"Now hand us the trap, and we will get ready for the musquash.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories] Reference

Ferlorner than a musquash, ef you'd took an 'dreened his swamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

The boys made sure of this, not fancying the idea of having to depend upon the musquash alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

Sure enough, Jim cut up the musquash, and gave evidences of satisfaction at finding them so plump.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

A frock of white silk velvet brocade, over which was worn a mantle cloak of black chiffon and musquash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Black Dress | Edwardian Promenade] Reference

"Because a curious and hungry musquash, anxious to reach the bait I stuck on a splinter of wood just above the trap, set it off.".    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

Maigret had no idea; the wife of a divisional superintendent usually had to make do with rabbit fur or, at best, musquash and racoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and Monsieur Charles]

As if the river was not there before the musquash was!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Harvest] Reference

In fact, it probably was a musquash trail in some places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

“And I sadly fear the deadly musquash will pursue them.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

Ferlorner than a musquash, ef you'd took an 'dreened his swamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

A musquash came by, and rubbed his nose against the canoe, and nibbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ways of Wood Folk] Reference

Lone pine in the deserted vale where the musquash watches for his prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

I think I took the most comfort in catching musquash of anything I used to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [My thirty years out of the Senate] Reference

The muskrat (watsuss, or musquash) is very abundant in all the small grassy lakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference

To this class belongs that intelligent but injurious animal the musquash or muskrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference

De musquash, w'at you call de mushrat -- dat don 'hurt de meat 'cause you call um rat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Connie Morgan in the Fur Country] Reference

He eats no hot bread and sweet cake, but musquash and moose-meat and the fat of bears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

He seemed suddenly to have quite forsaken humanity, and gone over to the musquash side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

'Oh Mum, your beautiful musquash, the fur coat you'd been saving up for all those years.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

He did not like him, and declared that all he said "was not worth talk about a musquash.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

I feel no disposition to be satirical, when the trapper's coat emits the odor of musquash even; it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excursions] Reference

For then, brothers, if our people came down with only a few musquash skins, we went home with glad hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

It reminded me of the Concord; and what increased the resemblance, was one old musquash house almost afloat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

But just then another musquash carelessly trod on the big musquash's tail and the old musquash roared with pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

As in the case of the musquash (or muskrat), a strange instinct guides the beaver as to the height of his dwelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ways of Wood Folk] Reference

It takes him a good while; but he will come all right by-and-by, Sir, -- as sound as a woodchuck, -- as sound as a musquash!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

The other voyageur, perhaps, would in the mean while have seen a brown hawk, or a woodchuck, or a musquash creeping under the alders.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference

I obtained 13 large beaver, 19 small, 25 musquash; also received from Henry Goddin 35 large beaver in payment of his debt to the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Peter Skene Ogden; Snake Expedition, 1827-1828] Reference

I reckon that trap will hold a musquash next time it catches one. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories] Reference