hedge-hog

The hedge-hog, so well secured against all assaults by his prickly hide, and the porcupine with his missile quills, would be then considered as creatures of no small elegance.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

And now he is but very middling; sits grinning like a man in straw; curses and swears, and is confounded gloomy; and creeps into holes and corners, like an old hedge-hog hunted for his grease.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

A large hedge-hog was found here, which the Tekayrne skinned, and ate in the evening.

Travels in Nubia 2004

The man who rises in the morning, with his feelings all bristling like the quills of a hedge-hog, simply needs to be knocked down.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

She noted the beauty of the foliage against the moon, heard the swift scurry of a frightened rabbit and the faint snort of a hedge-hog on the prowl for food.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

About the middle of the last century any person killing a hedge-hog in Therfield and taking it to the

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

The price after this went down to 2d. for a hedge-hog and

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

The hedge-hog, so well secured against all assaults by his prickly hide, and the porcupine with his missile quills, would be then considered as creatures of no small elegance.

Fitness not the Cause of Beauty 1909

A thrush sang in a tree and a little hedge-hog crossed the stony path in front of him with awkward steps.

Penguin Island 1909

Elsa, he decided, was a good girl in a hedge-hog environment of unbelievable traits, of warring contrasts.

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906