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"Rodent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gnawing at the bark of some tree loaded with fruit or blossoms, which he will soon girdle, if he is let alone. The first impulse is to murder him with the nearest ragged stone. Then one remembers that he is a rodent, acting after the law of his kind, and cools down and is contented to drive him off and guard the tree against his teeth for the future. As soon as this is done, one can watch his attempts at mischief with a ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... requiem! We feel very sorry at the loss of our pet, for he was a thorough sailor, thinking it nothing to mount the rigging and seat himself on the crosstrees, whilst on his rounds; and as to the item "rats," shew me the rodent that could ever boast of weathering him, and I will shew you a ...
— In Eastern Seas - The Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 • J. J. Smith
... an other-self, and when he slept that other-self dreamed back into the past, back to the winged reptiles and the clash and the onset of dragons, and beyond that to the scurrying, rodent-like life of the tiny mammals, and far remoter still, to the shore-slime of the primeval sea. I cannot, I dare not, say more. It is all too vague and complicated and awful. I can only hint of those vast and terrific vistas through which I have peered hazily at the ...
— Before Adam • Jack London
... sides of the structure from the storms. All cracks are carefully filled with pieces of wood wedged and driven in. Even the door, consisting of two or three vertical planks set in grooved timbers, is laboriously wedged the same way. The building is rodent proof, and, because of its wide, projecting roof and the fact that it sets off the earth, it is practically ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks |
Words linked to "Rodent" : placental mammal, round-tailed muskrat, mountain viscacha, agouti, Aplodontia rufa, cavy, Chinchilla laniger, abrocome, placental, mole rat, mountain chinchilla, capybara, chinchillon, nutria, prairie dog, Dolichotis patagonum, prairie marmot, rat chinchilla, musquash, hamster, chinchilla, jumping mouse, murine, order Rodentia, lemming, marmot, paca, rat, mouse, cotton rat, hedgehog, mountain beaver, capibara, beaver, jerboa, Sigmodon hispidus, squirrel, eutherian, chinchilla rat, mara, eutherian mammal, mountain paca, Lagostomus maximus, viscacha, coypu, Cuniculus paca, sand rat, wood-rat, porcupine, sewellel |
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