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Usage examples of beaver.

That meant little to a vehicle without haul, like the Batwing, but a car with full Beaver and passengers could come upon quick disaster.

Trade was slow because most of the territory had been beavered out and the Company did not enjoy the monopoly there it had elsewhere.

Rarely had Berwick seen a better-shaped coat, or a smarter beaver, or so complete a mastery of whip and ribbons, as he steered the pair at a good pace down the uneven street amid the fishcarts and country wagons.

The elimination of the beavers and over-grazing, especially of the riparian habitats, altered the hydrology of the continent.

Then the beavers guard their preserve jealously, driving away the wood folk that dare to cross their dam or enter their ponds, especially the musquash, who is apt to burrow and cause them no end of trouble.

I include January, because musquash and beaver are sold in that month.

He needed no further proof to assure him that this was Strang the king of the Mormons, for the Beaver Island prophet was painted well in that region which knew the grip and terror of his power.

I will make my way eastward then, toward the great lake Brigantinus, for the springtime breakup of the ice on the streams thereabout, when the beavers emerge from their burrows and their pelts are at their prime.

Had it not been for Design Toscano Historical Reproductions for Home and Garden, I might never have learned that the three parts of a sixteenth-century close helmet are the visor, the ventail, and the beaver.

Bay, sitting next to a fire, holding a royal warrant from King Charles I and waiting for the Assiniboine and Cree to bring in a fresh pile of beaver pelts he could benevolently exchange for a few barrels of flour and sugar.

One displays a foppish frock coat with the best of beavers, another a wonderful Greek nose, the third is the bearer of superb side-whiskers, the fourth of a pair of pretty eyes and an astonishing little hat, the fifth of a signet ring with a talisman on his smart pinkie, the sixth of a little foot in a charming bootie, the seventh of an astonishment-arousing necktie, the eighth of an amazement-inspiring mustache.

Beaver Cover High the kind of facilities she remembered from her Bostonian school days.

After all this time, people were just another tool-using animal in the ecology, like beavers or bowerbirds, still little more than glorified chimps.

At most, the visitor might have mentioned humans along with beavers, bowerbirds, and army ants as examples of species with curious behavior.

Sports Hall of Fame, he succeeded his father as president of Northern Trusts and was a director of such Winnipeg touchstone companies as Great-West Life and Beaver Lumber.