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"Rodent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time supposed to be connecting links between groups, belong altogether to one group, and not at all to the other. For example, the aye-aye[103] (Chiromys Madagascariensis). {108} was till lately considered to be allied to the squirrels, and was often classed with them in the rodent order, principally on account of its dentition; at the same time that its affinities to the lemurs and apes were admitted. The thorough investigation into its anatomy that has now been made, demonstrates that it has no more ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart
... forms the staple. Doctor KANE speaks in glowing terms of the excellence of rats when mixed with due proportions of walrus blubber, and cut out in frozen chunks, probably with a cold-chisel. Why this fierce rodent should make more savory meat than the innocent kitten, does not appear. The latter is certainly much nicer to play with, in the ante-mortem state. But this is a digression. Returning, therefore, not to the mutton, but to the pork, consider ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 • Various
... that it was against the laws of his kind to strike this woman of another, but being a bully, he had taken advantage of the weakness of the female's husband to chastise her because she had refused to give up to him a tender young rodent she ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... little ship-shape again Redwood went and stared at the huge misshapen corpse. The brute lay on its side, with its body slightly bent. Its rodent teeth overhanging its receding lower jaw gave its face a look of colossal feebleness, of weak avidity. It seemed not in the least ferocious or terrible. Its fore-paws reminded him of lank emaciated hands. Except for one neat round hole with a scorched rim on either side of ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... admitted. "In fact, I may say that I'm very, very fond of tree-buds. But I'm a bird. And of course everybody knows that you're a rodent." ...
— The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse • Arthur Scott Bailey
... leaves, owing to their bitter juices, nor will a grub or nibbling rodent molest the root, which bites like ginger; nevertheless credulous mankind once utilized the plant as a ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan
... harmless, innocent little blue mouse in the pantry. She fully intended to drown the helpless creature—as if this world were not big enough for mice and men to live and be happy in! I had great difficulty in rescuing the tiny rodent from his captor, and I remember the satisfaction I had in giving him his liberty under the kitchen porch of neighbor Rush's ...
— The House - An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice • Eugene Field
... as one does who sees a gray rat steal out of a drain and begin 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 ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
Words linked to "Rodent" : muskrat, wood-rat, eutherian, wood rat, eutherian mammal, prairie dog, Florida water rat, beaver, rat chinchilla, Aplodontia rufa, hedgehog, order Rodentia, chinchilla rat, viscacha, sand rat, cotton rat, squirrel, capibara, Cuniculus paca, mouse, Neofiber alleni, chinchillon, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, Myocastor coypus, jumping mouse, placental mammal, water rat, prairie marmot, coypu, mole rat, Chinchilla laniger, Lagostomus maximus, paca, cavy, round-tailed muskrat, rat, mara, marmot, lemming, placental, mountain chinchilla, New World mouse, nutria, jerboa, Sigmodon hispidus, gerbil, mountain viscacha, mountain beaver, musquash, Dasyprocta aguti, gerbille, murine, hamster, agouti, abrocome, capybara, chinchilla, Ondatra zibethica, sewellel, dormouse, mountain paca, Dolichotis patagonum, porcupine |
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