Assertion: squirrel | /r/ObjectUse | used in europe
Facets:
value: during the middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In Europe during the Middle Ages, squirrels were sometimes used in bestiaries as symbols of greed and avarice on account of their storing of nuts, but, in the nineteenth century, British natural history books often praised them as thrifty for this same reason.