“What you going to do with that cat?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fully grown, sleek and plump and beautiful, and as tame and contented as any house cat. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The big cat had eaten as much as it could manage and had withdrawn to rest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that the boy was holding his cat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she’s done telling us about all the pets she brought with her—three dogs, five cats, two chickens, and a hamster—lunch is over. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A wooden match flared, and he saw James, crouched like a cat, his eyes wide, sweat bubbling on his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, he puzzled, the cat had been alive, and, according to Longridge’s map, must have traveled over a hundred miles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saber-toothed Small Bob lunged at the god, but Tartarus smacked the cat sideways. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The marmalade cat loomed up out of the half-light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The cat is one of the tokens from that board game,” said Sierra, who had been studying Lemoncello games the way Kyle had been studying libraries and books. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A lady cat strolled lonesomely along the gutter looking for adventure. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sue, who had adopted another of Nancy’s orphaned pets, a cat, wished she could give Babe a home, for she loved the old horse and knew how much Nancy had loved her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did the cat say to you, mouse?” he rasped. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Particles are constantly winking in and out of existence, like tiny Cheshire cats. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If he’d arrived there thirty seconds earlier or later, he would never have seen the cat, never have found the window, never have discovered Cittàgazze and Lyra; none of this would have happened. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I happen to like trees more than cats. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After a tentative moment, she sank her fingers into it luxuriantly and was overjoyed when the cub continued to purr like the great cat he was. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Between her hands, at the level of her heart, she holds a glass object: an oversized cat’s eye marble, with a blue center. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on top of me, kneading into my chest with her claws like a cat, laughing when I winced in pain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The cat transferred his attention to a hind leg; the old dog stopped panting and lay down; the young dog remained stretched out, only his eyes moving and an occasional twitch of his nose. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each princess, when she came down to bathe in the palace lake, would slip her rings for safekeeping on the tail of her attendant cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted back in his chair and surveyed his legion of digital friends—invented names, profile pictures of cartoon characters or frowning cats. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The phenomenon has been ob­served with big cats, bison, deer, wild sheep, monkeys and many other animals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she had seen the cat in several days, since they had returned together from the other mother’s place. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Before the cat or the mouse could say anything to stop him, he hopped over to the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat had a ribbon tied around its neck. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then the door to the bathroom swung open, just a few inches, enough for the little brown cat to put her head around the doorframe and “Mrr?” up at him, curiously. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I yelled her name over unhappy cat sounds coming from the other side of the door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the door open for the cat to come in. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to wager against the cat?” asked Grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sunny morning, with stolen bread in her pocket for dinner and a bit of old cheese to share with the cat, Beetle started for the fence post. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge tawny creature, its body low to the ground, like a cat streaking across the lawn to a tree when a strange dog has got into the garden, was behind them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The lighted windows and the music and the terrified, disbelieving look on a cat’s face when he was vanquished? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

If big Daddy-O was going to blow his stack over a witch doctor, here’s one cat that wasn’t going to miss it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the birds and lizards were food for the cats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been immune from cats, from traps, from poison and from Jody. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she jumped down from the sill, onto the bed, where she wrapped herself into a curl of fur and went back to sleep, a circle of cat upon the old counterpane. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know what power this cat’s eye has, to protect me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both of the men were rolling up their sleeves, huffing and posturing like a pair of alley cats. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But when I went to get a mop I saw something worse—that cat, that fool Pete, up on the kitchen table gorging crabmeat salad. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, a kid named Dillon said I look like a lion, which was fine with me, since I love those big cats. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And so can dogs and cats and pigs and oh! so many others. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the cat came back, on and off, for years. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I scratch my fingers on the floor, trying to get the cat’s attention. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"Little cat," he murmured in a voice thin and wispy and wracked by pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that toxoplasmosis and campylobacteriosis are transmitted to humans from the fecal matter of cats?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ever so often, I come to work and find her bawling in her crib, Miss Leefolt busy on the sewing machine rolling her eyes like it’s a stray cat stuck in the screen door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He feels ill at ease with the praise, just as he had when he was a child and destroyed his drawing of the cat, the clay figure of the elephant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For comfort, I tried to cradle Quixote, our gray and white cat who was missing an ear, but he growled and scratched at my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without turning or looking around he addressed the cat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The lamassus struck first and Nergal pulled out the spear to defend himself, but he instantly vanished under a mass of frenzied big cats. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“She does make a good cat, doesn’t she?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We locked the cat in an upstairs bathroom and Charles went down to the kitchen, to make himself something to eat, he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He scraped out a can of cat food onto a plate and set the plate by the closet door. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Well," she said, pretending to address the whole class, "let us leave sums for the moment and see if any of you have begun to learn to spell. Hands up anyone who can spell cat." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of them took apart a radio and dropped the pieces into a stream, ate a butterfly, and cut the throat of a cat, because she was deranged. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His nostrils flared when he spoke, which made it really hard not to stare up his nose, and his eyes were two different colors— one brown, one blue—like an alley cat’s. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Long. You look like the cat that swallowed the canary. What’s going on?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Petey wondered how the mother cat told them apart, if she ever needed to. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I'm not the cat, actually. The cat is us. I am a physicist. You are a physicist. The cat is us." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Dogs sniffed them, cats crept past them stalking the fat pigeons; women, laden with heavy shopping bags, shuffled across the wet pavement; But still Scipio didn't appear. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cat moved through the darkness carrying a live mouse it would kill in a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the only pictures she posted online were of Kahlo, one of her cats, and her swollen toe after she stubbed it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I sit down in this old-lady chair that's so soft, I almost sink through to the floor and I'm wondering what happened to the cats. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I met chicks who were fine as May wine, and cats who were hip to all happenings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still others wear all kinds of avatar items, virtual cat ears or antlers on their heads, enormous angel wings on their backs, hair and eyes in every color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s your cat,” she says, pointing to a stack of gloves and wool hats. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We all help one another against the cat,” she said. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In one quick gulp, she downed the white larva, then fell to her hands and knees, gagging like a cat with a hairball. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once she found a nest of baby mice who had frozen in the cold, and she left them by the fence post for the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was taking care of stray cats. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was too much for him and he took off down the street, squalling like a scalded cat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that I’ve wounded the brute’s tiny cat feelings just invites further taunting. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As soon as he disappeared from the window, she slipped off the bed like that stupid cat and put her bra and shoes on in the dark. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me, young elf, but my cat’s climbed a stalactite.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So we stood there staring at the phone while the refrigerator hummed and a cat purred beside us. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ain’t nothing alive on this block except mangy cats and stray dogs, and they look like they want to jack me up, too. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘No wonder,’ Rab was saying, ‘Stranger tore that letter up. It certainly let the cat out of the bag. Where you off to, Johnny?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can do just the same with cats. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been three years, Jackson. A cat can do a lot of learning in that time. I read the dictionary four times last month.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And the sack with eel and cat was tossed into the pond. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat grew impatient and squirmed out of her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She always seemed skittish, kind of like a cat that’s been kicked around too many times. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was no one, only the placid tabby cat gazing at me from under the shelter of the eaves. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wears these cat ears now, on a black headband. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’d sidestepped too fast—someone had been rushing between the lab tables with a sopping dead cat in their hands—and he’d slammed into me just as I was walking up. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And wherever did the cat come from? He was waiting by the front door when I came in. Shot out like a bullet as I opened it.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She crept up to the bag and found the scrawny, scruffy orange cat tangled in the soggy sack. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark figure crept through the narrow opening like a cat and reached back in for a coat and a pair of shoes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With a squall of pain and rage, the big cat rolled over on his side, dragging Little Ann with him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the answer to the original question—if drug dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their mothers?—is that, except for the top cats, they don’t make much money. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and we were greeted by a cat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He crawls back into the office and grabs the cat by the tail. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The bones from a black cat are powerful.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The cat slunk over and began to twine round his ankles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So she didn’t know what had become of her cat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But we had plenty of cats to keep us company. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s suffering from middle cat syndrome and peed to get attention. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I was drawn by the sight of the cool-looking “cats” standing around inside, bending over the big, green, felt-topped tables, making bets and shooting the bright-colored balls into the holes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, most stores buy yellow and black crepe paper and black paper cats, masks and papier-mâché pumpkins in October. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably still mad because the neighbor’s cat had snuck up on him and stolen two of his tail feathers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She kneeled, and picked up the ecstatic, purring cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the cat began to run too, bounding like a mad thing down the hill, and they met on the banks of the little stream. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's watching me the way someone would watch an injured cat—not wanting to leave it alone but scared to get too close too quickly. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cat listened carefully, although sometimes he lost patience with the tutoring and began to bite at the tantalizingly moving pen. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I hear them laughing late, beer cans and cats and the trees talking to themselves: wait, wait, wait. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat room is smaller than the dog room, but it has more occupants, and it smells worse. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The mother cat prowled in front of the door. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The green eyes of the black cat glowed and its snarl was something out of the jungle, the threat of a panther. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On one grave was a beautiful little cat with a pink sugar nose and a tail curled around its feet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screams of the big cat and the deep bellowing voices of my dogs echoed through the mountains as if the demons of hell had been turned loose. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found out pretty quick that I was a different breed of cat from Father. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You keep saying it’s all good, but it’s not. This is the worst summer ever. Thomas moved away. My iPhone died. And Fig’s got the silent cat killer. Faith is dumb.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her silver hair was stuffed under it, wisps sticking out the sides like she was hiding an old cat up there. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Fancy show cats yawned contemptuously at the crowds that milled around them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed Small Bob the cat had hidden himself in Bob’s coveralls again, which reinforced Percy’s opinion that the kitten was the smartest one in their group. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sheep raised for wool, pet dogs and cats, war horses and race horses often enjoyed comfortable conditions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a quick tour of the girls’ tent, which was slightly smaller than the boys’, though without the smell of cats, Harry, Ron, and Hermione set off across the campsite with the kettle and saucepans. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he has a cat and it jumped off a bed when we knocked,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cat and the possum stared at each other with big, round eyes of mutual shock, and then the possum groaned and slumped to the ground. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I told her what Grandpa said, she slammed her book down so hard, the cat leaped off the table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a c is used instead of a k, even if it makes more sense for cat to be spelled kat. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But I think that if Cheddar has his way, the cat will never set foot on anything but carpet for the rest of his life. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It made him uneasy just to look at her and that white cat; he was about to close the door and tiptoe softly back down the stairs when she spoke. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not one to stand on ceremony, the cat killed each bird with one crunch, ate it with two bites, digested it with three swallows, burped out four feathers, and leaped to catch another. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead dogs, cats and rats cluttered the roadside, or floated starkly on the waters with blown distended bellies. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept coming, straight for her, chasing the cat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t in the mood for more cat and mouse games. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Also sharing our home it & cat named Chester, whom I am pleased to call my friend. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to see this one, Carla. It’s bad. The cat dies.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like you did. I walked,” said the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table, the pound of meat for the cat in the kitchen—all of these created the impression that we’d left in a hurry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They fought it out together, for three minutes, like a couple of wild cats, and the horses galloping to glory. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At least they don’t know I’m also the girl whose grandfather’s soul lives in her cat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon, a cat again, was dipping his paw in it, too, but he backed away when Will came near. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are cats with colored veins and arteries, and frogs the same. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran around in front of him and laid down in the trail, acting like a cat ready to spring. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to make this sculpture so badly, you will risk your young life by sharing space with a disease-carrying cat?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that I might be able to push the cat through the torn window screen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something like fear or, indecision crept into the bear’s eyes as the cat advanced; she shuffled back a step with lowered head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s disappointed when it arrives, because the cat is definitely rancid, you can smell it even through the formaldehyde. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment a second cat—Hazel’s tabby—came round the further end of the farmhouse and made toward them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staying dry in the pouring rain is one of those cat tricks I’ll never figure out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The black cat sprang out of Belet's arms and onto the marble stairs to join his half a dozen or so companions on the landing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Turns out nobody knows for sure why cats purr. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There are all manner of more familiar animals as well, cats affectionate and aloof, dogs noble and cowardly, wolves and foxes, eagles and bears. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Michaels a good cat but he tries so hard to keep it real that he can seem full of negativity” Blaine had said when she first met Michael. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like to have my dogs tree the big cats, for their fur wasn’t any good, and all I could expect was two cut-up hounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am destined to see you only by accident,” she said, shoving the cat off the chair beside her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another cat watched me from within, its big green eyes shining in the gloom. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll not forget all your help, wretched cat,” I muttered as I knelt in the squash patch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mentioned old memories, the cat that had died, the store, the place where he lived. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he landed at the base of the three-story cat tower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

