Mostly rats and mongooses averaging four feet tall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time of the Transference]

Narayan and his arm-holders moved like mongooses striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams of Steel]

But predictably, there are now too many mongooses/mongeese ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbados Report - No 1] Reference

The mongooses were certainly acting as if they believed the cobras were real.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

The tallest of the mongooses ordered the captives released from their prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time of the Transference]

If not, mebbe de foxes jobs has been outsourced to mongoose…mongeese…mongooses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fired Fox - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

And now I know the plural of mongoose is acceptably: mongoose, mongeese, or mongooses.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist men...] Reference

The mongooses nosed the bodies sprawled amid the broken chairs, then looked up at Peter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

Nisha was gone as well as the mongooses, but that only meant she was hunting early tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

Its numbers plummeted when predators such as dogs, cats and mongooses arrived with colonists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

The cobras struck, twin lances of death hurtling through the thickening mist at the mongooses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

EwokEmpire: well, change! or else move to madagascar. the mongooses would be happy to have you.    From Wordnik.com.  [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference

When nesting, sand grouse are highly vulnerable to foxes, jackals, mongooses, and other predators.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Chicken] Reference

A pink T-shirt that reads "Manakuke Manoa School; 1989-90" with reading mongeese (mongi? mongooses?).    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

Teaching of hunting, for example, is likely to be common among felines, mongooses and birds of prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meerkat Teacher] Reference

The serpents, in their turn, were alerted by the movement, and fixed their attention on the mongooses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

The mongooses sat alertly on either side of her feet, and when she glanced down at them, they looked up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

But he thought he caught sight of faces and bodies overlaying the forms of enormous cobras and mongooses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

Who would have thought a show about a pack of mongooses roaming the South African desert would be such a hit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Week in DVR: SAG Turns 75, Tila Tequila Fights for Gay Rights?, and Coldplay Does <i>The Daily Show</i>] Reference

My guess is that perhaps meerkats and mongooses use monocular cues i.e. movement to detect scorpions and snakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snakes in Primate Vision] Reference

Cats are more closely related to civets, mongooses and hyena, while dogs are kin to bears, raccoons and weasels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fun with Hominin Cranial Capacity Datasets (and Excel) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

My Lonely Planet guide said that the mongooses mongeese? completely wiped out several species of poisonous snakes in Jamaica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why did the mongoose cross the road?] Reference

The surviving species later suffered when forests were cleared and cats, dogs, mongooses, and other predators were introduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 Agouti] Reference

A moment more, however, and a swirl of mongooses enveloped Peter Scott's ankles, while Charan took imperious possession of his lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

'These mongooses may represent a separate subspecies from the one that exists in Kenya,' said Dr. De Luca of WCS 'Tanzania Program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

He knew that mongooses in the garden meant death sooner or later for him and his family; but he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off his guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Lizards and mongooses are less unwelcome visitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir] Reference

My greetings to all, even the mongooses, though they don't deserve it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference

Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for the mongooses are light sleepers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Book] Reference

Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for all the mongooses are light sleepers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference

Creatures like monster rats -- they were really mongooses -- racing for their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of Power] Reference

He knew that mongooses in the garden meant death sooner or later for him and his family, but he wanted to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Book] Reference

The mongooses attacked the rats, cleaned them out, multiplied, and then looked about for more worlds to conquer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

We don't have hyenas, mongooses or wolverines in Colorado, so you can be sure that a clawless track came from a cat and not a coyote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

Africa a nap is not healthy; so I drowsily watched the mongooses that had again come out of seclusion, and the monkeys, and the birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [African Camp Fires] Reference

He knew that mongooses in the garden meant death sooner or later for him and his family, but he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off his guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference

One evenin ', him an' me was trespassin 'ovver a compound wall after one of them mongooses' at he'd started, an 'we was busy grubbin' round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldiers Three] Reference