It may be further remarked, that the American porcupinesare tree-climbers, and feed upon twigs and bark; in fact, lead a life very much resembling that of the sloths.
The monkeys and porcupines are hunted for the sake of these stones.
The fowls were waved over the heads of the people by the old men, while they prayed the porcupines to give them long life and health, and a token of their goodwill in the form of a smooth rounded pebble.
Last year some relatives of these Ibans moved to this village, and for three months the knowledge of the part played by the porcupines was hidden from them as a mysterious secret.
When the porcupines saw him coming; they ran to meet him, crying out, "Don't kill us!
And while he stood doubting, the porcupines turned round, and shot their prickly quills out at him so that they stuck in his body.
And the porcupines ran away into hiding before he could shoot.
One night we put fourteen inquisitive porcupines out of camp.
According to Schopenhauer's famous simile of the freezing porcupines no one can tolerate a too intimate approach to his neighbour.
A company of porcupines crowded themselves very close together one cold winter's day so as to profit by one another's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death.
A real Indian boy in the woods knows that porcupines give up their quills all too willingly.
Porcupines are hunted for their quills and easily captured by men as they are slow and awkward.
He delights in solitude, and cares not for his own kind; yet now and then you will stumble upon a whole convention of porcupines at the base of some rocky hill, each one loafing around, rattling his quills, grunting his name Unk Wunk!
A thousand generations of fat and healthy porcupines have taught him the folly of trouble and rush and worry in a world that somebody else has planned, and for which somebody else is plainly responsible.
But the baby porcupines were quite happy, and their mother, clumsy as she was, was clever enough never to let any of the quills touch her little ones.
It was in this way: A baseball match was on with The Porcupines from near the Fort.
In the pitcher's box he puzzled the Porcupines till they grew desperate and hit wildly and blindly, amid the jeers of the spectators.
The bewilderment of the Porcupines was equaled only by the enthusiasm of Hi and his nine, and when the game was over the score stood 37 to 7 in favor of the Home team.
And I believe that this sort of hospitality does more to make the world worth living in than much conventional hugging to your bosom of porcupines whose language you do not speak, yet with whom it is embarrassing to keep silence.
What," asked the porcupines of one another, "can they be doing, all alone there in those solitary huts?
The fact is that porcupines are not extremely common among the very "common" people.
A cup of strong beef-tea taken for supper disturbed mine; then the porcupines kept up such a grunting and chattering near our heads, just on the other side of the log, that sleep was difficult.
Those two warriors mangled by arrows, and with shafts sticking to their bodies, looked beautiful like a couple of porcupines with their quills erect.
Both pierced with arrows, O king, in that battle, they looked beautiful like a couple of porcupines with quills erect on their bodies.
Making porcupines of them by means of my arrowy showers, I will give thee the earth.
When winter was drawing near its close, but spring had not yet sent the wilderness word of her coming, the porcupines got her message in their blood.
The sound was far from melodious, but it pleased every one of the wild kindred to whose ears it came; for they knew that when the porcupines got trying to sing, then the spring thaws were hurrying up from the south.
In this snug house the twoporcupines settled contentedly for the winter.
In their excursion they had killed a buffaloe, a wolf, two porcupines and a white hare.
At the distance of fourteen miles we reached the mouth of a river on the north, which from the unusual number of porcupines near it, we called Porcupine river.
How I wish there never had been any porcupines in the world, or that all of them had died before silly, hateful people ever thought of trimming hat with them!
In the same way the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature.
A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse.
In our Canadian camps the bears were for ever grunting about among the provision bags at night, porcupines scratching unceasingly, and chipmunks scuttling over everything.
Here we found skinned carcasses of porcupines and a heap of wild mutton lying on the confused hut floor.
Porcupines were so numerous as to be obtainable as often as needed, but Roly one day discovered a new kind of game.
The porcupines were thrown into the fire, that the quills might burn away, Uncle Will remarking that such chickens needed a great deal of singeing.
Porcupines damage a lot of trees and should be killed.
It was an ideal place, wholly remote from everything human--a haunt of wonderful trout, peaceable porcupines and tame birds.
But the porcupines went on galumphing around us, and none of the collection seemed much disturbed.
Porcupines spend a considerable amount of time inside hollow linden, yellow birch, and hemlock trees, as shown by the large piles of droppings noted at the lower openings of numerous such hollow trees.
In and around a cabin on Lindsley Lake a number of deer-mice were trapped, and signs that porcupines had invaded the cabin were noted.
Porcupines commonly walk out on the logs of the swamp to secure the water lily leaves, and probably the mink occasionally runs over the logs in its movements along the waterways.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "porcupines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
