A mongoose is about three feet long from the nose to the tip of the tail, and is of the same genus as the civet cat.
And Little Black Mingo got the Mugger's beard for her seat, and the Mongoose got Black Noggy's handkerchief for his.
Mugger, and he ran back to the eggs as fast as he could, and sure enough when he got back he found the Mongoose had eaten a whole lot more!
So he ran off to Little Black Mingo, and asked her to help him, and Little Black Mingo came and took the big chatty off the eggs, and the Mongoose ate them every one.
So Little Black Mingo and the Mongoose got the nice little house for their very own, and there they lived happy ever after.
So she waded out as far as she could, and caught hold of the bush and pulled it in, and the poor Mongoose crawled up her arm on to her shoulder, and she carried him to shore.
Then he said to himself, "I must stay beside my eggs till they are hatched into little muggers, or the Mongoose will eat them all.
At the fearful noise Little Black Mingo and the Mongoose came running out, and there they found Black Noggy and the old Mugger all blown to bits.
When they got to shore the Mongoose shook himself, and Little Black Mingo wrung out her petticoat, and so they both very soon got dry.
By and by the Mongoose came back, and he was terribly disappointed when he found the eggs all covered with the big chatty.
She got up and looked to see what was calling, and she saw a bush coming floating down the river with something wriggling and scrambling about in it, and as it came near she saw that it was a Mongoose that was in the bush.
But while he was asleep the Mongoose came to eat some more of the eggs, and ate as many as he wanted, and when the Mugger woke this time, oh!
The Mongoose then began to poke about for something to eat, and very soon he found the great big pile of Mugger's eggs.
Mongoose has come" is a preconcerted formula which means, "the other man has come, Dory, look out!
Unfortunately rats sleep in the day and the mongoose sleeps at night, so they never met.
How the mongoose took instead to killing chickens has been often told.
The mongoose was introduced into Jamaica to kill the rats.
Since the introduction of the mongoose they have become scarcer.
Adam looked carefully at the mongoose box as the African went by, and was glad to see that it was intact.
Lady Arabella looked more than ever disdainful and was passing on; the mongoose jumped at her in a furious attack.
To his intense astonishment the mongoose allowed her to pet him, take him up in her arms and fondle him.
Now, from what you tell me, the negro had just come from the direction of Diana's Grove, carrying the dead snakes which the mongoose had killed the previous morning.
May it not be that a mongoose may have merely the instinct to attack, that nature does not allow or provide him with the fine reasoning powers to discriminate who he is to attack?
One of them contained a mongoose to replace that killed by Lady Arabella; the other was the special mongoose which had already killed the king-cobra in Nepaul.
Mongoose," said Adam, and then added explanatorily: "I was out with the mongoose just after three.
The mongoose had by this time become accustomed to him, and was willing to let himself be handled freely.
When Adam got home, he put the mongoose in his box, and locked the door of the room.
In the other box the new mongoose lay dead, with every appearance of having been strangled!
On the stone steps outside stood Oolanga, with the mongoose box slung over his shoulder.
When they had come out on the roadway Adam held the mongoose tight to him, and, lifting his hat to his companion, moved quickly towards Lesser Hill; he and Lady Arabella lost sight of each other in the thickening gloom.
When Adam got back to Lesser Hill, he went to the coach-house where the box with the mongoose was kept, and took it with him, intending to finish at the Mound of Stone what he had begun the previous morning with regard to the extermination.
When Ross heard what was wanted, he asked: "Do you want something special, or will an ordinary mongoose do?
The hut floor closes upon a red-lit view of huddled legs and bodies, and the man with the mongoose sinking, sinking on to his knees, his head bowed forward, and the little hairy devil chattering on the nape of his neck.
The lamp for the opium-pipe is the only one in the room, and lights a scene as wild as anything in the witches' revel; the mongoose acting as the familiar spirit.