More hissing, scuffling, and feral moans—like giant alley cats fighting. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When it had gone past, he crossed the road, keeping his eyes on the spot where the cat had been investigating. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

June, Nora, and Pez all emerge disheveled from their suite looking like the cats that caught the canaries, but it’s impossible to tell who is a cat and who is a canary. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At that moment, the cat crept through the door and wound herself between Albert’s legs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have a fair fight,” he explained officially to Hungry Joe and the cat after he had carried them both outside, still holding them apart by the scruffs of their necks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When Angel woke up, the cat was missing again, and she could hear Jordan’s boots as he walked around the apartment. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as she lumbered snarling towards him the cat distracted her attention with a sudden leap to the side of the track. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a blow of its paw, the cat knocked the rat into the air, and caught it in its mouth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Aunt Heidi’s cat, I see as my eyes adjust, is jet black. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Lucky,” Theresa said, “that my cats are in a box.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a crystal cat, no bigger than his thumb. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re the expert on these things,” said the cat dryly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

So what if he had to kill the cat too? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, a car comes to life, soft and quiet like the purr of a cat, then fades away into the distance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cat Mr. Klaus prowled the hallways of the Blixen Arms, peeing on the residents' doors and vomiting in the stairwells. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Junior, cat’s got your tongue? What do you think your mother will say, when I tell her her children didn’t want to see her?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The half-wolf sled dogs became frantic with bloodlust whenever the cat ambled by over head. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A child cried for cats left behind in the barn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I watched one of the cats swatting a moth that was flitting around the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

‘What kind of cat is it got her tongue? She walk around and don’t say a word. She not even greedy like she used to be. She getting to be a regular lady these days.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he puts the cat down on the sand, and while the cat does figure eights around his ankles, Henry lets out a sound like a giant with a toothache. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“He sounds like a strangled cat,” I say. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For no apparent reason a cat’s fur may rise on its back as it peers into a dark closet, just as you or I may get goose bumps from phantoms we neither see nor hear. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patient as a heavy stone or a mother cat with kittens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No, no, I was only going to ask you if she likes cats, that’s all.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His dark lashes flutter just once before his pupils freeze like a cat in the street. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A tidy bit of a house on the heath where she lives alone with her cat. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Even though we say they were our cats, we had no real claim to them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Great cats, leopards and such," said the Hermit impatiently. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Adam looked like the cat that had caught the canary. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve got felt cat ears duct taped to my hoodie, and a tail pinned to the butt of my jeans, and kids I don’t know are giving me smiles in the hallways. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The neighbor’s cat is climbing awkwardly on a high branch, its claws gripping the wood as if it’s petrified. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He approached cautiously and saw that it was Blanca, who was letting her legs out the window and slipping down the wall like a cat, falling noiselessly onto the hydrangeas below. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit up and we stay put for a little while, entwined like a set of cats. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We’d have a setter dog and a couple stripe cats, but you gotta watch out them cats don’t get the little rabbits.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing could shake her confidence, even though there had been no word of her cat since he had left the Nurmis’ so long ago and so many miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put on her cat ears, felt them settle like a hand on her head. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Angel, too terrified to tell and too frightened not to, clung to her cat and wept. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They did Cats last year. I’m going borrow a good cat mask for Bastet.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He won’t look at me, he looks down at the floor, w here the cat is rubbing itself against his legs, mewing and mewing plaintively. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I'm allergic to cat dander and I'd like to buy a banana or something. Don't you think that's grounds for a lawsuit?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So he suggested a cat instead, “the bonniest little cat ye ever did see.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The cat didn’t even have a name, which was fine with Curly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of Dympna’s planes were requisitioned by the Air Ministry for communications, and she was mad as a cat about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

An elephant, a dog, a cat, and a mouse grinned at me on-screen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cat still paused by the gate, one paw lifted delicately in the air—undecided, questioning, hesitant; until suddenly, some inner decision reached, he followed the dogs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled back the soiled blanket and set the cat on the clean sheet underneath. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Finn asked, bending down to pet the cat. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And whenever the cat was given a fish-head to eat, the barn would smell of fish. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dursley gave himself a little shake and put the cat out of his mind. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lydia had the sense to bring her notebook with her, but she isn’t drawing any cats. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“A lot of people would like to live there, but they’re as fussy as cats.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then I come across the remains of a cat. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Angel squeezed the cat so hard that she burped! Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said he was going to have to say something to me, because if I caught that cat one more time, it would drive her out of her mind. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie was real funny, about cats that said funny things to dogs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Most cats will do anything if you ask them nicely,” Poppet says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I suppose. But if you’re the same cat I saw at home, how can you talk?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

