ermine

• A man who, in Scott's own words, died “a victim to a hellishly false story, or rather, I should say, to the sensibility of his own nature, which could not endure even the shadow of reproach,—like the ermine, which is said to pine if its fur is soiled,” was not the man to father a puff, even by his dearest friend, on that friend's own creations. —  Sir Walter Scott
• Mind you don't laugh, or she will slice you in two with her knife and feed you to my ermine which is in yon little house outside Before long a woman entered carrying an oblong chopping-bowl in which lay her chopping-knife. —  A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
• A man who, in Scott's own words, died "a victim to a hellishly false story, or rather, I should say, to the sensibility of his own nature, which could not endure even the shadow of reproach,--like the ermine, which is said to pine if its fur is soiled," was not the man to father a puff, even by his dearest friend, on that friend's own creations. —  Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
• The mountain peak hooded in snow-ermine, and the gray-white clouds floating all around me; and it was so very still; my voice, the only sound to be heard, and that was strange and muffled. —  Holiday Stories for Young People
• I did not recognize it until it was out of sight, but I should not have shot it in any case, for the ermine is a very rare occurrence in the south of England. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

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