This latter has a pet mongoose coiled round his neck.
The food of the mongoose (Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus Hodgson) in St. Croix and Puerto Rico.
Large numbers of the American and Australian cockroaches were eaten by the mongoose in Hawaii (Perkins, 1913).
Illustration] The Mongoose then began to poke about for something to eat, and very soon he found the great big pile of Mugger's eggs.
Illustration] But while he was asleep the Mongoose came to eat some more of the eggs, and ate as many as he wanted, and when the Mugger woke this time, oh!
Illustration] Then he said to himself, "I must stay beside my eggs till they are hatched into little muggers, or the Mongoose will eat them all.
And Little Black Mingo got the Mugger's head for her seat, and the Mongoose got Black Noggy's handkerchief for his.
Illustration] When they got to shore the Mongoose shook himself, and Little Black Mingo wrung out her petticoat, and so they both very soon got dry.
Illustration] So he ran off to Little Black Mingo, and asked her to help him, and Little Black Mingo came and took the big chatty off the eggs, and the Mongoose ate them every one.
Illustration] By and by the Mongoose came back, and he was terribly disappointed when he found the eggs all covered with the big chatty.
Illustration] At the fearful noise Little Black Mingo and the Mongoose came running out, and there they found Black Noggy and the old Mugger all blown to bits.
I am told that up to date the damage done by the mongoose far exceeds the value of the benefit it once conferred, but the total has not been computed.
The fierce temper, indomitable courage and vaulting appetite of the mongoose would make its actual introduction in any of the warm portions of the United States a horrible calamity.
In spite of the vigilance of our custom house officers, every now and then a Hindoo from some foreign vessel sneaks into the country with a pet mongoose (and they do make great pets!
The last count in the indictment may seem hard to believe; but it is a fact that the Indian mongoose often resorts to fruit and vegetable food.
The mongoosecan live wherever a rat can live, provided it can get a fair amount of animal food.
Every country that now is without the mongoose will do well to shut and guard diligently all the doors by which it might be introduced.
His temper is so fierce that one "pet" mongoose has been known to kill a full grown male giant bustard, and put a greyhound to flight.
It would require many pages to contain a full account of each introduction, awakening, reckoning of damages and payment of bounties for destruction that the fiendish mongoose has wrought out wherever it has been introduced.
These animals are very useful in sugar plantations, and are largely employed to keep down the serpents and rats with which they abound, for the carnivorous little mongooseis extremely partial to such prey.
Artificial inoculations of cobra venom into the mongoose fully substantiated all the observed facts as to its remarkable immunity from this poison.
I think that the mongoose is not half so sly or sharp as a good cat, and a mongoose, moreover, has to be taught how to kill a Rat (just the same as a dog).
I am fortunate in having actually seen a mongoose and a Rat put alive in a tub together, and the mongoose would not even look at the Rat.
And I maintain that the mongoose cannot compare with the ferret anytime, for the simple reason that a small ferret can get anywhere that a Rat can, whilst the mongoose must wait until the Rat comes out to feed.
For instance, if a board of a floor be left up for a mongoose to get under the floor, it can only get into one of the joists; but a ferret can follow a Rat wherever it goes.
Then again, the Rats can smell a mongoose even more strongly than they can smell a cat.
Louis declared that the mongoosewas a friend worth having, and immediately made a bargain with the huntsman to procure him a couple of them, and send them to Calcutta.
Khayrat invited the party to witness a battle between his mongoose and a couple of cobras his hunters had caught; and he killed them both, one at a time.
The mongoose ran along ahead of the boys while Louis told what he knew about him.
The mongoose ran into a vine of wild fruit, and shook several pieces of it on the head of a hermit, who sat thinking under a tree.
The Mongoose will find him when it comes after the fish, and if it finds him it will kill him.
The advice seemed good, and was acted upon; but in killing the Snake the Mongoose overheard the cry of the young Herons; and climbing the tree daily, he devoured all that the Snake had left.
