Oh, if I were only young again I would bring back a regular army, and wipe those vile skunks out of existence.
She's not like thoseskunks who deserted us in our time of need at the Post on the far-off Yukon River.
Now it was perfectly well known to me that skunks will eat chickens if they have to.
I gathered up the kit, gun and cannon-cracker, and started back toward home, turning the question of hills and snakes and skunks over and over as I went along.
These things might help, doubtless; but I was intending to show in my monograph that it is only skunks we need; it is the scarcity of skunks that is the whole trouble--and the abundance of cats.
A family of skunks would rid my farm of the pest in a single summer and make inroads on the grubs of the entire community.
I knew, too, thatskunks like honey, that they had even tampered with my hives, reaching in at night through the wide summer entrances and tearing out the brood combs.
What chance had a family of skunksin this community?
Not until you have kept hens can you know, can you even have the will to believe, the number of skunks that den in the dark on the purlieus of your farm.
Yet he promised not to kill my three skunks in the stump; a rather doubtful pledge, perhaps, but at least a beginning toward the new earth I hoped to see.
It had been a hard winter for men and for skunks, particularly hard for skunks on account of the unbroken succession of deep snows.
Now, as the green of the springing blades began to show through the melting snow, it was with immense satisfaction that I thought of the three skunks under the stump.
It took me only a little while to figure out the enormous number of grubs that a fair-sized family of skunks would destroy in a summer.
On the Reservation both opossums and skunks were, in many instances, attracted to the reptile traps by the insects and other arthropods in them, rather than by lizards.
On several occasions opossums were caught and somewhat less frequently, spotted skunks (Spilogale interrupta).
These skunks probably prey regularly on lizards including the five-lined skink.
Them same three skunks had managed to keep so close onto the trail, that, afore I woke, they slipped up, took all three of the animals, and were miles away when I opened my eyes.
It may be theskunks are waitin' fur Lone Wolf," he muttered, as he stood with his arms bound to his side.
Yer see, themskunks didn't mean that I shouldn't get the best of 'em agin.
Now comrades, if we dig out a skunk, that den, that habitation is gone, is it not, and there is nothing left to induce other skunks to frequent that location.
I was not particularly in love with skunks in those days, for while they scented just as loud at that time as now they were vastly lacking in the money value.
This is only one case of many, which came under my observation, and especially in the case of taking skunks after they are so badly rubbed that they will not bring more than half the price of prime skins.
We're honest men up here; we ain't skunkswhat wants wot isn't our lawful rights.
He's come here to call us a pack o' skunks an' gophers.
Because you've just listened like silly sheep to the skunks who've come along since the fever broke out.
And the wonder is that they escape, even for this short time, the skunks and minks and muskrats that abound here, and that have a decided partiality for such tidbits.
I have known the ruffed grouse to come out of a dense wood and make its nest at the root of a tree within ten paces of the road, where, no doubt, hawks and crows, as well as skunks and foxes, would be less likely to find it out.
Bet them skunksin Eagle have cleaned out every head I owned.
Now Mrs. White-Spot was very proud of her little family, for they were as fine and handsome a litter of baby skunks as one might wish to see.
Mrs. White-Spot took up her position upon a large flat stone, just at the edge of the pool, and then went about teaching the little skunks how to take a bath.
Them skunks had got to think that we couldn't shoot.
Reckon ther's one of them skunks a watchin'," said Jim, suddenly stopping and calmly filling his pipe.
Reckon you stood up to them 'ere skunks as well as any man could ha done.
I reckon the skunks will crawl up here soon after it is dark; but they won't go much farther, for we might hide up somewhere and they might miss us.
Waal," Jerry said wrathfully, "onless they catch Harry asleep, some of the darned skunks will be rubbed out afore they get his scalp.
The skunks are confined to America, but South Africa has a very similar creature in the zorilla.
This disagreeable quality is developed in the skunks into an effective weapon of defense.
For presently, it seemed, word went abroad through the woods that some skunks were swift of foot and terrible of spring as a wildcat; and thenceforth allskunks of the Ringwaak country found the chase made more difficult for them.
Ef but a one o' the skunks hev the chance to eescape, the gurl'll be lost sure.
Though thar's no fear o' these hyur skunks tellin' tales, we must take percaushuns for all that.
Keep it locked account of skunks comin' in and makin' themselves to home.
Skunks is pecooliar things," said Cameron, endeavoring to prolong the conversation.
It rounded the bend and was nearly opposite Yan, when three little Skunks of this year's brood came toddling after the mother.
The skunks would be too slow and clumsy to catch the snakes in the open when they were fully active.
Skunks are probably more important natural enemies, but food habits data from the Reservation are lacking for the two kinds of skunks occurring there.
Skunks foraging mostly in twilight or darkness, probably find racers inactive beneath flat rocks or in shallow burrows.
Several times in many years of residence near Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, I saw remains of racers which appeared to be victims of stripedskunks (Mephitis mephitis).
We caught sight of a lot of those skunks on our way up," he continued, "but they were much too wily to come within reach of us.
A taxonomic revision of the spotted skunks (Genus Spilogale).
Eastern dogs frequently kill skunks and sustain bites, but do not thereby contract rabies.
The high mortality from the bites of rabid wolves and skunks is mainly due to this habit of attacking the face and hands.
The facts seem to warrant only the conclusion that skunks in certain districts of Michigan and Kansas have had rabies communicated to them, and follow the rabid impulse to bite other animals and men.
Anal glands largely developed; their secretion, which can be discharged at the will of the animal, has an intolerably offensive odour and has rendered skunks proverbial.
In the North American skunks of the genus Mephitis the dentition is i.
I don't think skunks like smoke any more than any other wild animals!
They anticipate no difficulty in taking up the trail of a troop like that Walt confidently declares he could do so were he blindfolded as their mules, adding, in characteristic phraseology, "I ked track the skunks by thar smell.
Ef there's none o' the skunks arter us, we kin take our time.
Twould be a burnin' shame for any Texan to do the hangin' o' sech skunks as they.
It sort o' serprised me how the skunks ked a budged it.
I have known the ruffed grouse to come out of a dense wood and make its nest at the root of a tree within ten paces of the road, where, no doubt, hawks and crows, as well as skunks and foxes, would be less liable to find it out.
It was because they was those skunks of swells that think other people is only made as floor wipes for 'em!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skunks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
