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Andrews Eliza Frances - The War-time Journal Of A Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
... and Bragg might well be called the ugliest. I saw him at Mrs. Vickers's, where he is staying, and he looks like an old porcupine. I never was a special admirer of his, though it would Page 207 be a good thing if some of his stringent views about discipline ...
Anonymous - Raven, The Tlingit Creation Story
[ NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE LITERATURES]
... to see her." That is why salmon run up thc creeks. After this he went into the woods and set out to make the porcupine. For quills he took pieces of yellow cedar bark, which he set all the way up and down its back so that bears would be ...
Anonymous - Raven, The Tlingit Creation Story
[ NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE LITERATURES]
... up and down its back so that bears would be afraid of it. This is why bears never eat porcupines. He said to the porcupine, "Whenever anyone comes near you, throw your tail about." This is why people are afraid of it when it does so. Now Raven went off ...
Aristotle - History Of Animals
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... she-bear has reared her young, she comes out of her winter lair in the third month, when it is already spring. The female porcupine, by the way, hibernates and goes with young the same number of days as the she-bear, and in all respects as to parturition resembles ...
Aristotle - History Of Animals
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... the starling hide; and of birds with crooked talons the kite and the owl hide for a few days. 17 Of viviparous quadrupeds the porcupine and the bear retire into concealment. The fact that the bear hides is well established, but there are doubts as to its motive for so ...
Aristotle - History Of Animals
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... avers, but off their body as a kind of tree-bark, like the creatures that shoot out with their hair, as for instance the porcupine. The creature can attack animals larger than itself, and enwrap them with its threads: in other words, it will attack a small lizard, run round ...
Bailey Aldrich Thomas - Ponkapog Papers
[ FICTION]
... of venerable colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired upon half pay. WHETHER or not the fretful porcupine rolls itself into a ball is a subject over which my friend John Burroughs and several brother naturalists have lately become as heated as if ...
Bailey Aldrich Thomas - Ponkapog Papers
[ FICTION]
... of quills, and he ought to have some concrete ideas on the subject. We two, then, are prepared to testify that the porcupine in its moments of relaxation occasionally contracts itself into what might be taken for a ball by persons not too difficult to please in the ...
Balzac Honoré De - Unconscious Comedians
[ FRENCH FICTION]
... able to win your lawsuit. But it is quite impossible to present you anywhere with that mop of Pyrenean hair; you look like a porcupine; and therefore we''ll take you close by, Place de la Bourse, to Marius, another of our comedians--" "Who is he?" "I''ll tell you his tale," ...
Baum Frank L. - The Magic Of Oz
[ FICTION]
... she knocked him over with one powerful blow and then ran away to escape Chipo's sharp tusks. In the chase that followed a giant porcupine stuck fifty sharp quills into the Boar and a chimpanzee in a tree threw a cocoanut at the porcupine that jammed its head into its ...
Baum Frank L. - The Magic Of Oz
[ FICTION]
... chase that followed a giant porcupine stuck fifty sharp quills into the Boar and a chimpanzee in a tree threw a cocoanut at the porcupine that jammed its head into its body. All this was against the Laws of the Forest, and when the excitement was over, Gugu the Leopard ...

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