Scamperers in the woods

Usage examples of critters.

If the critters knew how to cipher, they would soon find out that a sum stated that way always eends in a naught.

Halls, Hamiltons, and De Rouses, and such critters, what can they know of us?

Best of all, since the snakes preferred twilight time for supper, neither the critters they hunted nor the diamondbacks themselves had any call to be scampering about in the open with two full-grown ponies crunching sand their way.

High Apacheria got too cold for a sand-loving sidewinder on many a night, and the critters only bred where they could make it through the whole year.

There was something in the way grazing critters digested vegetables that made the stuff smell like malted grain.

Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.

Spanish-speaking folks bred critters as cleverly as French-speaking folks pruned grape vines for wine.

Here we are all just ready to drop down, and the critters all in a reek of sweat.

Her two critters had been rubbing against his boots for over a month--he almost suspected the gal trained them to--but Travis silently prayed a wild predator would make a meal of the varmints.

And except for the cats, she usually skirted any critters in the barn.

I had a feeling they had some policy or other regarding wild critters in the rooms, so I waited until the desk clerk went off to flirt with one of the maids, and then I opened the door and me and Basil made a beeline for the staircase, and reached the second floor without being seen.

Still more of the sealed crates and boxes and bottles contained critters, or other things, that might or might not be counted among the living.