While the Badgers were living in the dugout a party of about one thousand Omaha Indians came up the river on a hunting trip.
The Badgershad a corn field between the log house and the river.
Later, Brock would lead the baby badgers on their first rambles, in the days when they were learning to look after themselves.
His jaws were uncommonly strong--no other animal of equal size could boast such a pair--and no dog that had not been trained to bait badgers could have attacked him with impunity.
Had there been other males in the neighbourhood, a fight for supremacy might have been necessary, but the nearest badgers were many miles away and this pair had the district to themselves.
For awhile they travelled together, then he walked alone, and in his clumsy fashion brought some fresh roots and bulbs down to the warm earth where three blind baby badgers shared the fern leaf couch with his mate.
Differs from the European and Siberian badgers in the form of the skull.
Some of the old badgers would, undoubtedly, escape the deluge and get past the dogs, but they would be driven away to hunt other ground for their tunneling.
Drownings-out were exciting affairs, for the badgers always gave the pack a fine tussle before they were despatched; and she was allowed to attend them if she would promise to remain on the high seat of the wagon, out of harm's way.
This timidity and industry had been taken advantage of when the badgers began their colonization of the wheat-field, and the pocket and a second tunnel completed; so that the result was a comfortable residence and, finally, an ideal nursery.
This happened several times, and now the family of Badgers were only kept from starving by the gifts of the kind-hearted little Bear.
Crying bitterly, the homeless Badgers went off into the woods to seek another place of shelter.
Truly, there is much to be said on both sides; but perhaps you can agree more easily after you have heard my story.
It was a mink, with his slender brown body and wicked eyes, and he had crept very close to the Crane, hoping to seize him at his meal!
Here, in the days of our immediate ancestors, Badgers were plentiful.
He can remember when there was larger game than now, when badgers and wild cats were not uncommon.
Badgers are quite susceptible of domestication, and a friend had a pair which he led about in collars.
Badgers have their haunt deep in the brambles, their tortuous burrows running far out among the boulders.
In this wild fruit paradise at least two pairs of badgers bred.
Cats and foxes seem to have been looked upon as uncanny beasts all the world over; but it is new to me that badgersshould have a place in fairy-land.
The badgers were more irregular as to the time when they left the "set" than were any of the other inhabitants.
Generally she ventured abroad before the badgers awoke from the day's sleep, came back during their absence, and once more stole out to feed when they had returned and were resting in their snuggery.
Droll, indeed, were the revels of the youngbadgers when the parents were hunting far away.
Next night, stiff and sore from her wounds, she crawled out into the wood, and Vulp and his vixen put an end to her misery long before the badgers ventured from their lair.
Only a week before he had set steel traps at a den where he chanced to find a pair of Badgers in residence.
I had not time to tear down the whole mountain, so I did as my betters, the Bears and Badgers have done before me, I gave it up.
Badgers were familiar to him, but the peculiar yellow of this and the absence of black marks gave it a strange appearance.
And he knows where foxes and badgers and otters live.
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people.
A year or two ago three fine young badgers were captured near Bourton-on-the-Water, on the Cotswolds.
Badgers are almost as mysterious in their ways and habits as the otter.
Badgers would make delightful pets if they had a little less scent: nature, as everybody knows, has endowed them with this quality to a remarkable degree; they have the power of emitting or retaining it at their own discretion.
Nobody believes there are badgers about except those who look for their characteristic tracks about the fox-earths.
It is about the size of the true badger, and ordinarily lives on small game, as badgers do; but, in addition to this, it is fond of varying its diet with a little honey.
Them badgers would dig down to hell itself,' said Magragh.
Greybrush, too terrified to move, lay still in the middle, which was perhaps the best thing he could have done, for the two badgers groped round the walls and thus missed him.
This burra' goes into the "earth" below, and there's badgers in it.
There the badgers went one evening at sunset, and feasted on the great worms which were tempted out by the coolness of the night, and on the pignuts in the clearings.
There are few winter nights in Knockdane that are not either cold or wet, and such nights the badgers eschewed.
The cattle slept in the dewy grass, and, stealing in among them, the badgershunted every inch of ground for beetles.
At such times the badgersresorted to a hollow in a path, along which horses had passed in winter when the mud was deep.
The last two nights it had rained, and thebadgers had lain a-bed, but to-night was fine and mild again.
Every tree and herb and bird and beast has its own particular odour, and, as there is no directory of scent in the woods but that which each of the Fur Folk compiles for himself, the little badgers had to learn each separately.
The next evening the fox went out hunting, and when the badgers woke and gingerly investigated the dormitory, they found it empty.
The badgers came out with the rest, but they were lean with long fasting, and their toes were tender with much drowsy sucking.
She chose a starlit night--the badgers love the stars better than the moon--and led them to the burrow mouth.
Sometimes the badgers come out of their holes to look at them, and then the children are very much frightened because badgers are wise animals and play many tricks on people.
The pouched badgers explain themselves at once by their very name, like the Plyants, the Pinchwifes, the Brainsicks, and the Carelesses of the Restoration comedy.
The Badgers did not care to talk to Fish; They did not dote on Herrings' songs; They never had experienced the dish To which that name belongs.
There be three Badgers on a mossy stone, Beside a dark and covered way.
Gently the Badgers trotted to the shore-- The sandy shore that fringed the bay.
Young badgers have a white stripe between the eyes.
They also kill badgers and when conditions are very favorable may kill an occasional deer or antelope.
They are very fond of mutton, prairie dogs, badgers and sage hens.
Jack rabbits, cotton-tails, prairie dogs, badgers and sage hens make good bait for wolves and of these the jack rabbit is preferred, perhaps because it contains so much blood.
The Badgers now incorporated themselves with another broken body of Landsknechts, and fell under the command of a better and more conscientious captain.
I'm here with half Flanders to see this mighty show, and pick up a few more lusty Badgers at this encounter of old comrades.
Stephen heard him swearing by Saint George what a place this would be for a sack, if his Badgers were behind him.
Honour would befit me quite as well as that old fellow, Prosper Colonna; and the Badgers would well become the Pope's scarlet and yellow liveries.
English Badgers translated the word to the Germans, and set them shouting with derision.
The badgers have for neighbours stoats and weasels, carrion crows, jays, and owls.
It was a huge task, but there were many to help, and in the end the badgers were found, old and young together, and killed.
The badgers had eaten her maize which she needed for fattening the geese, and her tongue was busily employed in wishing them every misfortune, both in time and eternity.
Badgers and foxes, with all their vices, are preferable to the hyenas which used to infest this part of France, as is proved by the bones found in the larger caverns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "badgers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
