If your mum thought it a rat, I think the vole is the smaller of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Mammal] Reference
This vole, which is described and figured by Milne-Edwards, is supposed to have been found in Afghanistan from a specimen in. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
A vole is a single-bite snack to a coyote, he had the opportunity to eat him several times during this encounter but didn't. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
"But a vole is a mammal," Dug protested. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
Ou alors on te tabasse, on te vole ... ou les deux. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 719 pp. (2 vole). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
Etquand meme elle me vole pas honteusement ca c gentil!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
I remember one dinner party at which the meat course was vole. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
Alex opened the top of the cage to lift out a vole by its tail. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
The danger passed, but that night the old vole failed to return. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
St. Augustine, Trinidad: University of the West Indies (2 vole). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 809 pp. (5 vole). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
vole-like this latter undoubtedly was, yet he was no ordinary vole. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Dug blinked in the bright light as they emerged from the vole hole. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
Many a foolish bewildered vole he caught, but never a harvest mouse. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
I do not mean to assert that the water-vole is never injurious to man. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference
College of Tropical Agriculture, University of Hawaii, 171 pp. (2 vole). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
Alex let the vole drop into the cage and switched the full cage with an empty. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
Hawaii: College of Tropical Agriculture, University of Hawaii, 171 pp. (2 vole). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 30] Reference
Distribution, variation, and relationships of the montane vole, Microtus montanus. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Aspects of reproduction and development in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
His clumsy movements availed but little against the fierce agility of the red vole. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
A population study of the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in northeastern Kansas. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Although the balls had missed the water-vole, they must have sharply jarred the stump. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference
She summoned a giant of the vole family of creatures, a diggle, who worked for a song. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Honolulu, Hawaii: College of Tropical Agriculture, University of Hawaii, 171 pp. (2 vole). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
Au niveau macro-conomique, les avantages sont considrables pour les pays en vole de dveloppement. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
Once his back is dried, all together, the three mousmes and himself, play at Japanese pigeon-vole. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Small as he was, and crouching as only a vole can crouch, there was no escape from contact with it. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The water-vole is really a relative of that interesting creature you have often read of -- I mean the beaver. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Delicate chestnut fur, brilliant white feet, a whitish waistcoat, and a paste-coloured two-inch tail proclaimed the red vole at once. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Nor could he cover the ground with the easy swinging jump that makes one suspect relationship between the red vole and the wood-mouse. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The vole was not so far wrong after all, for could anything, whose intelligence was otherwise than laughable, be in his present plight?. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
He was never graceful, like his cousin the red vole, for his face was blunted, his eyes small, and his tail ridiculously insignificant. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
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