| 单词 | tomcat |
| 例句 | Like a proud tomcat showing off the spoils of his hunt, he leaves what he finds for my mother in the kitchen. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The tomcat watched her come, his eyes wary. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Taking my furs, I sneaked out through a back door and, walking like a tomcat, I made it to the timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Garden City's animals are two gray tomcats who are always together—thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from Grandma herself, I was the only one who’d seen her big old snaggletoothed tomcat streak out of the coffin and over the windowsill when she let fire. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In his arms he was carrying the huge orange tomcat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, R.C., I was trying to chase that old tomcat out of our yard; he gets into Gramma’s garbage cans.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z One day I had talked Call into exploring the house with me, but just as we stepped onto the porch, a huge orange-colored tomcat came shrieking out a broken window at us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tomcats had fallen silent, probably licking their wounds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And I could see the old tomcat from here, stretched out in the yard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When she was three steps away from him, the tomcat bolted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But I saw nothing but the crossed paws of the old tomcat, napping just inside the door. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Not much longer and Victor would have started to purr like a satisfied tomcat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Two tomcats were fighting somewhere on the rooftops, and the guard bent to pick up a stone to throw at them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The brother-in-law growled in his throat like a happy tomcat and the pregnant ladies twittered like alouettes singing to the sun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe had to admire a tomcat with that kind of balls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “An old black tomcat with a tom ear,” Cersei told him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I open it to find Buttercup, Prim’s scruffy old tomcat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z One night she’d have a nightmare about old Shotgun Cheatham sitting up in his coffin, and on the night after that she’d dream that Grandma’s big old tomcat was jumping at her. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Tayo remembered fighting tomcats then, the frozen pose, arched bodies coiled, only the tails twitching with their anger, until one or the other made a move and they went rolling around in the dirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen doorway, back arched, ears flattened, stands the ugliest tomcat in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I haven’t had any visitors since I got here except for an old tomcat.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned back in the chair, fighting the urge to smile like a tomcat in a dovecote. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Thousand began to close in—stoats, a fox, even a tomcat from some farm or other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When Martha calls in the local vet to fix some of the tomcats hanging around, Ernest accuses her of trying to emasculate him. Review | Martha Gellhorn imagined she and Hemingway could form an unbeatable team 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Except, perhaps for a taxi driver who growled like a tomcat whenever he saw a woman. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z That’s how the party scene found itself with the tomcat, a character that appears in Act 2, rubbing up against their legs, pretending to be the family cat. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The German word, Kater, means “tomcat,” presumably as in being mauled by one. The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The Tale of Ginger and Pickles” features Ginger, a yellow-tabby tomcat who, despite being a shopkeeper, prefers not to serve the mice who enter his store, “because he said it made his mouth water.” The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Anvils drop from the sky to crush devious coyotes or tomcats who emerge alive, if bandaged and on crutches, in the next frame, ready to build better mousetraps. "BoJack Horseman": Life's hilarity and pain, illustrated 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z But as the family, led by Danny Glover’s cautiously wise patriarch, reveals its own fault lines — and Tully marks his territory by spraying like an unneutered tomcat — the atmosphere becomes increasingly oppressive. ‘Supremacy,’ With Danny Glover 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z They find themselves competing for McBurney’s favor as he sets about manipulating their vanities and insecurities, smiling like a tomcat who has stumbled into a cage full of canaries. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Then he’s a natural, and when other characters describe him as a tomcat, you know exactly what they mean. In ‘Hamilton,’ Javier Muñoz Puts a Different Spin on the Title Role 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Felis up: A particularly aggressive species of orange tomcat. Style Invitational Week 1231: TankaWanka 3 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z I remember feeling like a mouse that had found the tiniest hole for escape while a giant tomcat loomed. My illegal abortion 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z Damon and Bale, both charismatic movie stars, don’t put out quite the same kind of erotic magnetism, and their characters are decidedly not tomcats or horndogs. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z He had traveled out with his wife and mother-in-law from the town of Vasylivka, just across the front line, with a few belongings in plastic bags and their ginger tomcat in a pet basket. As Ukraine Bears Down, Life Worsens in Occupied Areas 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z All the same, though there’s no reinvention of the genre here, Louder’s mesmerizing mouse proves more than a match for the assembled tomcats — all exuding machismo — with whom she must deal. Review | ‘Copshop’ is a cat-and-mouse movie with four cats — and one mesmerizing mouse 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The Cats Protection charity said the family in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was also being watched over by a tomcat, which was "very unusual". Mother cat and kittens found in Amersham bird's nest in tree 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The tomcat was a sentimental topic of conversation in Cameron’s final appearance in Parliament as prime minister when he said he wanted to quash a rumor that — perish the thought — he didn’t like Larry. UK’s chief mouser celebrates 10 years on the prowl 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z His father was a tomcat, forever destabilizing the household with his extramarital affairs, his sister, Julie, told me, and Brickman was an anxious, insecure little boy. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z A Facebook picture Peterson posted looking down into the Black Canyon of the Yellowstone convinced another mountain lion hunter that the trio illegally killed the tomcat in the park. Social media did in Yellowstone lion poachers 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z A large ginger tomcat was given a Trump hairstyle and christened The Orange President of the Sanctuary. Return of the cat man 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “He used to sneak out at night like a tomcat,” he says. 'I punched him so hard he cried': inside the Street Fighter movie 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z A childhood friend compared him to “a tomcat, constantly tense and grumpy”; later in life he acquired the nickname Gniewosz, which blended his name with the Polish word for “anger.” Czeslaw Milosz’s Battle for Truth 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z A ginger-and-white tomcat, he started life inside our building's parking garage. Our cat in Havana - BBC News 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The tomcat was a sentimental topic of conversation in Cameron's final appearance in Parliament as prime minister. Mice watch out: Larry the cat to stay at 10 Downing Street 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Newton points out that dictionaries note that tomcat only meant a “male cat” in the 18th century and didn’t carry its other connotation - a promiscuous man - until later. A Hamilton tale too tall? Group disputes tomcat story 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Newton points out that dictionaries note that tomcat only meant a “male cat” in the 18th century and didn’t carry its other connotation — a promiscuous man — until later. A Hamilton tale too tall? Group disputes tomcat story 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Hamilton was on the prowl for a bride while serving as Washington’s aide de camp, so Washington’s wife Martha named a tomcat after him. Alexander Hamilton: The show, the book and the places 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The silvery tomcat, Munkustrap, who obliges as the musical’s M. C., is depicted by David Raimo with the easy assurance of a leading man. | Long Island: Theater Review: A Review of ‘Cats,’ at the Gateway Playhouse 2012-05-26T05:25:47Z George nodded, and hoped she would go on talking like that, blinking after the fashion of a tomcat who has just enjoyed a bowl of cream. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z “Bill” had forgotten all about it, and knew that there ought to be only one tiger-striped tomcat about the place, whereas his eyes told him there were two. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Killing for a living is dangerous business, and I expect even the toughest fisher would back down from a mean, nasty tomcat. Scientist at Work: Do Fishers Really Eat Cats? 2011-04-06T11:41:06Z Even at night, when they were in bed, you would be under their windows making more noise than so many tomcats with your serenades. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Now again he was seen in the ball-room, looking at the dancing couples with the eyes of a good-natured tomcat who sees black and white mice play merrily on the barn-floor before him. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z In "S," it turns into a feisty tomcat. Review: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E350 Cabriolet 2010-10-19T21:26:00Z Hardly had the frying bacon started its sizzling prelude than there came a joyous yowl at the door, and as it was opened an enormous tiger-striped tomcat bounded into the kitchen. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z What’s more, that spotted tomcat has got a monopoly on our water supply. Into the Primitive And not only is he a tomcat, he is a hate-scarred noctivagant, owning but an ear and a half, and a poor third of tail. The Book of Susan A Novel I wonder whether my drawing still exists, and, if so, whether it is going down as an heirloom from generation to generation with the bedstead, the looking-glass, and the middle-aged tomcat lady. Fragments of an Autobiography He flashed his quick, infectious smile at me, and tweaked his mustache ends, for all the world like a self-satisfied tomcat furbishing his whiskers after finishing a bowl of cream. Pledged to the Dead The sounds of the latter instruments resemble most the cries of a pugnacious conclave of tomcats on the rampage at midnight. The Pearl of India Just then an oldish man of a chunky build, and with an eye as black as the driven tomcat, reached through the crowded aisle with his umbrella and touched the girl. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories After that the first team watched him like tomcats watching a mouse and Teeny-bits got no chance to break away. The Mark of the Knife While Master Sean talked, Lord Darcy was prowling around the room, reminding one of a lean tomcat who was certain that there was a mouse concealed somewhere. The Eyes Have It "I find after all that I shall not need it, you poor little prowling tomcat!—Good-by." Kildares of Storm The corner street lamp reacted upon his eyes like a flashlight thrown on a tomcat in an alley. Stopover Planet He drew what he deserved—a sullen, scared old tomcat with none of the verve of Captain Wow. The Game of Rat and Dragon An old war‑battered tomcat Barty was fond of jumps up and makes friends too. The Martian I thought your live stock was confined to dogs, and a cow, and the tomcat—by the way, I don't see him any more. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice They glared and growled and spit, just like two huge tomcats, then they sailed into each other. The Grain Ship "Now then, all together, as the tomcat said to the boy's with the brickbats." The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht “He was a dear little kitty once, I suppose, but he grew up to be a big selfish, glowering, tortoise-shell tomcat.” The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives The day after this Jack again went out and hired himself to a baker, who would give him nothing for his work but a large tomcat. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Sleep on, deluded James, while I finish my cigar here on deck: dream of the forest and the trout brooks, and your neighbor Hodge and your old tomcat. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Kate is staring out the window and stroking the old stray tomcat between the ears, and it hits me: there isn’t a person in the world she loves or even hates. It’s like this, cat I should say it was one of them pleasant brutes out for a holiday—one of them tiger or leopard things, like what we used to see in Wombwell’s show, like great tomcats. The Golden Magnet The Egyptians ran very fast and felt very savage, but they might just as well have tried to catch three active tomcats. The Three Midshipmen "There you go, comparing us to a bunch of tomcats," chuckled Frank. Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet He reminded Lake of a battle-scarred, indomitable tomcat who would never, for as long as he lived, want to relinquish the joy of conflict and danger. Space Prison Today Susan and her kittens are under the stove, and Susan keeps hissing at a big tiger-striped tomcat crouching under the sofa. It’s like this, cat “You look, miss, and see me run like a tomcat.” Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Yet the Indian elephant is about as much like his African brother as a tomcat is like a tiger. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country Just like all tomcats, every once in a while he has to stretch his claws and yowl. Skylark Three "There, there, my precious little impotent tomcat," Belle soothed him aloud, between giggles and snorts. The Galaxy Primes You mean get him fixed so he’s not a real tomcat any more? It’s like this, cat He thought, suddenly, of an old tomcat belonging to a lady of his acquaintance at Paris-on-Baldur, a most affectionate cat, who insisted on catching mice and bringing them as presents to all his human friends. A Slave is a Slave It was a large sleepy-looking tomcat, very black, and of a most uncommon seriousness of deportment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 I made my siren imitate a tail-tramped tomcat a couple of times, and got in among them. Four-Day Planet White tomcats with blue eyes are always deaf. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists “Yes, you will, you old tomcat!” and the two clasped hands warmly, and looked deep into each other’s eyes. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Well, yer honor, the tiger is as big as a hundred tomcats, and by the same token he ought to be able to run up a wall--" "A thousand feet high, Tim? With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire For an instant, Cardon was reminded of a tomcat watching a promising mouse hole. Null-ABC "Not to carry any more bandboxes or tomcats." The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales My story does not bother with him, but only with the old tomcat tied up in the sack away there out in the forest. Old Peter's Russian Tales We tread as daintily as does a gray tomcat when he encounters a glass topped wall on a windy night. Private Peat His quarters was a small room in the rear of the building, which he shared with a huge gray tomcat named Mosby. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Invitations have been sent to the Order of Frugivorous Brothers, the Infants' Anti-Tobacco League,"— "Two drops of the oil of tobacco will kill a tomcat of the largest proportions," murmured Mr. Stellato, in choral parenthesis. —" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 So we went to lodge on the topmost floor of a tall Edinburgh land, with only some indifferent slates and the midnight tomcats between us and the stars. