The nails of her hands were like the claws of a tree-cat as they tore at me. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He slowed as he neared the strangers, and dropped to all fours, stalking like a slim tree-cat along the branch and taking care not to rustle the leaves. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)
He gave the sharp, barking note, but his only answer was the mocking maiou of the little spotted tree-cat winding in and out among the branches for early birds 'nests. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open." ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
For the forest lynx, or tree-cat, was the emblem of these people; and every ❋ Unknown (1899)
I was aroused toward nine by the Mohican, and sat up as wide awake as a disturbed tree-cat, instantly ready for trouble. ❋ Unknown (1899)
They had stripped great squares of bark from half a dozen trees, and were busily painting upon them, in red and blue, insulting signs and symbols -- a dead tree-cat, scalped, and full of arrows; a snake severed into sections; a Seneca tied to a post and a broken wampum belt at his feet. ❋ Unknown (1899)
"I think," said the Mohican deliberately, "that there may be a tree-cat in their vicinity." ❋ Unknown (1899)
Oh, yes, there might well be phantoms in this ghastly mansion; but they had nothing to do with me; only the absent master of the house was any concern of mine; and, finding at last the window I sought for, I shoved it open and climbed to the sill, landing upon the floor inside, my moccasined feet making no more sound than the padded toes of a tree-cat. ❋ Unknown (1899)
It was the glimpse of cannon and levelled bayonets that bewildered him; and his bawling charge sheered wide o 'the shabby Continental battle-line, through which we galloped into safety, our Indian sticking to my crupper like a tree-cat with every claw. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Like a startled tree-cat the figure sprang to its feet, whirling to confront me. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Sick at heart I pressed forward once more, going at a steady wolf-trot; and so silently, so noiselessly, that twice I routed deer from their hemlock beds, and once came plump on a tree-cat that puffed up into fury and backed off spitting and growling, eyes like green flames, and every hair on end. ❋ Unknown (1899)
"Were the braids fastened at the roots with tree-cat claws?" ❋ Unknown (1899)
He thought of her as like the leopard tree-cat, most graceful creature of the wood, so trim was she and full of elasticity, and thought of her, too, as he looked in her intelligent face, as higher in another way. ❋ Stanley Waterloo (1879)
(toddy-cat and tree-cat of Europeans); _Sakrala_, _Khoonla_. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
"Now I wonder what young ijjut packed that tree-cat in here last night? ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
Bagheera, IS it well for the Black Panther so to lie on his back and beat with his paws in the air, as though he were the tree-cat? " ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
But "-- and the Mohican's voice became quietly ferocious --" if a war-arrow ever struck this Wyandotte between the shoulders I think every tree-cat in the Long House would squall at the condoling council. " ❋ Unknown (1899)
[Fuck] [I had] a tree cat [last night] ❋ RobnDean (2005)
That is a [real tree] [horse] [house cat]! ❋ 347 Hello There (2021)