"We passed two," Ebben said, "or what the cats had left of them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked like a cat eyeing its prey. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I lured those fool cats right to me and into those infernal sacks. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Scipio's outburst the kitchen fell so silent they could all hear the mewing of cats outside in the garden. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just take care of your cat. Or dog. Whatever it is.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was like hugging a bag of cats. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She wants something to love, I think,” said the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Jordan, for the breakfast, but I’m not very hungry. Where’s my cat?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, fool, the pet store. Ali—cats. They play with yarn." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She went back to the cat, bent down, and picked it up. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s odd,” she thought, “now where would he take them? That cat must have knocked the paperweight off last night—the rest of the note must be somewhere in the room.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has el gato—the cat—still got your tongue?” inquired the old man when Matt was at last brought back to the wheelchair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cats and dog drank from the toilets, having despaired of getting their water bowls filled every morning, and everyone in the family talked to one another at the top of their lungs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now all they needed was some black cats and broken mirrors. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“This cat — Crookshanks, did you call him? — told me Peter had left blood on the sheets....I supposed he bit himself.... Well, faking his own death had worked once....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, Hanako had leaned against her family, thinking not about them or where they were going but about her cat, Sadie, whom they would be leaving with a neighbor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the r after the s, that’s one you have to roll on your tongue, like a cat’s purr. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, look what the bloody cat dragged in,” she says wryly when I walk through the door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Miss Love must have felt like a cat cornered by a pack of dogs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We don’t keep records of cats,” said the woman. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The cat had already been slipped into the house. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

You shied away from nothing, fell into a thorn-bush and frightened a cat as badly as it frightened you. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Maya even tells her about the Thanksgiving cat thing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I was trapped, sir, and she set me free. She saved me from the cat.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted round like lightning, all wet and slimy as he was, wriggling like an eel, biting and scratching like a cat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I love this bit,” said the cat, happily. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, look at this,” Connor says, and holds up an embroidered sweater with three cats on it, something an old lady would wear. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t favor him. He thinks he’s the cat’s pajamas. Too good for the daughter of a man who don’t even own his own boat.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still he told Theresa, “I don’t ever want to see the cats outside.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mixture of cat food, the outdoors, and litter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was silly of them, because lions, like cats, love to chase running, fast-moving things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and his mother got along like two cats with their tails tied together. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her house stinks of turpentine and urine from all her cats. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the thing with the cat. Archie. It’s got her upset. Also, her lungs are swampy.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s my nickname, Cat. Had it all my life. They say my old lady must of been scared by a cat when she was having me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I could find was an ancient chamber pot that had been the drinking bowl for the cat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I would have guessed it was rough, like a cat’s, but it wasn’t; it was smooth. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Not with them but not far behind came the tabby cat. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not a cat? An animal with some panache? Some pizzazz? Some dignity?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My cat isn’t getting better even though I’ve done everything right,” I explained. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tobacco, naturally: a good deal of cat and rather less dog and then, suddenly and beyond doubt, rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a collie and a house cat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dicey dusted the row of china cats on top of the bookcase. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The cat lowered its tail, swishing it from side to side angrily. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved like an injured cat, but one that could still claw and bite. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I knew that if it hadn’t been for their loyalty and unselfish courage I would have probably been killed by the slashing claws of the devil cat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat wound himself around Beetle’s ankle and purred. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family cat had attacked the cocker spaniel that lived across the street, and now it seemed as if one of the spaniel’s eyes might be seriously damaged. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my knowledge, no other cat or dog in Coalwood had ever been neutered before. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was toying with us, like a cat toys with its prey just before the kill. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Angie does this thing I’ve seen her do when she smiles and looks just like a cat about to catch a big bird. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And it was bad, because when I’d lead her to the new rooms—a cat stable, a karaoke chapel—I could tell she was a little restless. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d killed the cat, carried the girl to the doctor, and set her up for the twenty-one days of rabies shots. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dell had picked up the cat after reading a notice online about a lost pet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Not like a small house cat, but like the kind of cat you'd find prowling the Serengeti. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The cat changed direction, and the boys tore after it, doubled back toward the hives, straight into the path of the flying honeycomb. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The monkey fell on his paws, facing the cat, and the cat arched her back, tail raised high, and stood sideways on, hissing, challenging, spitting. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the ruins above them, cats are howling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s no wind but the leaves are in motion, there’s a ripple, as of unseen cats, or as if the leaves are moving by themselves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang up, ran, and went up the ladder like a cat. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He heard the shouts of guards, and then the roaring of a great cat, the trumpet of an elephant. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ghostlike, Mrs. Dalton moved noiselessly down the steps until she came to Mr. Dalton’s side, the big white cat following her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The cat’s name is Archie. Can you check your records or something?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I stand in the room, letting the pupils of my eyes dilate, like a cat’s or owl’s. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Meggie had only the ginger cat who sometimes came visiting when it couldn't be bothered to compete with the dogs on the farm next door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When something soft and furry moved around her ankles, she jumped, and saw it was the cat. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Magpie was watching her like a cat playing with a young and inexperienced mouse. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing for home that tears scalded his eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A scrawny gray cat that was living up under my porch.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Cabbages, rotten apples, and a dead cat were thrown in the direction of the traitor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember watching a TV program once about old-age homes that brought in cats and dogs to cheer the elderly and dying patients. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over two hundred miles now lay behind them, and as a group they were whole and intact, but of the three only the cat remained unscathed. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom door opened, and her little sister walked in, carrying the cat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Bertha almost never got mad about anything more than a cat bringing a mouse inside, so it was a bit of a shock to hear her yelling like that. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The gulls on their wooden stilts at the tip of the bar miaowed like cats. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sorry!” he breathed, looking at Flatnose as anxiously as a bird obliged to get close to a hungry cat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On it, there’s a cat food bowl with dried stuff in it, and drapey cobwebs up in the corners, and a fat spider that has zero fear of being evicted. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lena led Kendra to the basement door, pointing out a second little door at the base, about the size a cat would use. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The faces of the little cats were human and female. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She climbed quick and quiet as a cat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Tell that to the guy that owned this cat,” Mr. Sloat said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What are you hurting this cat for?” he demanded, and they couldn’t answer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the characteristics that distinguishes big cats from small cats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of those times when she wished she were sitting in a big black leather armchair with a weird-looking cat and an unlit cigar. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Off in the darkness a shadowgat screamed in fury, its voice bouncing off the rocks so it seemed as though a dozen other 'cats were giving answer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He saw a white bear and one of the great jungle cats from the Southern Colonies crouching in the eaves, its teeth bared. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mistress Cutler watched Lyddie like a barn cat on a sparrow, but Lyddie was determined not to give her cause for complaint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a secret weapon! Holy cats! Send a message to the Queen at once! The country must be warned! And give me my telescope.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Your son is more important than your cat." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sir Fig Newton had the silent cat killer, and my only proof had melted into extinction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mommy ignored them all, unless the insults threatened her children, at which time she would turn and fight back like an alley cat, hissing, angry, and fearless. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth was Master Lockton, looking like a cat who had just swallowed the last bite of a juicy mouse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jenny pulled the van into a slanted parking spot in front of a very modern-looking building with giant silhouettes of a dog and cat flanking a heart on its tallest wall. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“They bicker like cats in a bag, worried they’re not getting enough attention. If only I’d known you were coming along, I would have waited.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Liyana and Poppy sat silently in the backyard while their gray cat, Sami, leaped down from the top of the wooden fence to bury his nose in the grass. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I saw a cat slide through the connection leading to the big top—it was a panther, and as its lithe black body disappeared into the canvas tunnel I braced myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The cat regarded him distantly, then stalked away, leaving the carcass; but to the terrier it was a disappointing mess of feathers only. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday was still sitting on the sofa, sipping his coffee, stroking the gray cat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Down here—behind this window—lurks the little landlady with her cats. