stoat

• In a few moments it had seized the wretched stoat, and though the latter struggled hard for its life, all was in vain. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• The weasel is much smaller than the stoat, and you can tell it at once by its tail, which is entirely red; that of the stoat has a black tip. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
• The stoat--a little devil with all its hair, from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, standing at end--was at about two yards distance from them, working round and round to have an opportunity to spring upon the leveret, which was the object of its attack. —  Olla Podrida
• This family includes the weasel (its smallest member), the stoat, the ferret, the pole-cat, the marten, and the otter (its largest member). —  Chatterbox Stories of Natural History
• Something was very wrong indeed with the stoat--he never even bared his teeth Next, a flurried brood of nestling partridges, flattened to earth, and piping dismally to one another. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character

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