The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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... head of a ship . Cat - harping is the name for a purchase of ropes employed to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their yards . The Cat - fall is the name of a rope employed upon the Cat - head . Two little holes astern ...
... head of a ship . Cat - harping is the name for a purchase of ropes employed to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their yards . The Cat - fall is the name of a rope employed upon the Cat - head . Two little holes astern ...
Page 8
... head of an apple , and also of a kind of fossil . Cat - silver is a fossil . Cat's - tail is a seed or a long round substance growing on a nut - tree . A Cat - fish is a shark in the West Indies . Gua- nahani , or Cat Island , a small ...
... head of an apple , and also of a kind of fossil . Cat - silver is a fossil . Cat's - tail is a seed or a long round substance growing on a nut - tree . A Cat - fish is a shark in the West Indies . Gua- nahani , or Cat Island , a small ...
Page 22
... to be cut from the head , and the jaws afterwards to be severed , before the mangled hand could be extricated . The man died from the injuries . " The jaws of a Cat are comparatively strong , and 22 The Book of Cats .
... to be cut from the head , and the jaws afterwards to be severed , before the mangled hand could be extricated . The man died from the injuries . " The jaws of a Cat are comparatively strong , and 22 The Book of Cats .
Page 24
... head for the liberty . This excited the animal's indignation still more , and springing from the table with an angry cry , he darted to the other side of the room . The two priests thought no more of the Cat until the cloth was about to ...
... head for the liberty . This excited the animal's indignation still more , and springing from the table with an angry cry , he darted to the other side of the room . The two priests thought no more of the Cat until the cloth was about to ...
Page 25
... head over which the handkerchief lay disordered . Approaching nearer he saw that it was stained with blood , and hastily removing it , saw , to his unutterable horror , that his poor friend's throat was gashed across , and that life was ...
... head over which the handkerchief lay disordered . Approaching nearer he saw that it was stained with blood , and hastily removing it , saw , to his unutterable horror , that his poor friend's throat was gashed across , and that life was ...
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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...