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With beaverish industry, armed with staplers, tape, glue and other humble implements of construction, he has transformed his vulgar materials into glittering altars, chalices, papal crowns and icons.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2012

Today's manager is a beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows.

From Time Magazine Archive

His plan was beaverish: to walk, sniff, conn and brood every one of the county's 12 central grids, 744 sq. mi. on the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The campaign was a nightmare for the shy, beaverish Hoover who hates crowds, strangers, speechmaking, gladhanding. backslapping.

From Time Magazine Archive

These, then, are our two careers for genius: mute Industrialism, which can seldom become very human, but remains beaverish mainly: and the three Professions named learned,—that is to say, able to talk.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas