The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... common salt . Cat's - eye or Sun - stone of the Turks is a kind of gem found chiefly in Siberia . It is very hard and semi - transparent , and has different points from whence the light is reflected with a kind of yellowish The Book of ...
... common salt . Cat's - eye or Sun - stone of the Turks is a kind of gem found chiefly in Siberia . It is very hard and semi - transparent , and has different points from whence the light is reflected with a kind of yellowish The Book of ...
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... common expression of contempt is to call a person Cat - faced . Artists call portraits containing two - thirds of the figure Kit - cat size . With little boys in the street a Cat is a dreadfully objectionable plaything , roughly cut out ...
... common expression of contempt is to call a person Cat - faced . Artists call portraits containing two - thirds of the figure Kit - cat size . With little boys in the street a Cat is a dreadfully objectionable plaything , roughly cut out ...
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... common . Once Mind did not look upon Cats merely as subjects for art ; his liking for them was very great . when hydrophobia was raging in Berne , and eight hundred were destroyed in consequence of an order issued by the civic ...
... common . Once Mind did not look upon Cats merely as subjects for art ; his liking for them was very great . when hydrophobia was raging in Berne , and eight hundred were destroyed in consequence of an order issued by the civic ...
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... common to all vertebrated animals , but is especially beautiful and lustrous in nocturnal animals . The herbivora , such as the ox and sheep , have the tapetum of the finest enamelled green colour , provided probably to suit the nature ...
... common to all vertebrated animals , but is especially beautiful and lustrous in nocturnal animals . The herbivora , such as the ox and sheep , have the tapetum of the finest enamelled green colour , provided probably to suit the nature ...
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... common with most animals , the Cat is furnished with a nictitating membrane , which is , in fact , a third eyelid , sliding over the transparent cornea be- neath the common eyelids . This membrane is not altogether opaque , but ...
... common with most animals , the Cat is furnished with a nictitating membrane , which is , in fact , a third eyelid , sliding over the transparent cornea be- neath the common eyelids . This membrane is not altogether opaque , but ...
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Page 258 - Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
Page 259 - Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize ; Nor all that glisters gold.
Page 86 - Whittington and his Cat, and that, in order to it, there had been got together a great quantity of mice ; but Mr. Rich, the proprietor of the playhouse, very prudently considered that it would be impossible for the cat to kill them all...