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His head was large and round, displaying for­midable sideburns, a stylish goatee and some of the finest whiskers of the cat world, thick, long and white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And besides, the cat is not the problem; Dad not knowing he exists is merely a symptom of what’s wrong with this family.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished, I caught about ten of her cats, dipped their feet in the can of gold paint, and chased them around in the empty room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s eyes fell on a figure with the shape of a cat. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like an old cat, she slept more and more, some days awakening only to move into a new patch of sun and fall asleep again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At her order, I fetched the vacuum cleaner for her and she ran it underneath the window to make certain she got the tiniest shards, this so the cats wouldn’t get them in their paws. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Call my dad. Or the vet. They’ll tell you. Fig has the silent cat killer.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The cat stirs, stretches, and then curls herself back into a ball. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The cat’s eyes really are like eyes, but not the eyes of cats. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put Bod into the back of the car, where Mo Quilling sat, with the smile on her face of a cat who has eaten all the canaries. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The corners were choked with dust and it smelled like a whole metropolis of mice had lived and bred there, probably until the cats got wise and moved in before moving on, but no snakes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They loved cats and had a habit of meowing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She gathered the cats, and there were plenty of them, and then she held long and detailed conversations with them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clotheshorse collapsed under the weight of the stupid beast, sending angry cat and white linen into the red dust. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Watch for me, little cat," her fa-ther would always tell her, when he rode off to court or fair or battle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cat remained on his branch and the dog remained on the ground, as if neither wanted to yield to the other. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"How many cats does your mom have, exactly?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He wondered who the fat cat in the green cap was who was suddenly all over town. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation of a cat brushing past his legs is so genuine that he looks down expecting to see it, but there is nothing on the floor of the tent but more jars and bottles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I never knew that a purring cat feels like a mini version of Henry’s generator. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She took one cat to each house along the street, leaving Call and me to mind the sacks, slightly out of sight. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like I should have thought to myself, Wow, a cat is talking to me, and that is not something that usually happens at a highway rest stop. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cat daintily picked up his breakfast and made for the stairs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Correct: Two years ago, Whiskers was the first cat to google on his own smartphone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if you ever need to defend yourself physically, try to be like my cat Daisy.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The door creaked open and the cat slipped between the doorpost and the door and padded across the room, then up on the windowsill. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Finally she said, “Crenshaw would be a good name for a cat, I think.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One of them says we look like something the cat brought in and Malachy has to be held back from fighting them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then we could get a dog, a cat, and a parakeet. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I said, what we really wanted was a cat.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have a feeling those cats would claw that man’s mustache off if Mrs. Franklin told them to. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Cilia was setting the table, and Isannah playing with the cat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego’s deadpan delivery was so good that I didn’t know whether he was telling the truth, and I busted up laughing at the image of grumpy cats in ugly sweaters. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was opening and shutting his mouth and licking his lips, much as a cat does when something disgusts it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat seemed uninterested in him as a possible food source. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“There’s just something in me that doesn’t trust a cat,” he muttered. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Alyce,” whispered Beetle, surrounded by boys and abandoned by the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him in a blubbering tone commence the tale of how “that nasty Jane Eyre” had flown at him like a mad cat: he was stopped rather harshly— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Casini,” Mary began and then she stopped for she saw what the cat was doing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded Hazel of the cat in the yard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one who says she’s your other mother,” said the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As far as Harry could see through the darkness, there wasn’t a living creature in sight, not even a cat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The cat ignored me and pounced on a sluggish beetle that lumbered under a leaf. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old lady with a shopping cart full of cat food and three tennis rackets. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I give Mango an extra cat treat, grab my book bag, and head out to the bus stop. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The cat sprang from the arms of the sleepy little Indian boy and ran towards the old dog, who was already on his feet, blinking and peering around rather confusedly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards they rested in the deep pine needles under the trees, the terrier panting heavily with his eyes half closed, and the cat busy with his eternal washing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands felt for the cupboard door and lugged out the supersized bag of cat food. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“That could not have been less helpful to our present situation,” said Enoch, “were it a story about cats on the moon.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to mope around the kitchen without being put to work. See those kidneys on the counter? Cook them up for the cats.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact: the cat beloved of some family, the farmer’s cattle, the rabbit in the field, and the horned lark out of the sky. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She winked at me, then got up on her knees and worked her hands forward like a cat stretching until she was all the way down on my bed.Click. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This was the last blow struck, for the wounded cat made off across the yard and disappeared under the fence of the cow byre. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being as how it’s your birthday, I and the boys thought we would wish you happy birthday and we got twenty-one cats for you for a present.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded like a cat, moving through the night. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Good, good. Perhaps you'd best change before you come to the table. You look like a drowned cat." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I'd been so exhausted, I barely remembered the journey from the hospital, being greeted by the cats, and Belet showing me to this bedroom, which looked like it had come straight out of Vogue. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, sixteen snarling cats were more than enough. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like something the cat dragged in.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead sat the fat black mother cat enjoying the warm sun on her fat black back, licking a paw as if there were cake batter on it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A security guard, seeing the cat, did what any sensible black person would do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask any questions about those two cats, just made sure I wasn’t the third, because Herman was a big, mean, irritated, angry, butt-kicking dude. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked cats and bugs and would be thrilled to see a gator. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Close behind, Pipkin fidgeted and Hazel, never taking his eyes from the cat, could sense that he was trembling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kuda let go of the cat, which had roused itself enough to twitch the tip of its tail. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she rubbed me all over with some liniment that burned like fire and smelled like a civet cat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty we too closed the door behind us; Moortje, my cat, was the only living creature I said goodbye to. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As they rounded the piles, the domovoi appeared as a cat, strolling by her leg without looking at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wheeler looked at the picture of the two cats. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She froze, then slowly looked over her shoulder and saw that a big cat, probably a leopard, had jumped out of the tree and was on the path behind her. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Sherry was at the door with another cat, this one trailed by a bunch of bleary kittens. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that on these expeditions we often get very hungry, and if there is a stowaway available he is the first to be eaten?” he warned, ignoring the cat purring at his feet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I also like cheetahs and cats and dogs and snakes and rats and manatees. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cat was ambling into the backyard from the weed field beyond. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the hall she remembered the gray cat and looked around anxiously, but it was nowhere to be seen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A stray cat trotted away from a torn-open trash bag, but otherwise the street was empty. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I tell David about the fox I saw with a gray body and a red head, and he tells me about his aunt’s Siamese cat that yowls just for the pure joy of making noise. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She isn’t expected to take care of a passel of kids, as she was at one of the places she lived, or clean up after fifteen dirty cats, as she was at another. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Wished there was some way a boy could turn into a cat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A car resembling a pouncing cat, with glowing green eyeballs for headlights, had just eased off the highway and pulled into the parking lot. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then she says she worries about my cat, because of the chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes are a strange yellow, like a cat’s. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The cat seemed unimpressed: she arched her back, raising herself, forcing Thor to stretch up as far as he could. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At first even the cook's huge fat kitchen cat had been able to elude her, but Syrio had kept her at it day and night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You really think those cats would let us get shipped off down south?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For some reason this seemed to annoy Hermione as well; she didn’t say anything, but she kept looking darkly at the broom as though it too had been criticizing her cat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Luke found the cat, who was hiding under our bed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selena looked at me like a cat eyeing its prey, then walked off, her long skirt sweeping the floor. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It put Beetle in mind of the time she got the cat out of the bag. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It may go away. I saw a man once—bartender—he had one that looked like a cat. It was a birthmark. His nickname was Cat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the cat relax ever so slightly in her arms. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Leave her! Come on!” she shouted to the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The night guard, an ancient Irish cat with a wooden cane, was staring intently at one of those seven-day medicine holders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

