What is "racoon"

Usage examples of "racoon".

He was, perhaps, rather observing, as he ever after remembered the entire process of deer-skin dressing, so that he could at any time dress his own leather, such as squirrel, racoon, cat, wolf, and dog skins, and also learned to make whiplashes, which brought him some change at times, and was of considerable service in many ways.

There were plenty of rabbits, some of them with ears long enough so you could call them hares, like snowshoe hares, and two or three times there was a real odd animal, somewhere between a racoon and a dog, which the old man called a moyuk.

Stopping to check her face in the mirror, she saw that yes, indeed, she did look like a racoon, the eye shadow had already begun to fade, and her cheekbones had been denuded.

But Searcher stayed with Dawn, scampering along as well as an augmented racoon could.

I had put another bag there earlier, and by the light of the nearly full moon I could see a racoon with its pointed snout buried in one corner of the glistening green plastic.

It had occurred to me on my previous visit, and I was reminded of it now, how very like a racoon she looked with her pale face and large dark eyes nestling in heavy black eye-shadow.

Grappling hooks were thrown and the men in the boats, rifles slung across their backs, climbed like racoons up the ropes and onto the unseen deck of the ship.

They adored being outdcx sniffing the flowers, feeling the tree bark, watching birds, squirrels, rabbits, racoons, the ducks and ge that often invaded our swimming pool, only to chased off quickly by the adults.

They were probably cousins to the racoons Alex had relocated from the kitchen to Cabin Eight this morning.