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Data on captive musk deer tend to be regarded as a state secret, thus even Chinese surveys have difficulty establishing exactly what goes on at musk-deer farms.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Data on captive musk deer tend to be regarded as a state secret, thus even Chinese surveys have difficulty establishing exactly what goes on at musk-deer farms.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Data on captive musk deer tend to be regarded as a state secret, thus even Chinese surveys have difficulty establishing exactly what goes on at musk-deer farms.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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I run as a musk-deer runs in the shadow of the forest mad with his own perfume.
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But that renegade, with a new Mannlicher rifle and two hundred cartridges, is elsewhere, shooting musk-deer for the market, and Yankling Sahib will learn next season how very ill he has been.
Kim 2003
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It seems likely that if formal, self-sufficient, musk-deer farming projects can be established elsewhere, with safeguards to minimize poaching, a wider trade would be officially sanctioned.
26 Mouse Deer 1991
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It was a scent bag of the musk-deer from which the fragrance of the love of God was perceived.
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The young man went to work with a satisfaction and alacrity he had never before experienced; and the image of Beatrice, passing into his soul, to be thence reflected, as from one mirror upon another, on the canvass, shed the light of Paradise over his fancy -- as the musk-deer perfumes the thicket in which it slumbers.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number Various
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He looked down into the dying eyes of a little musk-deer.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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Nay, if you will have the kindness to notice, Nature has not gifted my lady musk-deer with the personal peculiarity by which her lord is so widely known.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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