At random across the page were drawn little round, seated cats with long curved lines for tails. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wore my old hey-diddle-diddle pajamas—cats played fiddles, dishes ran away with spoons. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reminds me of when I was eight, watching my cat have kittens. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Come on. I’ll show you our one-eyed cat before you have to go.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“What can you expect, when you take one’s breath away, creeping in like a burglar, and letting cats out of bags like that? Get up, you ridiculous boy, and tell me all about it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pig is a graft between a rat, a cat and a dog, Mr. Muhammad taught us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were thinking of all the funny little animals, stray cats and dogs and things, she had always wanted to bring in and keep. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They include cat scratch fever from our cats, leptospirosis from our dogs, psittacosis from our chickens and parrots, and brucellosis from our cattle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dog that tries to make itself pleasant to a cat may very well get scratched for its pains. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat survived, because Geraldine was seldom away from home, and could effectively soothe the animal when Junior abused him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He intimidated all of us: parents, children, dogs, cats. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She put the suitcase down on its side and opened it slowly; then she reached into the suitcase and pulled out a black cat and put him down on the ground. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a cat,” Marisol said, brushing off a piece of grass stuck to the bottom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But as the yellow eyes got closer, George could see the outline of a huge cat, with two glistening fangs. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Postscript: H—Bring warm clothes and a cat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put in my name, my e-mail address, my age, and my type of synesthesia, and in the interests and hobbies section, I write “painting, music, being outdoors, and my cat.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Neil had gotten into her cat carrier believing she would eventually return to our apartment, and that tore me up. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And is it a cat that looks like a tiger, with the stripes? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He was a lover of pets and always had a dog or cat and usually a horse, and he would play with them by the hour, teaching them little tricks or romping with them.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They came and went, stray dogs and cats, their puppies and kittens, nonpoisonous snakes, and lizards and tortoises we caught in the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If five cats catch five rats in five minutes, how many cats will it require to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I spect she might have one of them faces like a cat that done ate a bird. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A man had put up the sign as a joke, poking fun at the missing cat and dog posters he often saw. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This morning, she woke up with that stupid cat curled up against her like it couldn't tell that she'd never liked him or cats in general. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“On average, the Hamlin County Animal Control has 1,000 dogs and cats waiting to be adopted, and the shelter can only hold 500.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But this cat had been upon them too quickly: Tucker couldn’t have escaped. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dressed the cat up in doll clothes, pulled her along the floor in a box, and even decorated her tail with ribbons. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat and the mouse had to make several trips back and forth between the drain pipe and the newsstand, carrying the money in their mouths. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like one of the cats off the block. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, whenever Elisabeth speaks, we pay no more attention than we do to the stray teacup cats. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"There," said the woman with the dark, curling hair, stretching like a cat, and smiling. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the time nobody knew what a cat she could be when cornered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The marmalade cat prodded him with an indolent paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he spied one of the cats up on the windowsill, he let out a bark. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My heart is thumping like a cat in a clothes dryer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A small brown cat nosed and sprang among the trashcans at the back of a building, and the light made even the garbage magical. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The letter went on to describe their five cats—one had only three legs, and they all had peculiar names. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The taunting, pinching village boys bedeviled the cat as they did her, but he, quicker and smarter than they, always escaped. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat fell to the ground, and the little shepherdess, as if she were astonished by her own act of violence, crumbled. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The farm cat was bewildered by the speed and fury of Bigwig’s charge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I crouch by the water to rinse the blood and cat saliva from my arms. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Finn burst out, because he saw the cat rubbing against Ms. Morales’s ankles and her high-heeled shoes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even his mother had told him once about a stray cat: “Don’t feed him, or he’ll keep coming back.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The cat leapt to the floor and out the bedroom door. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And with that the cat let the rat go. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Gran’s cat, Viper, made the cat Lucifer from the Cinderella movie look like an angel. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The girl sidles over like a cat and puts an arm around her legs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been away because our mother’s out of town on business, and we came back to check on our cat, and these kids were trapped down there,” Chess said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With a dawning lightheadedness, the feeling that he was dreaming but awake at the same time, he stood up and looked around for the cat, his guide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold-yellow lights of kerosene lamps flickered from behind windows and on verandahs of homes, like the eyes of hundreds of wild cats. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cat must have sensed this general failing, for he now walked steadily beside the dogs, very close to his tottering old friend, and uttered plaintive worried bleats. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry, generally, was clean as a cat, and I’d never even seen him take off his coat without hanging it up immediately. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As she spoke these last words she turned abruptly and looked at Dustfinger, who had followed them into the library, soundless as a prowling cat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless there’s a rustling, a rank undertone of cats and their huntings and furtive scratchings, still going on behind the deceptive tidiness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Loma’s got too many cats and talks ugly, and Mary Willis would worry me to death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was the youngest, not yet six in a class of seven-year-olds, but she flawlessly read cat, pan, bed in an accent that was like Olanna’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had been hunting gophers in the dark, and although the four cats were full of gopher meat, they sat in a semi-circle at the back door and mewed piteously for milk. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a cat beside her, to his astonishment: a large wildcat, as tall as his knee, fur on end, teeth bared, tail erect. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prudence laid down the quill with a long sigh, and plopping down on the hearth, dragged the limp drowsy cat into her arms. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In a few bounds, the cat scrambled up a tree. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s cold but sunny out, and Leah wears a black woolen hat with cat ears. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Got to do all we can to combat this cat killer until I’ve raised enough money.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Smiling, he inspected his fingernails like a satisfied cat examining its claws. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ralph shuddered at the thought of bloodthirsty cats stalking his innocent little brothers, sisters, and cousins. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Poppet asks once they have reached their car, a marmalade cat crawling onto her lap. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Brace admits that for the purposes of a cat, whatever they are, George is worthless. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said: "This is my cat, Cheddar. I thought you might like to meet him." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s like our performance, only with bigger cats,” Widget says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What is it we were doing....You thought you heard a cat a-meowing and wanted me to come see with you. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the decapitated rat, a smug expression on its face, was the black cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They were always getting scratched by cats, or cutting themselves shaving, or stumbling over footstools in the dark—reasonable explanations, certainly, but for sedentary people they had an odd excess of bruises and small wounds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Slam its tail in the door of the milk truck, and a stray cat could easily yowl out a single certain to top the charts back in Sparta or Thessaloniki. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cats ignored me as I padded barefoot along the marble corridors. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The bad cat was outside my window last night,” he informed Kevan at one point, “but Ser Pounce hissed at him and he ran off across the roofs.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remember a picture book with an owl, cat, and cow in a tub. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow an archaeologist’s wife ended up with this huge stone eye in her bedroom, and in the middle of the night it exploded and a big cat started biting the archaeologist’s wife’s neck. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Could it have been a cat, only a cat, from which he had fled as if it were a demon? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And I wished I was with them trying not to laugh, but I was too busy trying to imagine ways to pull the cat out of my mouth. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Money was greatly on his mind, though not as relentlessly as it had been earlier in the day—a day he’d begun “without the price of a cat’s miaow.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gran’s secret to no signs of feline life—no evidence of cat hair or litter—could earn her a fortune. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A little later, when the cat had curled up to sleep, Will took a cup of coffee and the green leather writing case, and sat on the balcony. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fingers of Kate’s right hand slowly curled around the palm while the left hand crept like a lean cat toward the edge of the desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Drove by and saw a rabid cat attacking a little colored girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But my daughter’s eyes and her smile become very narrow, the way a cat pulls itself small just before it bites. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were noisy in the dawn and the ranch cats came down from the hill like blunt snakes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat falls Like a paper sack Of fruit. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Helena told her we did have a cat, all smiles, but Max decided it was going to be impossible to be quiet enough. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Why would I want to take care of a dumb cat?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Some people have stone cats on their roofs; on his roof Archie Brubaker had a skeleton of Monroe, his deceased Siamese. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Mack,” he had asked, “why all tom cats?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would learn everything possible about lost cats and Vietnam. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure that’s a giraffe? I was thinking more along the lines of a deformed cat.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“What in the world were you two thinking? Fighting like street cats!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It just did what it wanted, like a giant cat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The yellow cat inched warily from beneath a pumpkin vine. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Beto scratched the cat under its chin and pressed his fingers gently against the soft pad of one small foot. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon’s it let me go I forgot all that nonsense ’bout mice and cats and I tried to light out for the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The cat dropped the branch and came after him, like a shadow with glowing eyes. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her underarms were rough like a cat’s tongue. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Hazel, there’s a cat in the yard outside!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women sounded like a flock of mynah birds as they recounted tales of dogs, cats, budgies and horses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something like a hungry cat when somebody approaches her pan with meat. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’d rather be in charge of teaching cats to play hockey. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“C’mon and show some love for this brave little girl and her cat,” the pastor said, ushering me off the stage. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He crawled over more bones, small ones that came from cats and bits of birds. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I hope you don't mind me calling you back to court. Though the king says I'm behaving like a finicky cat, and I should be embarrassed." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His dæmon was a long-legged tawny cat spotted with black, and she drew back her teeth and prepared to spring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A lean cat stalked the gutter and fled as they approached; turned to watch them, with yellow, malevolent eyes, from the ambush of a garbage can. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Kids, at school, whisper Max once set a cat on fire. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“With her cats. There’s always a cat or so around. People say she’s a witch.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And then his mother, sprinkling salt on a baked potato, said ever so casually, “You don’t happen to know anyone looking for a lost cat, do you?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I put a Post-it into each of the invitations that had a cat's paw mark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the supermarket I can feed a cat thirty-two dinners from one of thirty-two tins, but I can never find a single fish I like, never a single.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were making him look very big except for one boy who drew a cat that filled up the whole paper and then added a tiny mouse down in one corner. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

