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  • How much wood could a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck had it's soul eaten by Cthulhu?

    Rapid Fire Round Questions 2007

  • Carlitos had scarcely thrown his verbal bomb when Tom Hotchkiss slid out of his seat and dived into the thicket beside the narrow road like a wood-chuck into its hole.

    The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

  • The life of every dog in the settlement, if bigger than a wood-chuck, hung by a thread, which might, it seemed, at any moment turn into a halter.

    Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • The next day Black Bruin again visited the trap, but his suspicions were still keen and as he had killed a wood-chuck that morning, his appetite was not ravenous, so he again left the bait untasted.

    Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901

  • A moment's examination proved to them that this was nothing less than a sea-otter cub, a small animal not much larger than a wood-chuck, but with a long, pointed tail, and covered with short, soft fur.

    The Young Alaskans Emerson Hough 1890

  • But it is like enough that he trapped a wood-chuck now and then, or caught a white-fish with the rest.

    Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889

  • He could imitate their peculiar "whistle" quite cleverly, and having observed that when one wood-chuck whistles, all the others within hearing are apt to exhibit some little curiosity as to what is going on, he turned the circumstance to account.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • The wood-chuck, although so dreadfully wounded and with its eyes destroyed by the powder, had yet, after several days, mustered sufficient strength to come out and feed.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • I am keenly aware that to write anything in defense of the wood-chuck will prove unpopular with farmers and farmers 'boys.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • I think he felt conscience-smitten, and I never knew him to attempt to shoot a wood-chuck in that way afterwards.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

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