34 examples of tom-cat in sentences

"No, sir; it was only a five-gallon demijohn of whiskey, a five-gallon demijohn of brandy, and two cases of Old Tom-Cat gin," said the cook.

Everybody knows you never had any more morals than a tom-cat on the back fence.

It was a kind of weasel, but very largelarger than a big tom-cat, and all over as black as the blackest cat.

Kittens, it seems, live and thrive through social and domestic upheavals which would annihilate a self-supporting tom-cat, and to-day I read in the morning papers the account of a noble lord's bankruptcy, and in the society ones that of his visit at the house of a Cabinet minister, where he is the most honoured guest.

I never attempted any murder in my life, except in the year 1801, upon the body of a tom-cat; and that turned out differently from my intention.

Now this gave a new turn to the affair; for the time being one of general scarcity, when even Christians were reduced to the use of potato-bread, rice-bread, and all sorts of things, it was downright treason in a tom-cat to be wasting good wheaten-bread in the way he was doing.

His way through Misses picking, Like pig with tender pettitoes, Or chicken-hearted chicken; A tom-cat shod with walnut-shells, A pony race in pattens, A wagon-horse tricked out with bells, A sow in silks and satins, A butcher's hair en papillote, And lounging Piccadilly, A clown in an embroidered coat, Are not more gauche and silly.

MEPHISTOPHELES I'm like a tom-cat in a thievish vein That up fire-ladders tall and steep And round the walls doth slyly creep; Virtuous withal I feel, with, I confess.

* "TAKIN' BOARDERS" We'd never thought of takin' 'em,'t was Mary Ann's idee, Sence she got back from boardin'-school she's called herself "Maree" An' scattered city notions like a tom-cat sheds his fur.

People who collect prints of the eighteenth century know an engraving which represents a tom-cat, rampant, holding up an oval portrait of a gentleman and standing, in order to do so, on a volume.

He prowls about at night, accompanied by a large ginger tom-cat, harpooning loose scraps of paper.

One does not stoop to a poodle or tom-cat, without feeling the heart wrung with dumb anguish.

I have just been speaking with the author; he is at the theatre and helping dress the tom-cat.

The tom-cat HINZE, is lying on a bench by the stove. LORENZ.

HINZE, the tom-cat (rises, stretches, arches his back, yawns, then speaks).

But if they knew how to manage us in the right way, believe me, they would accustom our good nature to everything, and Michel, your neighbor's tom-cat, would even at times be pleased to jump through a hoop for the king.

A tom-cat without whiskers is but a contemptible creature.

But he has a tom-cat already.

That is true; he really does look like a large tom-cat. BÖTTICH.

In Egypt cats were gods, and very nice is The Tom-cat who was cousin to Great Isis.

You're ollers quick to set your back aridge, Though't suits a tom-cat more 'n a sober bridge: Don't you git het: they thought the thing was planned; They'll cool off when they come to understand.

The inexperienced kitten which approaches us confidingly with arched back and upright tail, soliciting caresses, generally receives the gentle treatment that it expects; whereas the worldly-wise tom-cat, who, in response to friendly advances, scampers away and grins at us suspiciously from the fancied security of an adjacent wall, impels us to accelerate his retreat with a well-directed clod.

Now the proceedings of Mr. H. Weiss resembled those of the tom-cat aforesaid and invited an analogous reply.

A large, yellow tom-cat came out of the brush and threw his green headlights on him, meaowing tentatively.

For want of wild game they will harry a poor miserable tom-cat with sticks and stones.

34 examples of  tom-cat  in sentences