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Usage examples of squirrel.

By the time Astasia reached the musical squirrel and the bumblebee, Karila was yawning, and long before the swan princess made her appearance, the little girl had fallen asleep.

The cause of the feud was that Chack fed squirrels and Leeds fed pigeons, both using Washington Square as a base of operations.

Here and there a chuckwalla darted across the trail or a rock squirrel sat on his haunches and scolded as we passed.

Through the grille of the hatch he could see a mast, and sailors clambering like squirrels about the rigging.

Their insufficiency was still more clearly shown when a troop of quadrupeds, jumping, bounding, making leaps of thirty feet, regular flying mammiferae, fled over the thickets, so quickly and at such a height, that one would have thought that they passed from one tree to another like squirrels.

Nonetheless I contend that what I saw fossicking around in my trousers tonight on Primrose Hill was like no squirrel I have ever seen.

At one time, according to Lady Hesketh, he had besides two dogs, two goldfinches, and two canaries, five rabbits, three hares, two guinea-pigs, a squirrel, a magpie, a jay, and a starling.

If he could reach the bottom and cover half the distance to the tree that stood in the center of the gulch he would feel comparatively safe for then, even if Numa appeared, he felt that he could beat him either to the cliff or to the tree, but to scale the first thirty feet of the cliff rapidly enough to elude the leaping beast would require a running start of at least twenty feet as there were no very good hand- or footholds close to the bottom--he had had to run up the first twenty feet like a squirrel running up a tree that other time he had beaten an infuriated Numa to it.

Peking squirrel with hoisin sauce, chipmunks cubed in a dry wok, and chinchilla chow fun.

As he opened it, the squirrel came bounding in, a grey streak that leaped for Jenkins and landed in his lap.

Squirrels, Marmots, Jerboas, Mole-Rats, Rats, Mice, Voles, Porcupines, and Hares.

As the sprouting herbs and grasses tempted burrowing ground squirrels, giant hamsters, great jerboas, rabbits, and hares from winter nests, Ayla started wearing her sling again, tucked into the thong that held her fur wrap closed.

Occasionally, squirrels dashed across the path in front of the travelers, and juncos, nuthatches, and titmice descended from higher branches to investigate or scold.

Running up and down the trees were gilheri, lokria, karrat, rasu, and other varieties of squirrel.

He searched his clothes cabinet last and so thoroughly that he discovered on its floor against the wall behind some boots an unopened bottle of kirschwasser he must have squirreled away there over a year ago when he was still drinking.