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He watched it closely as he went, and the occasional shrill spurt of a bird betrayed movement in the covert it might be of a weasel, a fox, or a man. The morning was chill and misty, the turf sodden and shining. At one spot the gorse marched in close-ranked upon the green until only a passage of some thirty yards was left.
Olga Dmitrievna, too, had small predatory-looking features, but more expressive and bolder than her mother's; she was not a weasel, but a beast on a bigger scale!
And then he thought, "What shall I do?" and he remembered the King her father was a priest, so he went into the temple and sacrificed a weasel and a hare. Presently the news got about; and the two lads and the first King were called into the presence of the King who was a priest, where he sat upon the high seat. "Little I reck of gear," said the King who was a priest, "and little of power.
He brought up his other foot, he sniffed the breath came warm from the man's half-open lips he adventured the risk, and placed his paw on the keeper's neck. Instantly as if he had received an electric shock the keeper started to his knees, shuddering; the weasel dropped from his neck upon the ground, the crow hastened back to the ash.
The younger man looked at his friend with mingled admiration and impatience in his eyes. "Lookee here, John, you're far too easy. You take a warning in time, and don't let that sneak get his claws any further into your wool than you can help. I'd shut off every bit of dealings with him. He's as sharp as a weasel. Don't you forget that he's got a hold on you already." "Tuts! That's nothing.
Pop-Goes, the weasel, didn't get Uncle Wiggily after all, and if the pepper caster doesn't throw dust in the potato's eyes, and make it sneeze at the rag doll, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and Simple Simon. "There!" exclaimed Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, who, with Uncle Wiggily Longears, the rabbit gentleman, was visiting at the Littletail rabbit burrow one day.
As they sat there, Weasel Heart chanced to look down into the water and saw something. He said to his comrade, "Friend, do you not see something down there where the water goes around?" Fisher said, "No; I see nothing except buffalo," for he was looking across the river to the other side, and not down into the water. "No," said Weasel Heart; "I do not mean over there on the prairie.
Then amidst a loud hooting, Hall took his weapons and without a word slunk into the boat of the Raven that lay astern, and rowed ashore; nor did Eric see his face for many months. "Thou hast done foolishly, lord, to let that weasel go," said Skallagrim, "for he will live to nip thy hand." "For good or evil, he is gone," said Eric, "and now I am worn out and desire to sleep."
Next the weasel, having failed to present himself when summoned by the woodpecker, was attainted as contumacious, and sentenced, with the entire approval of the assembly, to lose all his dignities and estates; his woods, parks, forests, and all his property were escheated to the Crown, and were by the king handed over to his faithful follower Sec.
But what a mess! cherchez la femme!" "That we must do," laughed Merton. "The mosquitoes illustrate the proverb: only the females bite. Good, that, isn't it? But what next? I interrupted you. You are out of it, but where do I come in? What about Porthos and that little red weasel Aramis?" "And D'Artagnan?" I laughed. "If you like, Greville. You are complimentary. Was that all?" "No.
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