This meant hat he must watch the front door like a cat watching a mouse’s hole; he dared not h ave his post for a moment. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He dozed lightly, as cats do, swinging his tail from time to time to show he was keeping an eye on us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Up over the hump of the cat’s back she looked. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost always hungry, but that skillful hunter the cat kept him provided with food which, while scarcely ever satisfying, was adequate by his new standard of living. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while I picked up the cat and carried her around with me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an eerie voice sounded, halfway between a house cat and something wilder. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I feel the weight of Lucy’s cat, Riot, settle in on top of my feet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I get restless at night—like an alley cat, I guess.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told me about her lazy old cat; I told her about our lazy old dog. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

An hour or two later the purring cat joined them, carelessly dropping another succulent morsel by his old friend’s nose. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I know you didn’t want me to, but I got the cat purse.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The cat was heavy but not too heavy to carry. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The two Muppets repeat “cat” a few times and then the word drops from sight, accompanied by a crashing sound. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you adopted?” she suddenly asked, which startled me, and I jumped into the air like a crazed cat. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And on the other end of the sofa, their older sister, Vivienne, stared at the television screen, her eerie, split-pupiled gaze fixed on the cartoon mouse as it ran from the cartoon cat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I'm half asleep, dreaming a cat is in the other room, mewing for milk, and I'm still thinking about that cat when something tugs me. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Son, I ever tell you about this cat named Willie I played with in Italy? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She was trying hard to pull the devil cat’s fangs from the throat of Old Dan. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, at the age of seven, the fourth cat was diagnosed with feline leukemia, my mother was devastated. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It reduced the island’s cat population by at least two-thirds. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat walked over to Nabila, brushed herself against her, and purred. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“No sorry needed. It will torture her to know she’s doomed. So what about the black cat phone number? Any progress?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A cat had settled on the wooden bench. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The cats keep the rats down, I know, but that one ... he’s been known to attack ravens in the rookery.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At Gachet’s, Vincent takes his godson around the yard, introducing him to the eight cats, three dogs, hens, rabbits, ducks, and pigeons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But when I say ‘Jesus,’ I’m talking about a guy who walked the earth for thirty- three years like any other guy but caught the imagination of some PR cats. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched low to the ground, tensed and ready, and uttered a high, ear-splitting scream; and, as the startled cub turned, the cat sprang. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rocket! Don’t play with electrical cords,” Finn said, reaching for the cat. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then, one day not long after Ken and Toby returned to the land of Egypt, a neighbor’s cat got into the Chungs’ apartment and killed Petey the parakeet—the only pet Elizabeth had ever owned. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better the car, though, than the house, which he now understood to be Theresa’s house, full of cat odors and cat hairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chippy, the carpenter’s cat, had to be shot, because without the protection of the ship the dogs would have eaten him. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Then the Labrador walked up to the cat, who rose on his hind legs, placing black forepaws on the neck of the great dog who towered above him, gently questing at the torn ear. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The article said to visit the vet right away if your cat shows any symptoms,” I said, my words tumbling out high-pitched and shaky. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The fire crackled and the cat appeared from behind the piano on the other side of the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He laughed and said, “Bums them white cats up when you get yourself something. Yeah, I told them I was going to get me one—just to bug them. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a cat behind you,” said the Wart calmly, “or a pinemarten. Look.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry always got a soft feeling in his heart, like the purring of a little cat, when he looked at his sister. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The head differed only from an ordinary cat in that it was framed in a ruff of hair, and the ears rose into tufted points. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede toys with her like a cat playing with her food before lashing out again with her fist. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to come home one day to find Finn and this girl licking each other like cats. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he slept, which was seldom, it was a quick “cat nap” high in the thick branches of evergreens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came to the big cats, our tigers, lions and leopards. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa said: “Oh, Mother, I’m so glad you’re back. He’s been having nightmares and shouting about monsters and cats; and when I talk to him, he doesn’t hear me at all.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The horn and hoof showdown was less a showdown than a show: steers and heifers, sheep and goats, even dogs and cats displayed and judged in tents around the fairgrounds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He stretches in the sun, I feel the ripple of muscles go along him, like a cat’s back arching. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a cat pouncing on a mouse. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Keep cool, homeboy, and come back tomorrow. Some of the cats will turn you up a slave.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smell came to my nose, a musky smell of urine, quite sharp, what every cat cage in a zoo smells of. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it was as different from the ordinary domestic cat as the Siamese himself was different. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cathy who is queen of cats has cats and cats and cats. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dealt mainly in cats, and no one had ever suggested money could be made by breeding Jesse James or Bat Masterson. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She pressed her cat face into his neck. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He gave up; the false cat had ceased functioning, so evidently the short—if that was what ailed the thing—had finished off the power supply and basic drive-train. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then she took a big roast chicken out of the oven and said, “There! Now if I can keep the cats out of here, we’re all set.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The article’s only advice was to visit the vet immediately if your cat showed any of the symptoms. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Any dogs would probably be chained, but the cats would be loose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down on one of her grandmother’s uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

This stripy sad cat is maybe how he feels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Anansi pointed at a pile of leaves beneath the tree, and when Leopard prowled over them, the great cat fell into a hidden trap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The smaller re-wilded breeds that people were living on, hamsters and cats, hadn’t herded this far into the bush yet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was walking so fast, he almost tripped over the cat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When she put the fights on, the cat was gone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s this cute cat that waves its left paw up and down. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The house you just left,” agreed the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

An altered female dog or cat is spayed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then people began abandoning farming communities in California’s Central Valley, when it became the Pacific Dust Bowl, overcrowding the already overcrowded cities, like the big cats abandoning the dry hills. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then the even more important cat was let out of the bag: since the middle of the summer Rosy had had evidence for a new three-dimensional form of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We stacked the filled supers onto the truck like the cat had our tongues, and neither of us said a word till we were back in the honey truck passing the city- limits sign. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a coin, but a little disc of bronze with a crudely engraved inscription showing a cat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and saw a large black mother cat, her teats pink and sagging, slinking into the coal shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this cat was always being fed—and at the time, we were hungry a lot, so I was always kind of mad at this cat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of life in the cat; he fought well until Calvin hollered the dogs away and shot it again, and once more, and then it was still. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to the kitchen and back could not have taken more than two minutes, yet in that time I tramped through swampy cemeteries, climbed over dusty gravestones and eluded litters of night-black cats. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under a corner of the cabin, on a pile of soft grass, the great yellow cat curled protectively around four tiny balls of fluff. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He had known that fox since it had been a cub, and the cat had prowled through the graveyard for as long as Bod could remember. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She kicked the cat out of the bed, just to be mean. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Calling cats,” it confided, “tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I think I need to visit with my former Sisters. The cat’s away. And the mice shall play. And there is much that a mouse can do, after all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Once he glimpsed a moving shadow near an alleyway and sped faster, telling himself forcefully that it was a cat. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She had a sudden vision of Mrs. Borkowski sitting in her lawn chair in the middle of the street with a cat in her lap. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The cat leaped on to an overhanding rock, and as the hollow, raucous howl went ringing back and forth again the dogs turned questioningly, their eyes straining to seek the reality of the call. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, plants. I’m feeding their plants. I fed somebody’s cat last week.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hardly big enough so a cat could slip through, and under it is this big pile of coal slagged up against the foundation wall. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I tell you it's strange, Jake. When I'm like this I just want to be alone. I want to stay in my own room. I'm like a cat." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the discus that scared the cat away. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The great cat had marked Rumpy as his prey long ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had said that my father was allergic to pet hair, which was why I couldn't have a dog or a cat or even a pygmy goat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The caterpillar was covered in dense fur that looked as plush and inviting as a cat’s pelt, but I knew better than to stroke it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, it’s kind of like a lost cat ad, except the cat’s actually a cute boy you met at the post office. But a human cute boy. Not a literal cat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Smarter than pigs, cats, and dragons all rolled together,” he said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The producers would bring in a cat or an anteater or an otter and show it and let it cavort around,” Palmer says. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded more like a bike tire losing air than an angry cat. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t so much as a dog or a cat around to keep him company. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then Loretta wakes up and stretches like a cat, yawning so you can practically see right down her throat, and she says, "I guess I needed that." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Atlas told his servants to take the kittens away. Maybe they destroyed the cats and they were reborn in Tartarus? I don’t know.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Norton clarified, his eyes beginning to get mean and sneaky like an alley cat about to jump on a bird. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s intoxicated and furious and not all that well trained, but he’s one of the Folk, born with their cat reflexes and blessed with height that gives him better reach. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And, hard as she could, she threw the black cat toward the other mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“They were right in this room last night. The cat was here today. They know everything. They won’t give up. What we really ought to do is take him out tonight, under cover of darkness.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Good. If those cats ever come out of the house, you do just that.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I’m not even sure why Crenshaw was a cat, and not a dog or an alligator or a Tyrannosaurus rex with three heads. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A smoke- colored cat curled itself around my ankles, its tail in the shape of a question mark. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black blinked and looked down at the cat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sticky, who happened to consider himself a prime specimen of scaredy cat, moved on without comment. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. And if they’re all so frightened of cats, there wouldn’t be many in this world anyway. She probably couldn’t find her way back.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Alyce, too, listened, so that she learned some letters as the cat learned. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much you flirt or carry on like a cool cat and roll up your skirt waistband on the bus, they still just think you’re L-7. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played “witch doctor” with the many odd-looking bones extracted from the rotting carcasses of dogs, cats and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey wasn’t paying any attention; he was petting the neighbor’s cat. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked deeper into the neighborhood, avoiding the puddles of dirty water that overflowed from the gutters and dodging the piles of garbage in which cats were digging like silent shadows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When something brushed against her leg, she almost jumped out of her skin, but it was only a cat, a ragged black tom with a chewed-off ear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They en-countered no one but a lone old crone, carrying a dead cat by the tail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And you say this fat cat travlin around with his momma?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like watching an old street pigeon pecking the crust of a sardine sandwich the cats left behind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge cat then took a few sniffs and found the whole place not very satisfying. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One day we were listening to a CD of a musician named Horace Silver, and Dad says, Josh, this cat is the real deal. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

But just like this deaf cat Sugar who fell nineteen stories and lived, without a scratch, I was starting to believe that Fig and I would survive this crummy silent cat killer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The cat is in good hands,” said Granny. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A door on the ground floor opened up to a skinny backyard, where a mommy cat and her new litter of kittens made their home under a hydrangea bush. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The cat, Dragon, also knew of its existence, so she had to look sharply when she came out. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They looked up like slanting cat’s eyes at the moldy bison head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, they ought to, ’cause this cat is so hip, when he sits down he’s still standing, he says. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Mice in cages, so the cats wouldn’t get them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shay and Jessica stare at us like two cats watching birds in a cage. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The man, who was trained and fit and hard, could have dealt with Will, but the cat was in the way, and as the man tried to move back, he tripped over her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave the drum away to a little cousin, throwing the ghost cat into the bargain. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You choose,” Theresa told the girls; which was how the cats became Barbie and Ken, even though they were both girls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it true that all cats are gray when the candles are out? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I used to have a black cat just like you, but he died last year. He was very old.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s skin and bone! You keep that cat away from him!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

