Word: stoat
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Twilly Spree has problems managing his anger--he blew up his uncle's bank--and he's hot on the trail of Palmer Stoat, a lugubrious Florida lobbyist who made the mistake of littering in Spree's presence. Throw in a spineless Governor, a sleazy real estate deal, a beautiful but dissatisfied young wife (that would be Mrs. Palmer Stoat), a thug named Mr. Gash and the eponymous ill canine, and you've got the ingredients for a hilarious novel that moves as quickly as untouched Florida shoreline is vanishing. Hiaasen's brand of storytelling--a blend of social satire...
...industrious Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are pelt-deep fictions; in the real world, male rabbits are lallygagging drones. The does, contrary to those powder puffs in Watership Down, dig the burrows, run the homes and defend their young with Amazonian ferocity against such formidable enemies as the ferret, stoat and weasel...
...hanging from the anterior, the front end of the bee, is a drop of honey, that also is reflected in the blossom. Now, reflected in the honey is an eagle, and in the mouth of the eagle is a ferret, and in the mouth of the ferret is a stoat, and in the mouth of the stoat is a shrew, and in the mouth of the shrew is a marble, and on the outside of the marble is an American flag, for example, and in each one of the 48 stars of the flag-it's an old marble...
...soliciting, contempt, vagrancy. They can prove you without means of support, unborn or dead. They can bury you in unconsecrated ground. You have to fly very hard to keep in the sun." Beamish finally demoted him with the memorable words: "You write doggerel and have been interfering with Mrs. Stoat." (Mrs. Stoat was a flirtatious taxation official...
...startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back on his farm, with a pitchfork and a stave or two handy, just in case...