wood-rat

Then the drifting shadow of a huge butterfly attracted his attention, and soon he was nosing through the jungle on the trail of a wood-rat.

CHAPTER XXIII 2010

Forgotten was the stale wood-rat as he followed the new trail.

CHAPTER XXIII 2010

So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.

CHAPTER XXIII 2010

At that day there existed in Oregon in vast numbers a species of wood-rat, and our inspection of the graveyard showed that the canoes were thickly infested with them.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

I couldn't tell, riding in the opposite lane, whether that was a scrap of squirrel or maybe a weasel or wood-rat.

Damp jhetley 2008

Disgusting indeed would this delicacy of the hunter be, were the wood-rat of the Southwest anything like his various Eastern representatives and cogeners; but he is not.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

Disgusting indeed would this delicacy of the hunter be, were the wood-rat of the Southwest anything like his various Eastern representatives and cogeners; but he is not.

Breakfast on the Trail with Frank Hamilton Cushing 2006

At that day there existed in Oregon in vast numbers a species of wood-rat, and our inspection of the graveyard showed that the canoes were thickly infested with them.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.

Chapter 23 1917

Then the drifting shadow of a huge butterfly attracted his attention, and soon he was nosing through the jungle on the trail of a wood-rat.

Chapter 23 1917