lemming

• I will not, unlike our lemming-like Republicans, follow a failed leader off a cliff and complain years later about HOW DAMN WET WE ARE NOW. —  Badger Herald: News Updates
• In most years you may wander about the country for weeks and never see a lemming, but occasionally there comes what is called a "lemming-year," when more young lemmings are born than usual, and then the trouble begins. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
• On Spitzbergen the snowy owl is very rare; but on Novaya Zemlya and the North coast of Asia--where the lemming, which is wanting on Spitzbergen, occurs in great crowds--it is common. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• As at most places where the lemming is common the weasel (_Mustela vulgaris_, Briss.) —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• We get the reindeer and the mammoth side by side with the hippopotamus and the hyena; we find the chilly cave bear and the Norway lemming, the musk sheep and the Arctic fox in the same deposits with the lion and the lynx, the leopard and the rhinoceros. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

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