He bad promised me a fight between the mongoose and a snake, and before presenting his little brass bowl for backsheesh he holds out a four-foot snake toward the eager little animal at the stake.
The mongoose nabs him by the neck in an instant, and would no doubt soon have finished him; but the assistants part them with wire crooks, putting the snake in a basket with several others and the mongoose in another.
The very clevermongoose came in last, at the end of his string.
The boy had no idea what a mongoose was, but he had the curiosity of youth and was unabashed, so he said, “May I ask what the mongoose is for?
The mongoosemeanwhile sat quietly licking its paw as though nothing particular had happened.
The instant the snake showed fight the conjurer had let it go, and the mongoose did the rest.
The conjurer certainly justified his reputation, and performed some extremely clever tricks, while the mongoose sat by with a blasé expression, taking very little interest in the proceedings.
I watched it with great attention, and I noticed that the mongoose only seemed to give the snake one single nip, and there was very little blood drawn.
The conjurer sat down again, pulled the mongoose towards him, and tied the end of his string to a chair leg, giving the little beast plenty of rope on which to play.
To them, no doubt, the game was absolutely meaningless; to me it seemed that the mongoose had “exceeded his instructions.
Some years ago I was in Calcutta, and, walking in the street one day, I was accosted by a man carrying a bag and leading a mongoose by a string.
The American Mongoose The American mongoose is the open licensed saloon.
The mongoose belongs to the Viverridae, or civet-cat family, which is closely allied to the Felidae, one of the most widely diversified among the carnivora.
The mongoose kills young pigs that roam, half wild, over the island; also lambs and kids.
When the mongoose has cleared off all the animal life, it turns its attention to the "ground provisions," and here it shows the varieties of its tastes and the strength of its jaws.
Like Pharaoh's rat in Egypt, to which it is allied, the mongoose is highly valued in India, and is often kept tame about the houses for the services that it renders in destroying snakes and other plagues.
The mongoose breeds six times a year, and each time there are from five to ten young ones.
In former times the "Moho" was a dainty on the tables of the Hawaiian kings, but its disappearance is probably due to the introduction of the obnoxious mongoose and to bush fires.
Recent collectors have failed to procure it, and it is therefore to be feared that, like Aestrelata caribbaea, it has been exterminated by the introduced mongoose and other animals.
The mongoose devours mice; the cat devours the mongoose; the dog devours the cat; the dog again is devoured by the spotted leopard.
Beholding him thus ensconced within the body of the cat, the mongoose and the owl both became hopeless of seizing their prey.
Clever in seizing their prey, though near, the mongoose and the owl felt unable to wean the mouse and the cat from that compact.
Indeed, beholding the cat and the mouse make that covenant for accomplishing their mutual ends, the mongoose and the owl both left that spot and went away to their respective abodes.
If I were to descend from this trap on the ground, without adequate precautions, the mongoose will surely seize and devour me.
That foe was none else than a restless mongoose of coppery eyes, of the name of Harita.
There are the mongoose and the owl, both waiting with evil intent.
The mongoose and its near relative, the ichneumon of northern Africa, are gray and a little larger than a rat.
The mongoose has only its quickness of attack and its thick fur for safeguard, and once fairly bitten, goes the way of all flesh into which the deadly poison is poured.
Having thus incidentally met the mongoose or ichneumon, we may pause to say a word on its tamability.
The plate containing the daily food of my mongoose is kept on a bracket just inside the cellar stairs.
At one of the stations where my husband was quartered, snakes were very numerous, and we used to keep a mongoosein the house to destroy them.
This, however, is not really the case, the mongoose depends upon its own vigilance and great agility for escaping from the fangs of even the most active serpent, for if bitten, it would die like any other animal.
Ev produced a flask, which Cam and Curt declined; but the super-mongoose took a few greedy licks at the cap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mongoose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
