On one hunting expedition I caught an animal known as a polecat, and that betrayed me, because its scent got on the dogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson. Born the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1819, and Joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839. This Book Shall Be Called the Young Men's Guide, Or, The Brother in White.] Reference
Sorry to hijack this thread again - anyone found a new kind of polecat we could name after Bill?. From Wordnik.com. [Laonastes/ Diatomys/ kha-nyou/ rat-squirrel - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
DeBeauvoir said that was the only incident of a "polecat" she has heard about in Travis. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
But, Wednesday night gave me a polecat philharmonic. From Wordnik.com. [The Mondays: Sometimes the Muse Is In the Bushes] Reference
"I just know you're going to enjoy life as a polecat, Kid.". From Wordnik.com. [She Is The Darkness]
I stayed filthy dirty all the time and stunk like a polecat. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Ernest Seeman, February 13, 1976. Interview B-0012. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
My bipod is a rubber legged polecat, and is terrible in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Field & Stream] Reference
"You're getting 'dangerously close to that polecat territory again,". From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
That polecat accountant, Milt Stone, wanted a private skull session. From Wordnik.com. [City of Baraboo]
Check out some videos and images of different polecat species below. From Wordnik.com. [The Smelliest Animal Ever?] Reference
Ferret doesn't sound great but so much better than weasel or polecat. From Wordnik.com. [The complicated story of Rielle Hunter and Jonathan Darman, the Newsweek reporter.] Reference
For a country that not many years ago was the polecat of the world, South. From Wordnik.com. [Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament] Reference
You can rely on the Chingford polecat to come up with the goods in a crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Here and there a polecat was intermixed and hunter's poles in great abundance. From Wordnik.com. [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference
It may be something else, in the chimney, or a worm in the wood, or a polecat. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
He plucked the songbirds, skinned the polecat, set the hide aside to be tanned. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
If you can convert a man by callin 'him a polecat, why, call him one, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
“Whew-eee, Miss Ethel looks like a peeved polecat,” John said in a loud voice. From Wordnik.com. [CLEANSINGS • by JB Smith] Reference
Many a rat, and stoat, and polecat had reason to wish them far away, I can tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
We tried cayenne pepper and n-butyl mercaptan -- the main ingredient in "polecat essence.". From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference
A horrible stench announced that one of those had taken a black-and-whioe New World polecat. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
Duggan told me in the City Arms. Husband rolling in drunk, stink of pub off him like a polecat. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
It has a mane like the horse, horns like the stag, a face like the bear, eyes like the polecat, and. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
I feel the paranoia setting in and I'm twitchier than a long-tailed polecat in a room full of rocking chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Blabby... advice for a lame duck president] Reference
The polecat of the global financial community shed that image enforced by the sanctions campaign of the 1980's as South. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It was a solution to the NP problem of how to depart from the pariah or polecat status of a criminal, illegitimate regime to. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Wolf (Canis lupus), foxes (Vulpes vulpes, V. corsac) and Siberian polecat (Mustela eversmanni) are typical steppe carnivores. From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh steppe] Reference
"In a period of only five years, we have changed this country completely from the polecat of the world to the miracle of the world.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mandela said white people had made the mistake in the past of supporting policies that made South Africa "the polecat of the world". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The goitered gazelle or djeiran (Gazella subgutturosa subgutturosa) and marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna) are also rare and endangered. From Wordnik.com. [Central Asian northern desert] Reference
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