varment

• “The wilderness had always been his dwelling – in the land he had left, his early days had been passed in hunting the red deer or the red man on the Prairie fields – there, with the true spirit of the old American, he had learned to treat the Indian as "varment," although a kindlier feeling was awakened towards them in this country, where white as well as red were recipients of England's bounty, and many a tale of wild pathos or dark horror has he told of the experience of his youth with the people of the wild.”

  Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America

• “In that case, symbolically speaking, maybe this varment should win this stupid competition.”

  DeLay makes dancing debut

• “The vines and briars was so thick that I would sometimes have to get down and crawl like a varment to get through it all; and a vine had, as I supposed, caught in the handle and pulled it out.”

  Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools

• “The poor beasts have smoked for it: rabbit me, but I’d rather ride forty miles after a fox than ten with such varment.”

  Act the Fifth

• “I had the prettiest pa'sel you most ever seed, till the varment took to killin ”

  Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

• “The hawk catched a powerful sight of them; and then the varment took to 'em, and nat'ly took 'em fore and aft, bodily, till they left most none at all hardly.”

  Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

• “Brer Fox ax w'at he mus 'do den, en Brer Rabbit say he mus' go down by de spring, en w'en de creeturs come ter de spring fer ter git dey water, he mus 'jump out at um, en den atter dat he mus' waller lak he one er dem ar kinder varment w'at got bugs on um.”

  Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

• “Which be the young varment as said a F was a Q?" she rather unfairly inquired.”

  Jan of the Windmill

• “I was hunted down like a wild varment, and in this hunt every little newspaper in the district, and every little pinhook lawyer was engaged.”

  David Crockett

• “Well, captin, did ever you see such a clumsy varment in all your born days?”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852

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