Perhaps I dare not lengthen out my story With those events succeeding time begot, Lest some disaster should eclipse their glory, And the pure ermines of their pleasures spot.
Well, I trust, since I see you at freedom--And how will you settle precedence between the three erminespassant and the bear and bootjack?
And the gold and silver go there, and the ermines and sables; and there go the harpers and jongleurs, and the kings of the world.
I did not like the idea of the harmless ptarmigans being eaten by ermines and owls, so I raised my gun and knocked him over.
Besides hunting foxes, we were to trap ermines and kill white hares, for I wanted to have a rug of their skins.
Once during the day, as the ferrets were turned into a burrow, some one pointed out a brace of ermines that had doubtless been looking after the rabbits on their own account.
This little incident reminds us of a brown owl which emerged from a rabbit-hole just as the ermines did, and curiously enough these birds had a couple of eggs and a young one even in December, with the ground snow-covered.
To this fur the books now give the name of "ermines"--a most unfortunate choice, since ermines is a name used in old documents for the original ermine.
The three ermines passant and rampant bear would certainly have gone together by the ears.
And how will you settle precedence between the three erminespassant and the bear and boot-jack?
The skin of this animal is very valuable; it is far more beautiful than that of the white rabbit; but it very soon changes somewhat yellow; though indeed the ermines of these climates have always a yellow shade.
Barrere, and the greyermines of Tartary and the North of China, mentioned by some travellers, are also animals different from our weasels and ermines.
Noble furniture from the lathes of Poitiers, decorated with the royal ermines of Brittany, stood about the many alcoves.
The size is about what would be expected if one were to judge by the slightly larger ermines on the islands of southeastern Alaska to the north and the smaller ermine on Vancouver Island to the south.
The effect of this isolation is easily seen if ermines from the Queen Charlotte Islands are compared with those of the opposite mainland.
If transfers of this kind occurred often one would expect ermines to occur also on Saint Lawrence Island where apparently they do not.
In 1944 separate subspecific rank was accorded ermines on several of the islands of southeastern Alaska which proportionately restricted the range assigned to alascensis.
In view of the above considerations the ermines of the New and Old worlds are here regarded as only subspecifically distinct.
Between any two islands that are geographically consecutive, however, and between the mainland and the first island of the chain, the difference in the ermines is small.
Therefore, a possible inference is that the distinctive characters of ermines of the Alaskan islands developed with the aid of isolation from stocks which reached the islands after the glacial period.
The ermines of the islands of southeastern Alaska, excepting possibly the incompletely known seclusa, have fewer characters of the Arctic races and more characters of the races of the adjoining mainland.
Ermines were found in considerable numbers, and in the first week four fine sables were killed, as well as two martens and a bear; the latter was specially prized.
The bodies of the ermines were but a mouthful for one of the dogs, while the sables and martens gave them a mouthful all round.
Why I've been to the Tsar's banquet; there was a whole lot of us beasts there, and of sables and ermines no end.
Why, all the wild beasts were there, and as for the sables and erminesthere was no end to them!
At Port Kennedy several ermines and lemmings were also caught.
The two middle panels have the sacred monogram, those on the east side ermines surrounded by cordelières.
Both chiefs wore the ermines emblazoned on their armour and their standards; and relatives and friends were ranged in battle array against each other.
