We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
Peace to groundhogs and hedgehogs and porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [Another Way of Thinking About Time--] Reference
They are bristly and sharp, like nightmarish porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Writing] Reference
HANNA: No, I'll get you a porcupine, because porcupines are. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
Altogether he considered the world a happy place for porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
I cannot sleep; my pillow is stuffed with a litter of porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchess of Malfi] Reference
Might the sunken bucket trap (see below) be adapted for porcupines?. From Wordnik.com. [8: Plant protection and pest control] Reference
One of the staff members told me that these kids are like porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [Lissa Coffey: Time Well Spent: Volunteering in the Foster Care System] Reference
He said conservatives are restrictive and intolerant like porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [Failure of Center-Right Conservative Values, Principles, Ideology, Philosophy & Polices] Reference
'One can't expect manners or sympathy from seafaring porcupines like you. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
With the economy in a slump why even porcupines could be getting pink slips. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2009] Reference
In times of scarcity, however, porcupines offer a high fat meal on a limited menu. From Wordnik.com. [Kalahari xeric savanna] Reference
There were even 253 collisions with bats and 120 with rodents including porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Bill Clinton Has Really Changed, Right?] Reference
This animal, which is allied to the porcupines, is about three and a half feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Making porcupines of them by means of my arrowy showers, I will give thee the earth. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Taxonomically, they are more closely related to porcupines than to common rats or mice. From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
One who survived for a while on porcupines was able to report they taste just like pork. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Animal fossils include those of extinct sabre-toothed cats, giant porcupines and hyraxes. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In some localities rats and porcupines kill young trees by gnawing the bark around the base. From Wordnik.com. [3 The Tree] Reference
Their bodies mangled and pierced all over with arrows, they looked, O king, like two porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
There's three porcupines in the world, South American, North American and the African porcupine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2003] Reference
The blood was beginning to move in my hands and feet and they felt like four point-down porcupines. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Director of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was also there, who taught me how to pick up porcupines bare-handed. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
And many amongst them had bodies like those of dogs and porcupines and iguanas and goats and sheep and cows. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
"Peevish porcupines," grunted the old cow-puncher, "but you've got yourself in up to ther neck in printer's ink.". From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Roger Sharland in Kenya has worse problems with baboons, followed by monkeys, jackals, porcupines, squirrels and rats!. From Wordnik.com. [8: Plant protection and pest control] Reference
"I want you toflip me on my back and scoop out my belly like a ripe melon, the way you do with porcupines," I say. From Wordnik.com. [A Night of Furversion] Reference
For example, a cougar in Montana, where I have seen dead porcupines, the cougar will try to turn that porcupine -- look. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2004] Reference
Its bones, if not devoured by tigers or porcupines, will most likely be found higher up the nala than where we last saw it. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Prominently displayed was the Wisconsin badger, and other cases contained bear, deer, and porcupines in characteristic attitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Both pierced with arrows, O king, in that battle, they looked beautiful like a couple of porcupines with quills erect on their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
One of two newborn Brazilian porcupines checks out its new habitat -- some of this hour's "Hot Shots," pictures often worth 1,000 words. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2007] Reference
Wild pigs and tigers scratched their skins against the posts in the jungle, and porcupines and bandicoots burrowed them out of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Joe Brooks with the Denver Wildlife Research Center writes that porcupines in Pakistan died when they ate bait set out to poison wild boar. From Wordnik.com. [8: Plant protection and pest control] Reference
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