a trap, and bait it same as you would for a fox, or a polecat, or one of them big hawks we see on the moor.” Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story “Hah! ye dirty polecat,” he cried, throwing his club at the eyes with all his force. Sunk at Sea Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] See Richardson a far better case of a polecat animal �Mustela vison�, which half-year is aquatic. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Roberts led through the polecat brush to the summit of a little mesa which overlooked the gulch. Oh, You Tex! So's the polecat till the fox meets him. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn That Denyse female," continued the veteran lawyer, "is a raddled old polecat. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Among them are weasels, polecats, ferrets, martens, skunks, and others. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals Of these, the polecat, the bat, the woodpecker, the eye, the swimming bladder are discussed in the present Essay, and in addition some botanical problems. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 He was in a treeless country, covered with polecat brush. Oh, You Tex! The wasp stings, and the polecat stinks, and the lion tears its prey asunder. Dr. Wortle's School Ha! polecat! it was not thy name, although bad enough, that stank first; in my house, at least. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection “Because you can keep frogs, and jays, and polecats, and snakes, and anything, and they don’t want to be fed.” Burr Junior Waterspouts and bits of wreck smell like polecats when you’re a hundred miles from land, don’t they? Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral He declares that a well-cooked polecat is as good to eat as a pig, and that stewed rattlesnake is not so bad as might be supposed. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 They would kill the polecat and dress it and take a sharp stick and run it up their back jest under the flesh. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives It has a mane like the horse, horns like the stag, a face like the bear, eyes like the polecat, and a body that resembles every thing except a living being! Roumanian Fairy Tales Jays, hawks, owls, little falcons, shrikes, weasels, stoats, and polecats. Burr Junior Formerly dead hedgehogs could be seen in company with foxes, polecats, and other vermin suspended from the boughs of the churchyard yew trees, to prove that the Churchwardens paid for work actually done. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Perhaps the most unique and clever food conserver is the American polecat. The Human Side of Animals Rashîd would have it they were leopards, I said lynxes, and our English friend, in moments of depression, thought of polecats. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 "I just hope I get my hands on them sneakin' polecats!" Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung It's on my way to school one dewy mornin' when I gets involved all inadvertent in a onhappy rupture with a polecat. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) He likens them to pigs and polecats, horses and apes; and only praises the descendant of the bee. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Equally curious are the methods of skunks and polecats, which project against enemies a highly disagreeable fluid. The Human Side of Animals And then the polecat took her, leaping with unexpected agility, and pulling her down out of limitless freedom and safety. The Way of the Wild But they were not cats; they were polecats—carnivorous little animals, especially greedy for eggs and young chickens. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet They were never allowed to get below 8,000 head, and from these, after deducting losses by poachers, weazles, polecats, foxes, &c., A Short History of English Agriculture On great occasions, or wherever they are in full dress, the young men drag after them the entire skin of a polecat fixed to the heel of the moccasin. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. In the place of the virulent spirit wherewith— Like the polecat, the weasel, and things of that kith— They keep biting the backs of their neighbors! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood The first that the polecat knew of him was that red-hot fork-like feeling that means fangs in the back of your neck. The Way of the Wild The four polecats, thinking themselves safe, repaired to the poultry-yard, which was close to the kennel, and, having opened the wooden gate with their teeth and claws, they slipped in one by one. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Then, in time, the dooming to death of some of the prominent polecats who committed murder in the name of liberty and fraternity brought Robespierreism to an end. The Tragedy of St. Helena The smugglers fought like polecats, but received no help from the few accomplices who had not escaped. Looking Seaward Again She ain't the kind as dwells in the likes of that nest of polecats an' sidewinders. Six Feet Four And the polecat knew she was there, and he knew she was on her nest—she would not have been fool enough to keep there otherwise. The Way of the Wild The poor puppet had been taken in a trap put there to capture some big polecats which were the scourge of the poultry-yards in the neighborhood. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet The species is about the size of a large polecat, and measures from the tip of the nose to the setting on of the tail eighteen inches; the tail itself being nearly the same length. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) It may be something else, in the chimney, or a worm in the wood, or a polecat. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 He prefers the fitchew ferret as he calls it; that is the sort that are coloured like a polecat. The Amateur Poacher And all the time, also, the polecat, without seeming to take the slightest notice of him, was watching him out of the corner of his eye, waiting, hoping for a chance while he hunted. The Way of the Wild It was the owner of the field coming on tiptoe to see if one of the polecats that ate his chickens during the night had been caught in his trap. