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Cats Cemetery (See BURIAL GROUND.) cat, Dick Whittington’s sent to Morocco, its purchase by the king gives the future Lord Mayor his stake to success. [Br. Legend: Benét, 1088] lonely star-crossed fantasist, fights against fate in strange worlds. [Comics: “Felix the Cat” in Horn, 246] lazy gourmand, impudent to its master. [Amer. Comics: Garfield] aggressive cat, hoodwinks fishmongers and upsets milkmen. [Amer. Comics: Heathcliff] perennially involved in conflict with his friend Ignatz the mouse. [Comics: Horn, 436] mysterious feline, “Napoleon of crime.” [Br. Lit.: T. S. Eliot Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in Drabble, 714] unladylike cat; its motto, “toujours gai.” [Am. Lit.: archy and mehitabel in Hart, 525] elderly cat whose comfort is seen to by the entire village. [Br. Lit.: T. S. Eliot Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in Drabble, 714] pet of a brutal alcoholic who mutilates and hangs it, with dire consequences to himself. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Black Cat”] cleverly secures a fortune for its penniless master. [Fr. Fairy Tale: “Puss in Boots” in Benét, 829] taught to speak fluently, it proves insolent and catty. [Br. Lit.: The Short Stories of Saki in Magill IV, 1148] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In another moment the lithe and shadowy figures of the cats appeared noiselessly in the red light, answering their mistress's call. They would not compromise as long as the cats held out. One evening he tied two cats together by their hind legs with a string about six feet in length, and threw them from the wall into the midst of that noble, that princely, that royal bed, which contained not only the "Cornelius de Witt," but also the "Beauty of Brabant," milk-white, edged with purple and pink, the "Marble of Rotterdam," colour of flax, blossoms feathered red and flesh colour, the "Wonder of Haarlem," the "Colombin obscur," and the "Columbin clair terni. |
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