Cats
animal · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
cats · a starving cat · a tom-cat · cat · the cats · the poor cats
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Law in a Free State
Stray cats fed by an old lady, whose growing numbers prompt the formation of a voluntary charitable subscription club.
She is soon recognised as a benefactress, and the cats for a mile round swarm to her threshold.
And even the poor crabbed bigot, after his Lenten salad, will linger over some flower, whose fragrance arouses the memory of half-forgotten days, with emotions widely different from the feelings of a tom-cat in a bed of musk.
So, cats like the scent of verbena and musk.
Wasps
An animal used as a simile for the vigilance with which Philocleon is guarded.
Now men under arms are drawn up along the passages, keeping watch, and two of them at the very doors are watching me, holding spits, as you'd watch a cat that's filched the meat.
The Histories
Domestic cats, described for their breeding behavior and fire-related conduct, and honored with shaving-mourning and sacred burial at Bubastis.
Dead cats are taken away to sacred buildings in the town of Bubastis, where they are embalmed and buried;
and there would be many more, were it not for what happens among the cats.
so their recourse is to steal and carry off and kill the kittens (but they do not eat what they have killed).