For a while the firm Gies & Co. had two cats: one for the warehouse and one for the attic. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This did not prevent his reading, of course, since as you know, cats can see in the dark. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

No cars traveled the roads, no creatures howled or sniffed or chuffed, and the wind, a constant in the cornfields of Illinois, pulled in on itself and snoozed like a cat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Colored people, apparently, were no more progressive than black people on the issue of cats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The breeze she gets on rainy evenings charms her, and she’s taken a liking to her neighbor’s cat, Chloe, that wanders the halls and is scared of mice. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

DeeDee was eyeing us like an envious cat over the rim of her teacup. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

All that time the cat had slept on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In no time at all, they reached the prairie, where the wild cats and the chickens had free range and chased each other back and forth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the swirls he’d written names and painted what looked like animals: a large cat, tropical birds, an elephant. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Their hearts and consciences might be as hard as flint, but their pocketbooks were as sensitive as a cat’s whiskers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the great joke that I felt God had played on cats and dogs by making them lap their milk and water with their tongues. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It — it was just an ordinary cat, sir, like any cat.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

On the rez, you know every kid’s father, mother, grandparents, dog, cat, and shoe size. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rare farm in the Sheldon area that was blessed by the presence of a cat after the war on beetles was begun. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And something else too, something hidden deep that reminds me of the wild cat that reared her ginger kittens in the alley behind our house. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cat, a tabby with white chest and paws, was at the further end of the little yard, walking slowly and deliberately along the side of a pile of logs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloomberg just then stood up in her lap and, more like a dog than a cat, began to circle around to find a sleeping position he liked better. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She often wore her hair in cat’s ears, lots of piercings, lips, nose, eyebrows, tongue, her speech thick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And off she drifted just like the fog on little cat feet. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the devil cat of the Ozarks, the mountain lion. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, most of the debate club kids are already in their seats when I ease myself into the chair next to Lydia, who’s back to drawing cats. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’d hug me close and hold up the little cat, or whatever toy I seemed to be interested in, so I could touch it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She was looking up at a cat perched in a bay window when a voice she didn’t recognize said from behind, “Hello, Surly Wombat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His dæmon, a large cat with fur of a thousand beautiful autumnal colors, stalked the corners of the study before leaping gracefully to Coram’s lap. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This was impossible, as he toted the gangly cat with him everywhere, tucked into the bib of his overalls. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was nothing dreamlike in the way he moved forward now, alert as a cat, to the door. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Remember this is a girl who wept to save that awful old cat, Buttercup. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He twisted and turned his neck, like a waking cat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He began to stalk the empty streets, looking for small prey such as cats and dogs that strayed out of doors. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Which was like trying to keep a cat close. Quite impossible.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Shavepate’s eyes were black pools behind the brazen cat mask. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cat floated over me like a furry balloon. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cats, being cats, kept their opinions to themselves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bears and cats lived deeper in, perhaps disliking the sooty reek of our district. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The others could hear him swearing like a cat himself and struggling for a hold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black cat was sitting on the edge of the well outside the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She raised her arms over her head and stretched in that full-bodied way of cats. “jEpa!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know whose cat accidentally plays three seconds of Beethoven on the piano. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She too had heard everything—the bit about our cat, and Mom crying. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cat lay asleep on a big pile of oranges. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing she might have felt for a dog that had torn its paw, or a cat that had been gashed in a fight. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Well, to be accurate, cats enjoy playing with birds before killing them. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s no cat! Don’t you know what it is? Your mother—” He broke off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he was smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square glasses exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It doesn't seem like what a cat person would do. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was suggested that he start sessions with a cat psychiatrist to work out what the doctor called a case of sibling rivalry with Bunnicula. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her room smells like dryer sheets and cats. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The gleaming, golden eyes of a cat stared right at her in bed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Can one read a cat’s face, a seal’s, an otter’s? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean like a terrifying fisher-cat call. None of this sexy cat nonsense. I would never want that image in Coach Os head around me.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She also wondered whether cats could all talk where she came from and just chose not to, or whether they could only talk when they were here—wherever here was. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The kitchen cat, curled in his basket by the back door, stretched lazily as she unlatched the door and slipped outside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope the cat’s all right,” he muttered. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wishing I could see in the dark like a cat or something. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged the cat, who uttered a surprised mew, and released her with a rushed “Bye, kitty.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Gus and Bertha told my mama you were coming. They go to my church and I gave them a cat one time,” Howard said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Max sticks the shovel in the ground and hops light as a cat from the hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kat calls lots of things cute, including cats, football players, movie stars and skirts and babies. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried a broom to the privy, to swat the cat if it gave her any trouble. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old dog drank deeply, standing up to his chest in the cold water; the cat picked his way delicately to the edge of an overhanging rock. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still loved cats, cartoons, games, and hats. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We were here way before you, and we don’t like visitors none too much. Why are people runnin’ around here like cats anyway? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I dream that my blue cat’s eye is shining in the sky like the sun, or like the pictures of planets in our book on the solar system. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Micah leans close to me, tilts his head, and does his best impression of a grinning cat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The cat flicked her long tail, paused to get a scratch behind the ears, then waded back into the mist. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The old dog had his beloved cat, warm and purring between his paws, again, and he snored in deep contentment. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at Prim's knees, guarding her, is the world's ugliest cat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Please, sir, I’ve never seen a cat,” said the young rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pushed to the front of the crowd, his cold eyes alive, his usually bloodless face flushed, as he grinned at the sight of the hanging, immobile cat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I find a solitary cat’s eye marble rolling around at the back of the drawer, and some old dried-up chestnuts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These cats are obviously of Manx origin, and even interbreeding with tame cats they contribute taillessness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That old cat’s the one who should be in the asylum. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When he straightened up, feeling stiff, the cat raced away, spitting, and he stood there for a long time among the empty houses, waiting for his heartbeat to slow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But everybody else was grinning like Cheshire cats. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had once told me that a group of cats was called a clowder or a glaring. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were no cries—no spitting of a cat, no squealing of a rabbit—only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees shushed their quiet night song and Rodrigo, her neighbor’s cat, strolled by. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Kneazles have up to eight kittens in a Utter and can interbreed with cats. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are twice as big as any Manx cat I ever saw. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look hungry,” said Hazel to the cat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try to warn Jan and get key, look around office; also feed cat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The cat stayed staring at him from behind some bulrushes for a while, then raised his tail so that it alone was in sight and twitched the end, enjoying the dog’s silent frustration. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he saw no sign of the cat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I mean hot chocolate with marshmallows. You don’t put marshmallows in yours,” I quickly add as I pet the cat, who is now rubbing against the leg of the charpoy. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A marching band played an out- of-tune fight song that sounded like somebody hitting a bag of cats with a metal baseball bat. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I'll spell ‘cat’ and the teacher will give me a glittery little star so I can run home and show it off to you,” he'd grumble. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told the cat my name was Jackson. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s not your fault that you cannot pick up my housecat, Thor. It is a large cat, and you are a scrawny little fellow at best, compared to any of our giants.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“They must like him personally. I had a cat once that only bloomed when I fed him. Maybe it’s the same kind of thing.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cat stopped walking, sat down, and began to wash itself thoughtfully, apparently unaware of Coraline’s existence. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The cat clawed her face and chest in an effort to right itself, then leaped nimbly to the floor. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a rabbit, or a cat, or a groundhog. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Whether it’s natural or from years of practice, I don’t know, but there’s something in her manner of speaking that suggests a cat’s purr. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The old cat jumped four feet off the ground. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was staring at her cousin, thinking, “Will you just look at him smiling away? Still got pimples but thinks he’s the cat’s meow. Where does he get it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I do it all the time. Usually their butts. You can learn a lot about a cat by sniffing its butt. You want to sniff mine?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She cuffed the cat, which tried to scratch her, ears laid flat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only disturbance during the evening was the noise of a tremendous cat battle out in the yard. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think the cat knew she was playing war, though: I think she thought she was asleep in the sun. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have an extensive nonfiction section, which is sure to cover all kinds of cat health issues.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“If it was a cat, it was a tiger,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, my dad was the cat, with his own face in his own mouth biting his own tongue. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

