Certain food hoarders and robbers, like the vole, are so very greedy and become such misers that they often threaten total destruction to large areas of grain.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
On another occasion I saw a water-vole running away from some larger animal under the opposite bank of the river.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
But I've a charm your anger shall control, And turn your eyes with coldness on the vole.
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young