The marten is a wonderfully energetic little animal, even more tireless than the squirrel and as great a climber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure] Reference

One of the largest of the latter is the pine marten, which is still found in remote and uninhabited parts of our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference

Upland furbearers, such as marten, mink, and shorttail and least weasels, are common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upper Yukon Tayga - Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

The first thing we met with was a kind of marten, which looked viciously at us, and greeted us with a shrill cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference

Home of the black bear, the marten and the cougar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skagit Valley Forever] Reference

The doctor knelt down again and examined the marten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

We made a great catch of mink, marten, otter and lynx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference

'It's not a cat,' he said to Lemoni, 'it's a pine marten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

'Have you decided on a name for the pine marten?' he asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

We've got to have a mad pine marten that doesn't take siestas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

The marten could be read as evidence that "Antea" was a bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Beauty Still Beguiles] Reference

Many beavers are in the packs, much marten and fox and ermine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Not long after the marten came by on the look out for his supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference

Other endangered mammals include marten (Martes americana), and lynx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Great Lakes forests] Reference

Floor-length ranch mink, marten jacket, something else I don't remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]

The hare and marten came last, and these animals have consequently no fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Now the Hunuguri are known to us from the fact that they trade in marten skins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference

A close relative, the pine marten, was often mistaken for a black-footed ferret.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Rare forest form which is also registered here is forest marten (Martes martes).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kazakh upland] Reference

The marten was not only very pretty, but also charming and inconceivably pathetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

The major furs at the auctions are mink, marten, fox, fitch, Persian lamb and sable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

He approached the pine marten and stroked it on the forehead with a tentative forefinger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

“Here,” she said, thrusting a coat upon me, a deep crimson silk lined with marten-skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

He pushed the pin through his own cloak, which was of heavy green wool lined with marten skins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

There was nothing much out-of-the-way about it -- a feline sort of carnivore, something like a marten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat and Mouse] Reference

I, the most skilful gymnast in the country, save only the marten, and there are too few of them to count.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Unwilling to leave the wall, Pelagia brushed the marten vigorously and pulled out the matted knots of fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

Though they didn't hunt them, they noticed that otter, badger, polecat, marten, and mink were also numerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

When discussing the impacts of noxious weeds on endangered species, she flashed up a picture of a pine marten.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The marten flew away, and soon returned with the foam that it had gathered from the mouths of the raging bears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

Professor Rolleston, of Cambridge University, believes the Grecian pet cat to have been the white-breasted marten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference

I bought myself a coat of scarlet cloth lined with marten-skins, having lost my lynx-skin one at the Kaspian Gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

'No. There are pine martens in Maine and Canada, and the pelt of the pine marten is called sable, but they're pretty rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

At that the host made a golden marten to catch the squirrel, and Lemminkainen a scarlet-coloured fox which ate the golden marten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

Mandras sighed heavily and fondled Psipsina's ears, talking as though he was addressing the pine marten rather than his fiancée.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

Her small choker fur was of good stone-marten, even her gloves and the handkerchief peeping from her pocket had the correct touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Then she sent the marten off to the dens of the mountain bears, to gather the foam from their angry lips as they fought with one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

This family includes the weasel (its smallest member), the stoat, the ferret, the pole-cat, the marten, and the otter (its largest member).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox Stories of Natural History] Reference