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet It is perhaps the same which is slightly described in Captain Cook's first voyage as resembling a polecat, having the back spotted with white; and is there said to be called by the natives Quoll.* The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) It's on my way to school one dewey mornin' when I gets involved all inadvertent in a onhappy rupture with a polecat. Wolfville Nights The rebels behaved like cruel wild beasts; they were worse than polecats in an aviary, and they met with about the same resistance as the polecats would meet. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour And this was the oddest thing of all, because, if any creature could show intense excitement without showing it—that is to say, without muscle, eyelid, hair, or limb moving—that polecat did then. The Way of the Wild His astonishment was great when, having brought out his lantern from under his coat, he perceived that instead of a polecat a boy had been taken. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet I thought ten million rattlesnakes and eight billion polecats had hit me. Vanguards of the Plains Surely he is wondrous kind; If I had such a dove-house as Camillo's, I would set fire on 't were 't but to destroy The polecats that haunt to it—My sweet cousin! The White Devil The savant, for example, procured an animal evidently of the cat tribe, and another species like a polecat. Creation and Its Records But the dog followed the polecat into a jungle-like reed fastness, and—almost never came out again! The Way of the Wild One of the polecats, leaving his companions, came to the opening of the kennel and said in a low voice: "Good evening, Melampo." Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet We had two sizes of wooden "Out of Sight" for mice and rats, and four or five sizes of Oneida steel traps for catching medium sized animals such as civets and polecats. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China But Mike and me was as popular with them people as a couple of polecats at a picnic. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Gradually, passenger after passenger produced cigars; the aroma filled the coach, and the fragrance of the weed triumphed over the foetor of the polecat. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada The polecat said nothing, perhaps because he had nothing to say. The Way of the Wild In general appearance, the Zorillo resembles a polecat, but it is rather larger, and much thicker in proportion. The Voyage of the Beagle Besides civets and polecats, we caught mongooses, palm civets, and other carnivores. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China Saint Michael, man! they hate us like two polecats!” The Black Arrow She had a mane like a horse, horns like a deer, a face like a bear, eyes like a polecat; while her body had something of each. The Violet Fairy Book If so, so much the worse for the polecat. The Way of the Wild "Yea," said Clement, "if thou deem a polecat a likely hound." The Well at the World's End: a tale We set a trap for a leopard on a hill behind the Nam-ting River camp and on the second afternoon it contained a splendid polecat. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:— "A gentleman of property, like yourself." Les Misérables But he died!—shot as a man would shoot a jay or a polecat! Night and Morning, Complete Also, it hurt, and the polecat did not lose his hold. The Way of the Wild But he died!— shot as a man would shoot a jay or a polecat! Night and Morning, Volume 4 The polecat is a blood-thirsty little beast and kills everything that comes in its way for the pure love of killing, even when its appetite has been satisfied. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China "They say one swallow don't make a spring," remarked Owen, when all danger was over, "but it strikes me one polecat does." With Trapper Jim in the North Woods He is covered with gold and red, and has an embroidered hat on like a mandarin's; he's fast asleep; and, by Jove, he smells like a polecat! The Room in the Dragon Volant It was only the eye that was deceived, not the nose—at least, not the polecat's nose—by motionlessness. The Way of the Wild Hanging up by a hook in the entry, along with various other dead animals, polecats, weasels, etc., was the ugliest creature I ever beheld. Life in Mexico She howled like a polecat, and we rushed like a hurricane through the waiting-room, which was full of people. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt About this time a few animals were taken which had already assumed their winter furs, such as martens, polecats, blue foxes, and ermines. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude This, according to Mr. W.E. de Winton, perhaps the best authority on the British mustelidae, is the normal tint of the male polecat's fur in summer. The Naturalist on the Thames The polecat seemed to side-twist double, making some sort of lightning-play with his long neck and body as she came, and—he got his hold. The Way of the Wild The appearence of Salts, and bitumun Still Continue. we Saw a polecat to day being the first which we have Seen for Some time past. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 A species of the polecat, and another of the fox, are destructive to the Indian's poultry, while the opossum, the guana and salempenta afford him a delicious morsel. Wanderings in South America They had to be cone tent with the polecats and pine-martens, called “ Canada- martens,” which frequent the shores of the Arctic Ocean. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude You, Bill, and polecats, and such-like, must be squelched when we can come across you, seeing that you make yourself so universally disagreeable. The Three Clerks She recoiled like a coiled snake, and the polecat felt fire in one loin. The Way of the Wild It may indeed make itself disagreeable and annoying, and so silence opposition, as a polecat may effectually close the wood path which you had designed to take. Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" His talk was of ploughs and boats, polecats and whiskey. The French in the Heart of America Badgers, lynxes, ermines, wolverenes, sables, polecats, &c., frequented these districts, hitherto undisturbed by hunters. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Presently she fancied she saw something glitter, away in the darkness—two things: they must be eyes!—the eyes of an otter or of a polecat, in which creatures the caves along the shore abounded. Malcolm Then the otter put down her duckling, and growled again; but the polecat might have been carved in unbarked oak for all the sign of life that he gave. The Way of the Wild Skunks, or polecats, are not numerous in that part of the country. A Trip to Manitoba Still, they linger while the marten has disappeared, the polecat is practically gone, and the badger becoming rare. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies There were a good many polecats and sables; but the furs of beavers, otters, lynxes, ermines, and foxes were scarce. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude V. have a bad smell &c. n.; smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat; smell strong &c. adj., smell offensively. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases In a few seconds the polecat had her down, and only an awful, mad, desperate clashing of fang against fang kept the attacker off her throat. The Way of the Wild I suppose the English word is polecat, but it doesn't say as much. The Primadonna Yes, we were in proximity to a polecat, and without further parley we ____. The Century Vocabulary Builder He had not come all this distance to hunt the polecat or the ermine, but merely to look at the moon at the moment when her disc should cover that of the sun. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude One almost regrets the marten and polecat, though both small creatures, and wishes that the fox would come forth more by day. The Open Air And there was reason—the old polecat's jaws were fast shut in a vise-grip, as of a Yale lock, upon her throat. The Way of the Wild On the upper parts of the walls could be foxskins and perhaps a polecat skin, and keepers' and huntsmen's poles. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III They were, for the most part, diminutive, the two largest not much exceeding our common hedgehog and polecat in size. The Antiquity of Man The polecat is also practically extinct, though occasional specimens are said to occur. The Life of the Fields Finally, a young polecat terrier was thrown into a state of great excitement the first time he ever saw one of these animals, while a spaniel remained perfectly calm. Life and Habit Anyway, the polecat was suddenly aware of a sound like the swish of a lady's skirt in the air above him, and of a dimming of the light. The Way of the Wild Its rind was said to exude a stench of so atrocious a nature that when a dorian was in the room even the presence of a polecat was a refreshment. Following the Equator, Part 5 It is a pretty little beast and of a deep chesnutt colour, a kind of polecat, lesse than a fox; and the furre is much esteemed: not much inferior to sables. The Natural History of Wiltshire Husband rolling in drunk, stink of pub off him like a polecat. Ulysses Every gent skins his own polecats an' plants his own prey.' Wolfville Days The owner of that nameless odor was a polecat—not our polecat; worse than that—and—well, you know the breed. The Way of the Wild Many of the animal manidos, not being dangerous, are often treated with contempt—the terrapin, the weasel, polecat, etc.” The Golden Bough Weasels, squirrels, polecats, porcupines, and other small animals exist in numbers, and the mermaid, of the genus Halicore, connects the inhabitants of the land and water. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither When crushed, sage brush emits an odor which isn't exactly magnolia and equally isn't exactly polecat but is a sort of compromise between the two. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Angus seized the little gentleman by the neck, as if he had been a polecat, and at arm's length walked him unresistingly into the coach-house. Sir Gibbie But the polecat only fought because he dared not expose his flank with the foe facing him. The Way of the Wild Marcasse, the mole-catcher, as he was called, professed to rid the dwellings and fields of the district of polecats, weasels, rats and other vermin. Mauprat "Skunks are polecats, you know," replied Glenn, cheerfully. The Call of the Canyon Surely, sweet chuck, we three are enough to take two poor polecats of Jesuits. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth The dreary silence is broken only by birds and cats, polecats, rats, and mice, free to scamper round, and fight, and eat each other. La Grande Breteche But along towards dawn there came an altogether different sort of sound, somehow—a sort of a little chuckling sound; and the polecat, answering it, came out. The Way of the Wild For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Mauprat The good dame gasped, then bade him lie down, and he obeyed her with that strange double understanding of the delirious; for even while submitting, he muttered "liar," "polecat," and then "Trampas." The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains On great occasions, or whenever they are in full dress, the young men drag after them the entire skin of a polecat fixed to the heel of the moccasin. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 This guide was our friend Peppino, who dashed into the thicket of high weeds, through a path which none but lizards or polecats could have imagined to be an open road. The Count of Monte Cristo Now, although it is a rule in the wild that self-advertisement is most unhealthful, there may be times when a beast like the polecat may not advertise itself enough. The Way of the Wild This only remains to be said—the female polecat and the male buzzard did, in spite of Fate, manage to rear their young. The Way of the Wild The only thing was to stay there; for, as he was a polecat and a member of the great, the famous, weasel tribe, part of his fighting creed was to stay there. The Way of the Wild They needed it, for, though clean, the punctures from the otter's canines had gone deep, and a red trail of drops marked the polecat's route to his lair—one of his lairs. The Way of the Wild |
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