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 This card pictured a fashionably dressed tomcat, complete with high collar, cane and derby, sitting somewhat disconsolately on a fence as the crescent moon rose behind him, with these reflections: How terribly lonesome I feel! History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills Goldie was the tomcat, so termed by reason of his splendid tawniness. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories It was the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a dark corner as a club for tomcats. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great Maria, I wish to gracious you'd go up stairs and look after the children.—Well, about half a minute after she struck out stepped that tomcat onto the weathercock. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Vick is either in hot pursuit of, or hot flight from, the tomcat; all her four legs are quivering and kicking in a mimic gallop. Nancy It's the sun-cure on the hot stone-wall, from which I arise wan and shrunken, baked through and through, but svelte enough to make the youngest tomcat envious. Barks and Purrs Now the Doctor had a favorite tomcat whom he called "Hodge," and Boswell relates how he "suffered from the presence of this same Hodge." Fun and Frolic Verdi was brown and black, heavyset, with a large tomcat's head and yellow eyes. O+F And when everything was ready, they brought out Bradley's tomcat and put it in the basket and tied it in, so it couldn't jump, you know. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot And the note of the tomcat as he sings to his love in the stilly night outside on the tiles becomes positively distasteful when heard so near. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Ginger was a yellow tomcat, and Pickles was a terrier. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter He may not have as much principle as a tomcat in rutting time, but he poses before all men as a "guardian of public morals." Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 It is devoid of political principle as a thieving tomcat of conscience. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Later on, this disappears like the playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. Les Misérables “Have to have a tomcat,” said Mr. Polly, and paused for an expectant moment. The History of Mr. Polly In the wild rush of a marauding tomcat the car crossed a broad public square and sped up the graded approach to a bridge. Red Masquerade My husband takes his family cares as lightly as a tomcat. Purple Springs They fight, and caterwaul like a lot of tomcats. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake There was nothing cat-like in his appearance, yet at moments when with him she thought of a tomcat, of its swiftness, suppleness, gliding energies and watchful reserve. December Love It had been a large experience of the tomcat cats that had made her add that final summary of men to Keggo. This Freedom Others still more vindictive pasted a picture of a large tomcat, hunched of back and bristling of hair, right next to the Senator's campaign picture which already decorated the middle of the Truckee. Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information I shall get through," said the friar, "on my beard, and where that goes I can follow as easily as a tomcat his head. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca "He looked exactly like a great black tomcat, that he did, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan. Rainbow Valley Then I jumped to the tiller, and the Patience M. took after that skiff like a pup after a tomcat. Cape Cod Stories Tame cats, tabby cats, tomcats, Cheshire cats, wild cats, stray cats,—I'm not going to set up a cats' home. This Freedom Same as I know when that Lucy Larcom tomcat of Martha's has been in a fight, by the looks of him. Galusha the Magnificent The proprietor of the converted palace where we stopped in Naples was the very image of a tomcat we used to own, named Plutarch's Lives, which was half Maltese and half Mormon. Europe Revised Then I went into the back yard to interview my favorite playmate, our big, black tomcat, and aroused him from his cat nap. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales He approached in simulated terror, Hephaestus uttering blood-curdling howls, and every time he touched the handle of the door Hephaestus sprang at him like a tiger with the tomcat's hateful hiss. Simon the Jester It's men that are the cat tribe: tame cats, tabby cats, wild cats, Cheshire cats, tomcats and stray cats! This Freedom I should have no more hesitation in sleeping out in a wood where there were cougars, or walking through it after nightfall, than I should have if the cougars were tomcats. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Barbara, of course, was partially responsible for this amazing invitation, but it was Heman Taylor's old brindle tomcat which really brought it to pass. Shavings While I sat there, lighting my pipe and blessing my luck, I saw a black tomcat come along and jump my claim. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales One verdict will say the kitten contains the mouse; the other will as certainly say the mouse is in the tomcat. Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. I remember me well, bein’ under the same roof at the time on Florida, when a big tomcat chased a cockroach into the papers. Jerry of the Islands The duet ended with a comic yodel which Prulliere delivered very amusingly with the yell of an angry tomcat. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola That everlastin' Cherub tomcat of Taylor's must have sneaked in with the boy when he brought the order from the store. Shavings It was like a gigantic tomcat spitting at one suddenly. 'Twixt Land and Sea Without shadow of doubt the tomcat contains the mouse.” Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. |
| 随便看 |
|
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。