RATEL, or Honey-Badger, the name of certain Indian and African small clumsy-looking creatures of about the size and appearance of badgers, representing the genus Mellivora in the family Mustelidae (see Carnivora).   anvd [Please select]

Finally, the bird stopped; and the ratel looked, and saw that it was flitting round the base of a big mimosa.   anvd [Please select]

I know not; neither did the ratel--nor care much, for the matter of that.   anvd [Please select]

If he had done with the ratel, the ratel had not done with him.   anvd [Please select]

The moon was up when the wounded mother ratel, on guard at the mouth of her burrow, looked up sharply.   anvd [Please select]

None of them, it seemed, was tickled to meet the ratel when he had finished.   anvd [Please select]

All were blood-stained, but not a drop of it--not one drop--belonged to friend ratel.   anvd [Please select]

But it did not do what it was designed to do--it did not break the ratel's hold.   anvd [Please select]

The result was rather curious--it was also the ratel, or honey-badger, who had nothing at all to do with rats, but everything to do with honey, and was self-evidently more than three-parts badger.   anvd [Please select]

That was the magic word the bird, who was a honey-guide by name, had shouted to the ratel, who was a honey-badger, you remember; and honey-bees they were that made the air delirious.   anvd [Please select]