badger

• And that badger is a talking badger, a dying badger, a rather bossy creature who was "expecting someone rather taller." —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
• "And so I don't see how I'll ever be a merit-badger," he told Mr. Perkins wistfully, when he had gone through the list of the A's Sometimes of late, in Johnnie's opinion, the scout leader had seemed to be as absentminded as Cis; and now he was evidently not thinking of the matter in hand, for he asked a question which appeared to have nothing whatever to do with merit badges. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
• It is about the size of the true badger, and ordinarily lives on small game, as badgers do; but, in addition to this, it is fond of varying its diet with a little honey. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• She is the wonder of all the land animals--being of the size of a badger, and near that colour. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• This is a burrowing creature about the size of a badger, and of equally voracious habits In some places it proves extremely destructive to the poultry of the settler, though it will also eat carcass, or dead fish--in short, anything In a state of captivity it will not submit to be tamed, biting everything that comes near it, at the same time uttering a sort of yelling growl. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys

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