The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... dead . My poor old friend ! " " Dead ! the poor master dead , murdered in his own house . " They wrung their hands , tore their hair , and wept aloud . " Silence ! I command you ; and consider that every one of us standing here is ...
... dead . My poor old friend ! " " Dead ! the poor master dead , murdered in his own house . " They wrung their hands , tore their hair , and wept aloud . " Silence ! I command you ; and consider that every one of us standing here is ...
Page 49
... dead upon her grave , having , it would seem , died of grief . There is a well - authenticated story of a Cat which having had a thorn taken out of her foot by a man servant , remembered him , and welcomed him with delight when she saw ...
... dead upon her grave , having , it would seem , died of grief . There is a well - authenticated story of a Cat which having had a thorn taken out of her foot by a man servant , remembered him , and welcomed him with delight when she saw ...
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... dead . By the report of a police case at Marlborough Street , on the 28th of June last , it appeared that a husband , brutally ill - using his wife , flung her on the ground , and seizing her by the throat , endeavoured to strangle her ...
... dead . By the report of a police case at Marlborough Street , on the 28th of June last , it appeared that a husband , brutally ill - using his wife , flung her on the ground , and seizing her by the throat , endeavoured to strangle her ...
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... dead . In death her face was calm ; no expression of fear ruffled her features ; she had been shot down and died instantly at the moment of anticipated triumph . A third head belonged to a poor little Puss that had died before it had ...
... dead . In death her face was calm ; no expression of fear ruffled her features ; she had been shot down and died instantly at the moment of anticipated triumph . A third head belonged to a poor little Puss that had died before it had ...
Page 86
... quiet , Tom unwisely endeavoured to renew his domiciliary relations with man . In the dead of the night he entered a house , crept beneath a coverlet , under which a whole native family were lying 86 The Book of Cats .
... quiet , Tom unwisely endeavoured to renew his domiciliary relations with man . In the dead of the night he entered a house , crept beneath a coverlet , under which a whole native family were lying 86 The Book of Cats .
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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...