pole-cat

The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog were observed.

Les Miserables 2008

He had the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters.

Les Miserables 2008

But the pole-cat and the ice-bears of the north have their mates.

The Ladybird 2003

The wizard was now dead, the pole-cat put on human shape, and the youth afterwards married the girl, and from that time forward let all his magic arts alone.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

I remember one mornin 'he come to my shanty, and a hungrier, starveder, wild-eyed feller ye never seed in yer born days than him; but shoot me fer a pole-cat if he didn't come back a smilin'.

Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

This family includes the weasel (its smallest member), the stoat, the ferret, the pole-cat, the marten, and the otter (its largest member).

Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Anonymous

We must o 'walked fer well nigh onto three weeks, an' all we ever seed in all that time was a pole-cat -- an 'we wished we hadn't o' seed him, fer Ben had t 'bury every livin' last stitch o 'his duds an' walk home in his bare hide.

Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

Northerner would prefer sitting down with a pole-cat -- he would rather pluck a living coal from the fire than grasp the hand of the worthiest negro that ever stepped.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Dad shouted down to him to be quiet, supposing he had smelled a coyote or a pole-cat outside.

Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

"Shoot me for a pole-cat, as Dad would say," he remarked half-aloud, as he spat on his hands and raised the heavy ax over his head.

Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley