But neither stoat nor weasel learned of his new abode.
If a weasel or a stoat had entered the vole's new burrow during the period when the flood was at its highest, only the most fortunate circumstances could have saved its occupant.
Walking up the path, soon after nightfall, the badger had arrived on the scene of a woodland tragedy, and had found the stoat so engrossed with its victim that to kill the bloodthirsty little tyrant was the easy work of an instant.
Rabbits had wandered in the undergrowth; and, near a large warren, the stale, peculiar odour of a stoat that had evidently prowled at dusk lingered on the dewy soil.
On my bank I am safe for I can drop into the water, and the weasel or stoat that can follow me there may have all he can get.
The first lighted on a stoat in a ditch and could not strike it with the sharp talons before the angry little beast had jumped at its throat and bitten through the external jugular vein.
May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive, attitude my mind may fall into as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer?
Then the Ermine and the Stoat are the same creature?
None came; the Stoat had missed a turn in the winding tunnel, and the flying Hackees reached the hollow tree in safety.
But the Stoat passed by him as if he were not there, and Phil listened with dread for the strangled cry which would mean that one of the Hackees had met his doom.
The whole day wore away, and he saw no one, heard nothing, had no visitant except the black stoat which flitted across the path, and the grey thrushes which flew by on their autumn flights towards lower ground.
Then I must follow up the hare, of course, and I thrust the long body of the stoat through my girdle, so that its head hung one way and its tail the other, and took up the trail of the hare where my prey had left it.
Accounts of such behavior are on record for the English stoat (ermine).
There is nothing of any use to the stoat in the second and third degrees of cock-pheasant--no health to the stoat, you understand.
It was an ermine, a stoat in winter dress, white as driven snow.
And the stoat found this out, too, and he would have shifted his hold to the bird's body like a flash, if he had been given a chance, but he never was.
If you'd followed the other way, you might have seen where that stoat chased his victim into its burrow, and you might have seen where he came out again alone, after his feed underground.
He was probably a stoat on the track of a jack-rabbit.
The stoat or ermine is as destructive to covert game as the animals just mentioned.
As an instance of the first, we have the change from dark brown to purely white of the stoat or ermine; of the second, the indigenous red grouse of the British Isles is an example.
Against the walls are cases of stuffed birds, with a red squirrel or a white stoat to relieve the feathers.
Also, we have the stoat or ermine, which even with us is white in winter, brown in summer; but the tip of the tail is always black.
The stoat progresses by a series of short quick leaps, which enable it to cover the ground more quickly than could possibly be imagined for so small an animal.
One stoat has been known to destroy as many as forty fowls in a single night.
Indeed, the famous ermine fur which we value so highly, and which even kings wear when they put on their robes of state, is nothing but the coat of the stoat in its winter dress.
In poultry-yards the stoat is sometimes terribly mischievous.
The stoatpreys upon rather larger animals than do other weasels, and many a hare and rabbit falls victim to its sharp little fangs.
Ailsa picked up the bleeding fledgling that the stoat had been carrying away in its teeth.
If you help not quickly, their little fledglings will be eaten up by a thieving stoatthat has but a few moments ago entered their nest.
The stoat must live by the food that the great God gives it, and the birds must die when their time comes.
This man Roderic, is he not even as the stoatthat harried the nest?
But the stoat also slew the fledgling as well as the parent bird.
It was a stoat that harried an ouzel's nest and slew the birds," replied Kenric.
The skin of the stoat is highly prized by the Tibetans, who say that it has the property of restoring faded turquoises to their former beauty.
He was as furious and as helpless as the stoat had been.
He remembered a poor stoat which, startled out of its sleep, had turned and bitten one of the iron wheels of the machine, and the wheel had gone over it and crushed it into a mass of blood and fur.
Canis lagopus), in thestoat and ermine, and among birds, in the ptarmigan, and some other species of Lagopus.
That this was Stoat he had no doubt whatever, and now, for the first time, he realized the difficulties of his task--an unskilled amateur attempting to shadow one of the best professional burglars in New York.
Then, with a movement quicker than thought, which caught Stoat wholly off his guard, he threw himself across the burglar's body, with one hand over his mouth and with the other gripping his nostrils in an iron clasp.
They must have found Stoat with the watch in his pocket, and that is proof positive that he tried to escape with it and failed.
This accomplished, he replaced the watch in the pocket of the injured man, and bending over him with the hope that Stoat was either dead or dying, he asked, "How do you feel?
Stoat must get the watch, copy the cypher, and then return it again before it's missed.
He had returned from the pursuit of Stoat to find that Helen had summoned Doctor Rowland, the local physician, and had herself superintended the removal of Atherton's body to the room left vacant by Bellingham.
What could be easier than for Atherton to leave a window open, so that Stoat could slip into the house, make his way into Hamilton's bedroom, and get possession of the watch?
And at the sound of his voice Stoat turned and staggered toward them.
Here at last was the climax of their adventure; if Stoat lived up to his reputation, success was almost within their grasp.
Yet partnership with Stoat was not an attractive prospect.
I have reasons to believe that the Irish Stoatcame from the Arctic Regions as a northern migrant, but that the English Stoat, on the other hand, reached England with the Siberian fauna from the east.
The Irish Stoat distinct from the British species, "Zoologist," 1895.
The Irish form of theStoat differs so much from the English, that Messrs.
Magazine of Natural History") says that the Stoat is more timid than the weasel, and that it does not change its colour as in the more northern parts of the world.
I know whether he means to include any part of England in the more northern parts of the world, but I do know that the Stoat is white in the winter in Yorkshire, as I have caught and still more frequently seen specimens of this colour.
I took up the rat, and the Stoat put its head out of the wall, spitting and chattering with every appearance of the most lively indignation against me for having so unjustly robbed it of a lawful prize.
Then she came to a heap of stones, and there stood a stoat and peeped out.
Just as they reached the hedge the rabbit caught up with its enemy, but the stoat hid in the hedge for a few seconds, and then ran along it swiftly, escaping the rabbit's notice for a few minutes.
Not long ago a gentleman heard of a remarkable fight between a stoat and a rabbit; he gives an account of it in the Field newspaper.
Illustration: "The rabbit bit the stoat in the most infuriated manner.
Then the head of the stoat appeared, but was instantly drawn back as a dark shadow fell on the snow.
Abrupt as was her turning movement each stoat kept its place as though it were part of a snake, which in truth the long file closely resembled.
Thus the pursuit came to an end, but not the incident, for from his vantage ground the stoat chattered insults at the bird as she flew back to the tree to await the appearance of the other stoat.
An hour, two hours passed, then the bigger stoat cautiously raised his head to reconnoitre, and on seeing that the kite was still there, as cautiously withdrew it, hoping thus to escape her attention.
As gladly as ever we slew stoat or wild-cat,' cried the other, slipping under the waggon.
Dick was haled to Ilchester Gaol, and hung up after the assizes like a stoat on a gamekeeper's door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
