Word: weaselers
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...young chicks separated from their mother ("Pieep-pieep-pieep") and their terror trills-a high-pitched "Trr-trr." Both hens and roosters make "frightened" cackles when first they sense danger. After the danger passes, their cackling is full-throated and rhythmical, as if they had triumphed over a weasel...
...says he wants to rent a cottage like hers, a solitary house by the sea. She offers him supper and a bed for the night. He accepts with apparent gratitude, but when she closes her bedroom door he goes gliding silently from room to room like a weasel on the lurk. The next morning, with many thanks for her hospitality, he leaves to catch a bus, but several hours later he is back. "Missed it," he says with an ingenuous smile. He stays another night, and on the third day, when they go swimming, he makes love...
...Howells risked no such effects, and his novels unrolled with a tameness that even admiring contemporaries could not explain away. Henry Adams, writing a delicately equivocal notice of an early Howells novel (one of the pleasures of a collection of criticism is seeing eminent men of the past weasel out of tight places as shamelessly as critics of today), hints at torpor by remarking that the author must certainly have had feminine help in constructing so dainty a work. An anonymous English critic finds "a gentle current of interest" running through Howells' work, although he admits to an uncontrollable...
Snopeses of San Lio. Though she acquires titles, Ippolita stems from a clan that was born below the stairs in other people's manors. The Raugeos are Italian versions of Faulkner's wily Snopeses, who grab, trick and weasel their way into the landed gentry. Befriending a Raugeo is as safe as petting a crocodile. Raised to overseer by a count, Ippolita's greatgrandfather snaps up all the nobleman's holdings to make the Raugeos the richest, and the meanest, landowners in the town of San Lio. He passes on the family faith: the land...
...member of the musteline family (mink, marten, mongoose, badger, weasel, skunk), the otter is essentially "a big water weasel"-most northern breeds reach the size of a spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even...