They enjoyed the running and chasing as much as we did, but when it came to broken ribs and sore heads, it was another matter, Then the porcupines bothered them.

A deer sprang out of the thicket and a badger crawled out of its hole, a stag appeared in the road, and a peacock spread its fan-shaped tail on the grassand after he had slain them all, other deer, other stags, other badgers, other peacocks, and jays, blackbirds, foxes, porcupines, polecats, and lynxes, appeared; in fact, a host of beasts that grew more and more numerous with every step he took.

Julian walked as slowly as possible, so as not to irritate them, while in the depth of bushes he could distinguish porcupines, foxes, vipers, jackals, and bears.

There are many porcupines in this country, which are hunted by dogs; and these animals, contracting themselves with great fury, cast their sharp quills at the men and dogs, and often wound them.

There was not even the prowling of night animals to vex the rest of Mrs. Maloney; for in previous camps it had often been her peculiar affliction that she heard the porcupines scratching against the canvas, or the squirrels dropping fir-cones in the early morning with a sound of miniature thunder upon the roof of her tent.

In our Canadian camps the bears were for ever grunting about among the provision bags at night, porcupines scratching unceasingly, and chipmunks scuttling over everything.

The fable is of certain porcupines, who huddled together for warmth on a cold day; but as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse.

In the same way, the need of society drives the human porcupines togetheronly to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature.

A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse.

In the same way the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature.

My porcupines of spite, make roome I say, that I may salute my brave Prince: and is Prince Phylaster at liberty?

I. [Footnote 1: They are all weapon, and they dart Like Porcupines from every Part.

But the most elaborately wrought part of the devices consisted of dyed porcupines' quills, arranged as a kind of aboriginal mosaic.

Buffaloes, leopards, tigers, antelopes, porcupines, the great ant-eater, divers species of monkeys, and numerous other animals are found, besides many varieties of birds.

The porcupines, in the moulting season, cast their quills in the fields, and dig themselves holes under the palm trees.

Prickly pesky porcupines.

Too much salt and pepper: two porcupines with prickly spines who make you laugh and think.

KERRY, VIRGINIA CAMPBELL. Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo. SEE CAMPBELL, SAM. <pb id='363.png' /> Too much salt and pepper: two porcupines with prickly spines who make you laugh and think.

Prickly pesky porcupines.

Too much salt and pepper: two porcupines with prickly spines who make you laugh and think.

KERRY, VIRGINIA CAMPBELL. Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo. SEE CAMPBELL, SAM. <pb id='363.png' /> Too much salt and pepper: two porcupines with prickly spines who make you laugh and think.

It was not the skeleton of the whale that hung overhead, with its ample but ungenial smile; it was not the bandy-legged skeleton of the rachitic camel, nor that of the aurochs, nor those of the apes and jackals and porcupines in the smaller glass case; nor the skulls that grinned from the case at the end of the room.

True, the soul may at last so far prevail as to make itself felt even in the stomach; and the true gentleman could as soon relish a lunch of porcupines' quills as a dinner basely obtained, though it were of nightingales' tongues.

Some are spherical, like rolled-up porcupines, crouching in rock hollows beneath a mist of gray lances, unmoved by the wildest winds.

Sea urchins, those porcupines of the deep, with long, prickly spines, looking like a lady's pincushion, were in profusion, and clung tenaciously to every rock.