Kepple had told him how they would sit still for hours--staring unblinkingly as cats stare at a fire--and then crouch to advance.
It was only three days after when Prothero discovered exactly the same phenomenon in the School House boothole and talked of cats and cattle, that White's confidence in their friend was partially restored.
Now the deer were arising from their forms, the bears creeping out of their dens amidst the rocks and blundering down the gullies, the tigers and panthers and jungle cats stalking noiselessly from their lairs in the grass.
I have seen women kiss and fondle cats and dogs, one snap from which would result in disfiguration or horrible death, and seem not to be able to get enough of them.
I watched the tail question sharply, and soon learned the cats had been after every Lady Bird that visited our garden, or any of our neighbours, for not one of them had a tail.
Directly in front of him, so close that he could almost reach out his hand and touch it, was the smoking wreckage of two Grumman Hell Cats entwined about each other.
Let's you and I take our Hell Cats up and sort of cruise around.
That some five or six Hell Cats had already gone off was like a mule's kick in the stomach to Dawson.
One was that Grumman Hell Catswere tearing off like a string of beads.
From no trim beans its name it boasts, Grey statesmen or green wits, But from this pell-mell pack of toasts, Of old Cats and young Kits.
Surely the name is simply that of the pastrycook, Kit (Christopher) Katt, given to his pies, and has no reference to old cats or young kits or kittens.
I held her hand, and with my finger did lightly touch her wrist; and when the others came and went, 'twas as if dogs and cats had fared in and out.
As a rule, it is the females alone in cats which are tortoise-shell, the corresponding colour in the males being rusty-red.
Ducks, wild, becoming polygamous under partial domestication; dogs and cats recognised by.
This they do by taking them in their mouths and lifting them over the heads of the other females, and carefully placing them in their own harem, carrying them as cats do their kittens.
He raised from fifty to sixty white and brown piebald rabbits in a large walled orchard; and he had at the same time some similarly coloured cats in his house.
We have instances of this with our domesticated animals, as in the males of certain cats being rusty-red, whilst the females are tortoise-shell coloured.
For she was very lightly clad; and (except in Egypt) Catsare terrible to undomesticated goddesses.
Cats never blush," she answered boldly, "no matter how big they are.
A mean, malicious set of dogs and cats have turned their backs upon us both; the least we should do is to see if we can't do without them.
I have heard of lodging-house cats effecting wonders in the way of domestic disappearances, but not of magpies.
Now pin together the two ends of the pieces of paper, which are near together, and you have your two Kilkenny cats ready for the fray.
And I think if we put this problem to ourselves, how by bringing in fighting to describe a looking-glass, we shall see that the story of the Kilkenny cats is the only possible solution.
The combat becomes real to him, and the story of the Kilkenny cats is made.
Tailless breeds of animals have been formed; among which may be mentioned the rumpless fowl, and tailless cats and dogs.
They generally treat only the catsand hawks in this way.
Then Jimmy will keep us awake, and bark at Aunt Selina's cats when other excitement fails.
The other cats were so astonished at the turn things had taken that they forgot to run away, and the young man and Schippeitaro between them killed several more before they thought of escaping.
At midnight, when the full moon appeared above the top of the mountain, the cats again filled the chapel and shrieked and yelled and danced as before.
Now a vengeance on Gib light, on Gib and Gib's mother, And all the generation of cats both far and near!
Oh no, cats haven't livers and hearts like human beings.
Now I never smash windows, though I do go for the catswhen I have a chance.
Will you believe that the boy has a wretched catapult in his pocket, and there will be any number of broken windows and assassinated cats in the town.
The catapult was restored to safe depths, and before long no doubt many a domestic tabby would be missing; there would be widowed cats and orphaned kittens in many a household.
Thus it seemed the practice of making a hecatomb of dogs and catson these sad occasions.
Five cats were cherished by the novelist and his children; a snowy morning after Hawthorne's removal, three of the cats came to a neighboring house, where their descendants are still petted and cherished.
In a dingy den looking on a backyard excluded from the sun by day and vocal with cats by night; while Mrs. Mivers luxuriated in two drawing-rooms with southern aspect and perhaps a boudoir.
These enormous cats with spotted robes are so well fed in countries abounding in capybaras, pecaries, and deer, that they rarely attack men.
If we admit that, being sure of its prey, it played with the little Indian as our cats play with birds whose wings have been clipped, how shall we explain the patience of a jaguar of large size, which finds itself attacked by a girl?
By some accident a plate was given to him, out of which one of the cats had been fed.
He had drawn her two catspurring about her legs, and had written under it, "Ils viennent après le mou.
Little cats are called kittens, and are dear things.
I know somebody who killedcats with it," called out Demi, but was promptly crushed by Dan, who upset his camp-stool and put a hat over his face.
Clarissa Cox Cautiously Crept & Caught with a Candle extinguisher a Congregation of Catterwauling Cats Conducting a Confounded Corroboree.
Monkey And The Cats Two hungry cats having stolen some cheese, could not agree between themselves how to divide their booty; therefore they went to the law, and a cunning monkey was to decide their case.
A room with eight corners had a cat in each corner seven cats before each cat and a cat on every cat's tail.
Her eyes are a beautiful green, The brightest that ever were seen: Of cats she is truly the queen.
But cats and rabbits often do, when they want to stand up on their hind legs to see as far as possible.
Cats suggest coons; and coons, like cats, are commonly thought to be especially clever little animals.
VIII How We Grow By “we” I mean all living things, trees and grass and dogs and cats and boys and girls.
The animals most like ourselves, dogs and cats and horses and the like, have also intelligence, feeling and instinct.
Either they grind up plants for food, as horses and cows and sheep and goats do; or else they hunt and kill other living animals and devour them, as do the cats and dogs and wolves and foxes and hyenas and such like.
Sometimes they are the same as ours; more often they are different—things that dogs or cats or horses catch, and we do not.
But cats can hear easily a mouse’s squeek, and much higher sounds besides, such as no human being can hear at all.
For the cats and dogs do not grind corn; they kill things.
Now the wild dogs, and their cousins the wolves, do not go out alone and hunt small animals as the cats do.
That’s why dogs and cats and the wild creatures like them, are so short lived.
But the father of cats is also a great deal like a seal, and something like an otter—at least he used to take readily to the water, as our modern cats certainly do not.
But ants from different nests, deprived of their antennae only as far as the sixth joint, straightway start to fighting like cats and dogs; and never leave off till they are all killed or disabled.
Domestic cats soon revert to a semi-wild state when once they take to the woods, and are terribly destructive in the coverts.
Climatic influences work remarkable changes upon the fur, causing it to grow longer and thicker; and the cats take up their abode in stony crevasse or hollow tree.
These birds hunt silently and in the night, and are nothing short of lynx-eyed cats with wings.
He can remember when there was larger game than now, when badgers and wild cats were not uncommon.
If all the long-legged cats in the world had come rushing helter-skelter at her then, she would not have been afraid of them for a single moment.
Our little dogs and cats and pigs and small bears would enjoy him very much.
Do tell me what you are going to do, anyway--and for pity's sake don't have any cats in it.
He thought it was to represent the games of the Roman arena with cats instead of lions and tigers.
It would take a whole army of cats to make the noises I have heard," Winnie replied hotly, at the same time rolling Adelaide's great Saratoga trunk in front of the door.
For love you heard how amorous asses bray'd, And cats in gutters gave their serenade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
