Its head was almost beaver-like, I thought, and much cuter than your typical rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery Mammal] Reference

Dr. Whipple, watching her beaver-like industry, thought: "She has a positive affinity for the land.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Indeed, the water-rat possesses so many beaver-like characteristics, that it was ranked near the beaver in the systematic lists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference

Their natural, one could say beaver-like, talent for building weirs and other underwater constructions should be taken into account.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War with the Newts] Reference

He had a brief, horrifying impression of some kind of face, flattened and distorted, red eyes and huge, beaver-like teeth as long as his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Werehunter]

With a startled cry, Walt Ballin drew back before a heavy blast of air as an animal 3 feet high appeared out of the shimmering whirlwind, mouse-like above and beaver-like in its lower extremities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plasma Monster]

There -- do you see that little beaver-like hut on the next point?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

I imagined how beaver-like were the Germans in the second line strengthening their defenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Second Year of the War] Reference

Danny asked, drawing closer to the fence, the elephant's beaver-like blue tail dragging forlornly on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus Comes to Town] Reference

In fact it is an idiosyncratic little Italian hatch (a Lancia Delta) with a beaver-like American (Chrysler) grille.    From Wordnik.com.  [AutoSpies.com News] Reference

The prolific, beaver-like rodent is damaging the Gulf Coast ecosystem, and the government is paying trappers for their tails.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAYshow.com: Fashion & beauty] Reference

As we cycled past the lagoon, wild Arabian rock hyraxes - cuddly beaver-like creatures - dashed across the path in front of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Fortunately, all were provided with sufficient food, and were able to endure their beaver-like existence without suffering from cold or hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fur Country] Reference

But the downpour couldn't dampen the spirits of the beaver-like workers putting the final touches to the site, which organisers declared is ready to rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star] Reference

The men toiled surlily, as though that beaver-like industry, everywhere displayed by the German army in fatigue work, had about reached the quitting point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Souls of Men are Calling] Reference

It is common on the banks of a stream or a pond to see half a dozen of these little beaver-like water-voles out feeding in the grass, and they eat it when they find it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

Out of the blackness then came the green eyes of the wild cat below me and, as my eyes became more accustomed to the darkness, I saw small, beaver-like animals burrowing their way through leaves and brushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kari the Elephant] Reference

Danny's small, slim figure, great folds almost touching the ground, while the brown trunk and the blue, beaver-like tail waggled and wiggled about until they met between the front and hind legs of the elephant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus Comes to Town] Reference

The little old lady, whose bonnet hardly reached Dorothea's shoulder, was warmly welcomed, but while her hand was being pressed she made many of her beaver-like noises, as if she had something difficult to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

If this principle is proved, then, to be of such extraordinary utility, why should it not be made serviceable in other matters besides the "beaver-like" propensity of amassing wealth and satisfying our material desires?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference

"Now, aunt," he went on, rubbing his hands and looking at Miss Noble, who was making tender little beaver-like noises, "There shall be sugar-candy always on the table for you to steal and give to the children, and you shall have a great many new stockings to make presents of, and you shall darn your own more than ever!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

'commune' with a certain beaver-like instinct, providing for every man his share of land, his social position, his rights, so far as they are able.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

I fear the kitten has rolled it away, "said the tiny old lady, involuntarily continuing her beaver-like notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

I fear the kitten has rolled it away, "said the tiny old lady, involuntarily coutinuing her beaver-like notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

The animal was a nutria, a beaver-like creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference