 | Francis Parkman - 1875 - 406 pages
...as they are always bold when in the neighborhood of buffalo, they would approach to look at me, gaze intently with their great round eyes, then suddenly...supplicating attitude, and yelping away most vehemently, whisking his little tail with every squeaking cry he uttered. Prairie-dogs are not fastidious in their... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1885 - 406 pages
...with their great round eyes, then suddenly leap aside, and stretch lightly away over the prairie, aa swiftly as a race-horse. Squalid, ruffian-like wolves...supplicating attitude, and yelping away most vehemently, whisking his little tail with every squeaking cry he uttered. Prairie-dogs are not fastidious in their... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 286 pages
...as they are always bold when in the neighborhood of buffalo, they would approach to look at me, gaze intently with their great round eyes, then suddenly...supplicating attitude, and yelping away most vehemently, whisking his little tail with every squeaking cry he uttered. Prairie-dogs are not fastidious in their... | |
 | 1902 - 532 pages
...sneaked through the hollows and sandy ravines. Several times I passed through villages of prairie dogs, who sat, each at the mouth of his burrow, holding...his little tail with every squeaking cry he uttered. Prairie dogs are not fastidious in their choice of companions; various long, checkered snakes were... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 400 pages
...over the hills to the right and left; and far off, the pale blue swells in the extreme distance wero dotted with innumerable specks. Sometimes I surprised...before him in a supplicating attitude, and yelping awaymost vehemently, energetically whisking his little tail with every squeaking cry he uttered. Prairie-dogs... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 402 pages
...burrow, holding his paws before 15 him in a supplicating attitude, and yelping away most vehemently, whisking his little tail with every squeaking cry...in the midst of the village, and demure little gray 20 owls, with a large white ring around each eye, were perched side by side with the rightful inhabitants.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1918 - 428 pages
...passed through villages of prairie-dogs, who sat, each at the mouth of his burrow, holding his paws 10 before him in a supplicating attitude, and yelping...checkered snakes were sunning themselves in the midst of 15 the village, and demure little gray owls, with a large white ring around each eye, were perched... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 pages
...through the hol-io lows and sandy ravines. Several times I passed through villages of prairie dogs, who sat, each at the mouth of his burrow, holding his paws before him in a prayerful manner, and yelping away with all his might, whisking his little tail with every squeaking... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 648 pages
...sneaked through the hollows and sandy ravines. Several times I passed through villages of prairie dogs, who sat, each at the mouth of his burrow, holding his paws before him in a is supplicating attitude and yelping away most vehemently, energetically whisking his little tail with... | |
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