But nothing was seen of the Wolverene as time went on, and Father Beaver became quite gay.
Father Beaver was the last to cross; as he dived from the bank there was a stealthy tread among the rushes, and the gleaming eyes of the Wolverenefollowed him through the water.
The night before, it seemed, almost immediately after Phil had left them, the Wolverene had made an unexpected attack.
So the Wolverene had been killed himself, instead of killing the Beavers, and for the present at least they would be safe.
That Wolverene will never try to rob me of my Hares again!
The Wolverene left off his playful patting of the branches and showed his teeth in an ugly smile.
The Wolverene is not our worst enemy," he said slowly.
But for her we should be at the mercy of the Wolverene all through the winter, when he is fierce with hunger, and very strong.
Nowhere along the river banks were more contented creatures than they; and many a timid wood thing, unknown to them, shared their thanksgiving that the Wolverene was dead.
It was some days before the busy little animals began their work again, for they knew that the Wolverene might still be on the watch for them, and have crossed the river himself.
The wolverene is the fur-trapper's greatest foe, and, as may be supposed, he has no mercy shown him.
Just as he got up, a fine fat wolverene jumped out, but was immediately shot down.
The Indian form of Wolverene is a slighter and much smaller animal, with a still more weasel-like appearance.
In the morning the wolverene stated he would return for the meat which he had stored away the previous day.
The wolf did so, but made the load so large and long that the wolverenecould not see the rear end of the sled.
The wolverene answered: "I will make your eyes as good as mine if you will gather a lot of cranberries while I prepare a sweat house.
The wolverene was glad to rest, but sat down and began to look ahead in the distance for the returning hunters.
The wolverene continued to scream: "Come here, sister, our father has sent me to look for you.
The wolverene selected a stone having a sharp edge, which she concealed under the moss in the sweat house, while she procured a larger stone for the pillow.
He asked for a blanket, but one of the wolves placed his own bushy tail on the body of the wolverene to keep him warm.
The wolverene screamed, "Hold your tongue, you red-eyed fowl.
Creation of people by the wolverene and the muskrat.
A wolverenewas out walking on the hillside and came upon a large rock.
The animals then started off, the young ones taking the lead while the four old ones and the wolverene followed leisurely behind.
The wolves then sent the wolverene for dry brush, while they gathered green branches for the tent floor.
The wolverene ran after the loon but the loon dived under the water and came up a distance off and cried out, "A ho ho ho ho ho ho!
The wolverene took it up and told her she had not put it together properly and struck her on the head and knocked her flying into the water.
The wolverene told her that she could live on the land as well as in the water.
Upon the water sedge he finds subsistence; but his natural enemy, the wolverene (Gulo luscus), skulks in the same neighbourhood.
Now the wolverene enters the trap from behind, tears the back out of it before touching the bait, and thus avoids the falling log!
There are found the valuable beaver, and the wolverenethat preys upon it.
The wolverene kills many of the foxes while young, and sometimes on finding their burrow, widens it with his strong claws, and eats the whole family in their nests.
Notwithstanding, the wolverene will eat them too, whenever he can get his claws upon them; but as they are much swifter than he, this seldom happens.
It is supposed that both these names are corruptions of the Cree word okee-coo-haw-gew (the name of the wolverene among the Indians of that tribe).
To this Norman also objected, saying that the wolverene could pull off any stones they were able to pile upon them--as this creature in its fore-legs possesses more than the strength of a man.
The wolves had seen the wolverene as they approached the thicket, and that accounted for their strange behaviour in the pursuit.
The wolverene lives in clefts of rock, or in hollow trees, where such are to be found; but he is equally an inhabitant of the forest and the prairie.
The Canadian voyageurs call the wolverene "carcajou;" while among the Orkney and Scotch servants of the Hudson's Bay Company he is oftener known as the "quickhatch.
To have hung them on the trees, would have put them out of the reach of both wolves and foxes; but the lynx and wolverene are both tree-climbers, and could easily have got at them there.
These creatures are as great cowards as they are tyrants, and their dread of a wolverene is equal to that with which they themselves often inspire the wounded deer.
A heavy plash followed, and for some seconds both wapiti and wolverenewere lost under the water.
The wolverene did not need that faint, almost invisible wisp of vapour from the air-holes to tell him there were beavers below.
The wolverene itself, however, by no means shares this general prejudice.
The wolverene is a big cousin to the weasel, and also to the skunk.
Then his quick eye, keener in discrimination than that of any wolf, detected the sturdy figure of a large wolverene making its way from tree to tree at a safe distance above the snow, intent upon the wolves.
About three miles back from the cabin, on a dry knoll in the heart of a tangled swamp, the old wolverene dug herself a commodious and secret burrow.
No matter how pinched and racked by famine they may be, not one of them will touch a morsel of meat which a wolverene has defiled ever so slightly.
Wolverene picked himself up and saw that he had no fur at all.
The wolverene is now seldom, if ever, reported from the country south of the Park, and must be considered one of the rarest of animals within its borders.
They were soon under the very branch, and I saw the wolverene with his legs erected and ears set for the spring.
In a short time the wolverene had reached the fork of one of these; and, crawling out upon it, he laid himself flat along the branch and looked downward.
As I was watching them, all at once I heard a rustling among the fallen leaves near the dam; and on looking I perceived the wolverene making all the haste he could toward the breastwork.
There are found the valuable beaver and the wolverene that preys upon it.
He is supposed to be identical with the wolverene of North America; and if this be so, his range extends all round the Arctic zone of the globe: since the wolverene is found throughout the whole extent of the Hudson's Bay territory.
The glutton and wolverene are, in fact, very like the common badger in their habits; except that being much larger and stronger animals, they prey upon larger game.
Their game is usually the smaller quadrupeds; and in the fur countries no animal is a greater pest to the trapper than the wolverene or glutton.
The fur of the wolverene is one of the staple articles of trade of the Hudson's Bay Company; though it is more prized among the Russians than with us--who esteem it in value as next to the ermine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wolverene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
