To all the early settlers in the bush the bandicoot is well known.
I turned toward the hut suspiciously, and saw the bandicoot sitting on a top-rail, watching me, and dangling her feet to and fro.
Finn would have been delighted, really, to make friends with creatures like the bandicoot people, and to enjoy their society at intervals--when he was well fed.
Then the flying tail of a bandicoot caught Finn's attention, and the passing that way of an unusually fat bull-dog ant drew Echidna from reflection to business, and the oddly ill-matched couple parted after their first meeting.
The bandicoot is the size of a large rat, of a dark brown colour; it feeds upon roots, and its flesh is good eating.
The bandicoot is about four times he size of a rat, without a tail, and burrows in the ground or in hollow trees.
His children by B have theBandicoot totem, his children by C have the Grub totem.
Thus, for example, we have a group of men and women who believe themselves descended from an ancestor who had the bandicoot for his totem; they all respect bandicoots; and they are all calledbandicoot people.
The English term bandicoot is a corruption of the Telinga name pandikoku, literally pig-rat.
They catch bandicoot rats by a method known as voodarapettuta.
The next person they spied was a Bandicootcarrying a watermelon.
Conceiving that his hour had come, the Bandicoot gave a shrill squeak of terror and fell on his knees.
Leaving the Bandicootto pursue his quavering, melon-humping existence, they set off again, Bill giving way to some very despondent expressions.
No bandicoot ever went into his hole with the dogs after him quicker than Jim came out of his.
I mooched round all the evening like an orphan bandicoot on a burnt ridge, and then I went up to the pub and filled myself with beer, and damned the world, and came home and went to bed.
Illustration] Conceiving that his hour had come, the Bandicoot gave a shrill squeak of terror and fell on his knees.
It was by the side of one of these streams that they had made their mid-day halt, and had cooked in his skin the young bandicoot that Alec had shot in the morning.
When assailed it grunts like a pig, hence its Telegu name Pandi-koku, from which the word bandicoot is derived.
In some parts of the country, as for instance Fort St. George in Madras, Government used to pay a reward of one anna for every bandicoot killed within the walls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandicoot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
