The hedge-hog, so well secured against all assaults by his prickly hide, and the porcupine with his missile quills, would be then considered as creatures of no small elegance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And now he is but very middling; sits grinning like a man in straw; curses and swears, and is confounded gloomy; and creeps into holes and corners, like an old hedge-hog hunted for his grease. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A large hedge-hog was found here, which the Tekayrne skinned, and ate in the evening. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The man who rises in the morning, with his feelings all bristling like the quills of a hedge-hog, simply needs to be knocked down. ❋ Timothy Titcomb (N/A)
She noted the beauty of the foliage against the moon, heard the swift scurry of a frightened rabbit and the faint snort of a hedge-hog on the prowl for food. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)
About the middle of the last century any person killing a hedge-hog in Therfield and taking it to the ❋ Alfred Kingston (N/A)
The price after this went down to 2d. for a hedge-hog and ❋ Alfred Kingston (N/A)
A thrush sang in a tree and a little hedge-hog crossed the stony path in front of him with awkward steps. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Elsa, he decided, was a good girl in a hedge-hog environment of unbelievable traits, of warring contrasts. ❋ Stuart Oliver Henry (1906)
Then he give me a lot o 'hedge-hog quills sewed on to buckskin an' says he: ❋ Irving Bacheller (1904)
No sooner had I landed, than there bounded towards me about a dozen strange beings, of what description it was almost impossible to make out through the blinding showers -- a species of human hedge-hog, each dragging some large black thing; they came screaming around me and stopped my progress. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)
When the old woman heard this, she was sore enraged and the hair of her body stood on end, like that of a hedge-hog. ❋ Anonymous (1879)
Joseph Poorgrass was curled round in the fashion of a hedge-hog, apparently in attempts to present the least possible portion of his surface to the air; and behind him was dimly visible an unimportant remnant of William Smallbury. ❋ Unknown (1874)
He rolled himself round, and like a hedge-hog sought shelter within the circumference of his own person. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Like the hedge-hog, which is typically a gypsy animal, he likes better to be eaten by those of his own kind than to be crushed into dirt by those who do not understand him. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
This story of the hedge-hog was cited from my first gypsy book by Sir Charles Dilke, in a speech in which he made an application of it to certain conservatives who remained blindly suffering by their own party. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
This sub-class derives its name from the character of the integument, and its appendages, which remotely resemble that of the hedge-hog. ❋ Unknown (1858)
The porcupine, although as common as the hedge-hog in England, is very seldom seen. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
Hall, all point, covered with spikes: every where we boast ourselves an ethical hedge-hog, all-over-armed with keen morals -- a Rumour painted full of tongues, echoing all around with revealing of secrets. ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)
