zorillo

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We were riding quickly across these ugly marshy wastes, when a curious animal crossed our path, a _zorillo_, or _epatl_, as the Indians call it, and which Bouffon mentions under the generic name of _mouffêtes_.

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  • RESTClient like so: def zorillo = new RESTClient ( "http://acme. zorrillo.com/") —  The Disco Blog
  • HTTP GET like so: def res = zorillo. get (path: "widget/1010081127") —  The Disco Blog
  • While they were chasing the zorillo, and we had rode a little way off, that we might not be accidentally shot in the fog, an immense wolf came looming by in the mist, with its stealthy gallop, close to our horses, causing us to shout for the sportsmen; but our numbers frightened it; besides which, it had but just breakfasted on a mule belonging to the hacienda, as we were told by the son of the proprietress of El Pilar, who, hearing all this distant firing, had ridden out to inquire into its cause, supposing that we might have lost our way in the fog, and were firing signals of distress We continued our journey across these plains for about three leagues, when the sun rose and scattered the mist; and after crossing a river, we entered the woods and rode between the shadows of the trees, through lovely forest scenery, interspersed with dells and plains and sparkling rivulets. —  Life in Mexico
  • Beasts of prey, ten kinds; among them one of the mephitic class, known to the natives by the name of _zorillo_, or _añash_; an otter (_Lutra chilensis_, Ben.); a fox (_Canis azaræ_, Pr. Max.), which abounds in the cotton plantations in the neighborhood of Lima and throughout all the —  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
  • We were riding quickly across these ugly marshy wastes, when a curious animal crossed our path, a _zorillo_, or _epatl_, as the Indians call it, and which Bouffon mentions under the generic name of _mouffêtes_. —  Life in Mexico
 

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