They charged down upon the army of stoats and polecats with a force and velocity which rendered resistance impossible.
But I may as well frankly tell you at once that nothing ever astonished me more than the scene which followed the attempt of the stoats and polecatsto cross {209}the river in order to attack the owl's castle.
Then comes disease to man and beast, and whenever I think of it I regret that Canetto did not serve the wretched old hag as he did her polecats and adders, and direct his mannikins to cut her in pieces with their hunting-whips.
Foes hardly less dreaded, because of their insatiable thirst for blood, were two polecats living in a hole half-way up the wall of a ruined cottage not far from the hillside farm-house.
At other times the polecats would have stopped, perhaps slunk away to cover; now they gave no heed, no more indeed than to the ruddy sky that told of the coming sun.
The sight of the polecats had so frightened him that he was incapable of movement; it was some minutes before he had sufficiently recovered to continue on his way.
His eyes are directed to the spot on the hedge where he had passed; for he is sure that the polecats before now have struck his trail.
Suddenly the cry ceased: the polecats had come on the maze, and in silence devoted themselves to the business of unravelling it.
The polecats had happened on his line amongst the furze above the mill-pool, and run it in the right direction from the first.
For while the polecats were busy working out the tortuous line in the oats he forged ahead and gained High Down, where he busied himself in laying a most intricate maze.
I got to go after them polecats that beat me up and just quit here.
And foxes and martens and buzzards and polecats and ermines are to be preserved for five years.
The result is that there is such an immense number of foxes and martens and polecats and buzzards out here that one of us can hardly stir from her hole without risking her life.
It was the owner of the field coming on tiptoe to see if one of the polecats that ate his chickens during the night had been caught in his trap.
The poor puppet had been taken in a trap put there to capture some big polecats which were the scourge of the poultry-yards in the neighborhood.
The rebels behaved like cruel wild beasts; they were worse than polecats in an aviary, and they met with about the same resistance as the polecats would meet.
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