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  • The Muskrat is an attorney and writes a humor blog.

    I NEED YOUR OPINIONS! What should the future of Johnny B. look like? | Johnny B. Truant 2009

  • In Jingle Dancer, Jenna wishes to be a jingle dancer at the upcoming powwow and finds a way to make that wish a reality; in Muskrat Will Be Swimming, Jeannie is teased by others, then finds strength in her heritage when her grandfather tells her about his own childhood and shares a traditional story.

    Jingle Dancer 2006

  • Thomas Hutter's daughter -- Thomas Hutter, whom you called the Muskrat; though he was no muskrat, but a man like yourselves -- he lived in a house on the water, and that was enough for you. "

    The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • As a favored haunt of muskrats, it was once called Muskrat Cove, and now Blackbird Bay.

    James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912

  • As a favored haunt of muskrats, it was once called Muskrat Cove, and now Blackbird Bay.

    James Fenimore Cooper 1901

  • On the direct route between this pond and the lake, known as the Muskrat Portage road, the course undoubtedly traversed by Champlain, there was found in 1867, in the, township of Ross, an astrolabe, an instrument used in taking latitudes, on which is the date, 1603.

    Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 Samuel de Champlain 1601

  • Gaia is part of a shadowy Dutch-based organization called Muskrat Love

    unknown title 2009

  • It was not so much kindness of heart as respect for his own dignity which made Viggo refrain from calling Marcus a "Muskrat" or a "Smelling-Bottle."

    Boyhood in Norway 1892

  • He never loved to be called a "Muskrat," though he answered to the name mechanically.

    Boyhood in Norway 1892

  • He never loved to be called a "Muskrat," though he answered to the name mechanically.

    Boyhood in Norway Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

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