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But even as the reforms were being written, mustela congressa lobbyista was busily burrowing its way into the new majority, inserting weaselly language that lets lobbyists continue slipping corporate money to lawmakers.

Congress Ethics Rules Undermined by Weasels 2009

There's also the mustela congressa lobbyista, which is that mischievous grouping of Washington lobbyists who habitually team up with certain congress-critters to burrow loopholes in our country's ethics laws.

Congress Ethics Rules Undermined by Weasels 2009

Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This cannot be the mustela of the antients, which is supposed to be the sea lamprey.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Catus (which Isidore derives from catare, to look for) = gatto, chat, cat, an animal unknown to the Classics of Europe who used the mustela or putorius vulgaris and different species of viverræ.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The ermine is of the genus mustela (weasel), and resembles the common weasel in its form, is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.

Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836

Europe and Siberia, and is also of the genus mustela.

Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836

Wallich informs us that the ladies of his time had recourse, on such occasions, to the brains of the mustela piscis.

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833

The several species of mustela are common, as the mink, weasel and polecat; (putorius) racoons and opossums, are in great abundance, these animals are esteemed delicious and healthy food.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823