No harm done if it’s a cat because it has four legs. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the cat would stand his ground, hissing back in response to her shouts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the alleyways became a stinking cesspool, swarming with flies the size of rats, and rats the size of cats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I hope you don't keep a cat in the house." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Lying on top of the weird, spiky shapes were several long, ginger cat hairs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’d seen how when a mouse gets grabbed up by a cat, it won’t fight or twitch or do nothing to try to get away. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A half-grown tortoiseshell cat leaped from the bunkhouse porch, galloped on stiff legs across the road, whirled and galloped back again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seats were big and soft like a sofa, and there was a little white cat in the back window whose eyes lit up when the car stopped or turned. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black cats crossed the road just to get away from her. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner cage two tom cats started an argument and the whole cageful commented with growls and arched backs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid beneath him then, like a cat squeezing under a gate. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor’s cat was at the window, staring in. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When he was growing up, his mother loved animals, and they always had cats and at least one dog. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Just because there were cats in the world did not mean there were not khefts, also. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As she reached the kennel the cat looked up and spat at her, keeping one paw pressed down on the rabbit’s neck. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feed the cat at the table,” said Mother, tugging me back to earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them would grab a cat or a poodle—the wolves sometimes taking pets as large as Labs and collies, not to mention livestock and now and then a human. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The fact is, my cat, Sir Fig Newton, a member of my family for almost six years, is sick. He has diabetes. And just like for people, there’s no cure.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I saw that once again he’d covered the whole seat with his cat hair, and I chuckled to myself, picturing the scene tomorrow. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom placed the toy cat in my hands, and I smiled. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A moon-gray cat strolled into the garage and settled down on a cushion of potatoes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Have to sell it for cat food, a few pennies on the pound. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The cat wandering off one day and never coming back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, the cat did have fluffy fur and everything, but she could have come up with something more original. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say I put poison in a fish, kill that cat.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, better than a cat, she dances across. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So zealous in their charge were those proud cats that they bent the last joint sideways for safer custody, and in time the faithful tails became crooked forever, and their childrens’ and their childrens’ children... The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can put the bow on something else. Like the neighbor’s cat.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Listening to the old cats around Small’s, I’ve learned a thing or two about hustling. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m good on Dickens, cooking, current events, politics...let’s see, oh, and cats.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No,” Vivi says, wrapping the stuffed snake around the stuffed cat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Shove half-a-dozen cats into that Castle," I cried, "and they'll kill every mouse in the place in five minutes, I don't care how clever they are!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They came padding in with their eyes lit up like cats finding a bunny in the vegetable garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had cut the big cat several times. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lashed out with her sharp little beak, right at the cat’s soft underbelly. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sat by the open door, pressed against the jamb, listening to the purring sounds of the cats. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She backed away when she saw Lelia and cried madly in Korean, You cat! Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat glanced at me with his mismatched green and white eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And she actually did a little skedaddle motion with her hands like I was a stray cat. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He stood on the far bank, barking encouragingly, but the old dog whined in such distress, the cat yowling in chorus, that he swam across again, paddling around in the shallows near the bank. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if, like a cat, she cannot see things unless they are moving. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mute’s eyes were cold and gentle as a cat’s and all his body seemed to listen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What’s that about flatirons and cats?” asked Meg, as she crept into the room with the finished letter in her hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little animal’s noise fell away to an occasional disgruntled squeak, but he ran from shoulder to shoulder to keep watch on the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And me saying that was like taking a heavy cat, a lion, off my back—digging the claws out—and shoving it along with the other cat right back in Darryl's mouth. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The cat got away from them in the tall weeds but they kept the stones because they were perfect in weight, shape, and size for throwing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack mackerel was not as good as tuna but was better than cat food, which we ate from time to time when things got really tight. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A cat saunters to a bowl of water left outside of someone’s bright green door. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They wended past a wild boar feeding on a guard and a spotted cat that hissed and spit at them but did not draw near. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pst, pst, like a cat luring a mouse from its hole, they goad each other into quarrels and dissent. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I memorize the circulatory system of the cat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a noise—a short screeching sound, like a cat—and the door swung in and Fossie was framed there for an instant, his arms stretched out, and then he slipped inside. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rarely spoke, and played cat’s cradle with Plato during the service. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I had a little cat and it had a little kitten. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since, however, I do not cat at lunch counters and do not swim, I have ignored her advice. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vet told him the cat wouldn’t get better and would probably cause infections in his human kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But why couldn’t the little cat—” Mary began. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never seemed to need any company except each other and their cat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again she was a tangled knot of leashes and cats. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Apparently, we were a shining example for our teammates as we lay on the court like cats fighting over a ball of yarn. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Beetle endured their anger and their taunts in silence and complained only to the cat, who listened and sometimes rubbed his head on her legs in sympathy. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one cat in her lap and another licking an oatmeal bowl on the table, she sat drinking coffee and reading a book of theater plays. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As he talked about Mexico, his small, dark eyes lit up like a cat’s when it saw a mouse. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Glass was everywhere. Cars left by the side ofthe road. Even a bus got overturned. Dogs and cats everywhere, digging in trash “Mud’s everywhere. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The cats lie on their sides, perfectly still, their eyes not quite closed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the cat, sitting in a patch of sunlight, carefully licking his paws and rubbing his face. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

His fat finger barely moved on the change mat but it flicked slightly like a tense cat’s tail. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Dursley drove around the corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his mirror. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Impossibly the next night—for the windows were locked and the house secure as an arsenal—the cat appeared again at my bedside. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Holding out a limp Fig, I cried, “Sir Fig Newton has the silent cat killer.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His horses looked like horses, his cows like cows, his cats like cats. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Or a rigid figure, a woman with a cat’s head suggesting inflexible, inhuman cruelty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched, ready to duck, dodge, dive, weave, whatever was necessary to take this cat down. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Otto swerved around a frozen cat and hopped the curb at Main Street, his brain straining in the midst of exhaustion. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The truth was that Bridge didn’t even think about the cat ears anymore, unless a little kid pointed at her on the street or some jerk said something obnoxious. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That makes all the difference. We shan’t stop watching for cats the whole time.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always use to say that I waren’t gonna go down that cat’s throat without a fight, without at least getting me some good bites in on his tongue as I was getting swallowed. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

How many cats had we buried over the years in shoe-box coffins? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cat will settle quietly on the windowsill and caress her with his eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one morning I saw three kinds of animals, not counting cats, dogs, frogs, cows, and horses. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oriana has a little silver leash she attaches to Oak’s wrist, which strikes me as not the worst idea, although he whines and sits in the dirt in protest, like a cat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The cat sat, flexing his claws as he watched. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rondell told us about a former foster mom’s crazy cat that never got neutered and always sat in their sixth-story window meowing at female cats that pranced by on the street below. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Never had she owned anything except for her raggedy clothes and occasional turnips, and now the comb with the cat was hers. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again he barked, and the cat growled softly and continuously, walking back and forth and rubbing his whole length against the dirty, muddied head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going straight up the lane? What about cats?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cat meows on the other side of the door. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The other dæmon changed, too—Will felt it happen, like a little grip at his heart—and became a cat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

These days, there were no rabbits about, but within the walls of the prison lived a large colony of wild cats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twig narrowed her eyes at him in a way that was meant to be intimidating, but kind of made her look like a sleepy cat. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her upstairs neighbor, the one with the tattoos, promised to feed her cat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sliding off Babe, she sprawled on the grass at the edge of the garden and seized her cat, dangled him above her, and kissed his nose and whiskers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost like a cat’s, with a strange reflective quality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our endless flow of cats and dogs had long since learned not to eat the other residents. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And then in a soft voice, she said, “I feel pretty bad about the dead cat business.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

To the cat, Isidore said, “Can you hang on until we reach the shop?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as the pickup was out of sight, she put the cat back in the house and made a beeline for the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Kill the flies and you starve the cats,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of skinny cats, sliding away, their flanks hollow as spoons. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“How did you know that Sir Fig Newton was sick? I mean, can cats really get diabetes?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t believe in any nonsense about cats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The cats lost interest in me, just like that. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the flat blue sky, he rested easily on the yard, as nonchalant and perfectly balanced as a cat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn’t a map in sight. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“The only way to resolve the problem of the cats,” he said, “is to dispose of them humanely.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin was small, with tiny cat feet and legs that seemed to extend to his armpits. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When people say it’s raining cats and dogs it isn’t really. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran several feet and then the cat, with one bound, was upon it, batting it hard with one sharp-clawed paw, while with the other paw it held the rat down. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I have been climbed by cats and marked by dogs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should tell Adam about my grandma—how she lives with three cats and how she once tried to feed me a can of crushed sardines and fed the cats macaroni and cheese. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The enslaved parrot Methuselah, whose flesh has been devoured now by many generations of predators, is forcing his declaration of independence through the mouths of leopards and civet cats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who is familiar with cats knows that they do not care for a determined assailant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes she can’t hear the phone over all her cats,” Toby said, laughing even though it got no reaction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"They probably won't miss me. But I may sneak into the house to see my cat." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The evil Dr. Loofah is climbing into the helicopter! He has the prime minister's cat and puppy!" Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year’s first snow began to fall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only real difference between them was that the cat wore tiny golden earrings and looked a trifle less smug. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking I must have dropped a grain or two, I vacuumed the entire apartment with a straw up my nose, sucking up dead skin cells, Comet residue, and pulverized cat litter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And the packet was black, too, like the cat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the cat sees me coming, he lunges at the door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Helvi carried the cat up to bed with her, and he draped himself with familiar ease over her shoulder as she climbed the steep ladder stairs leading up to her little room in the eaves. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the last cat was placed, we went back to Auntie Braxton’s. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pitched a rock at a stray cat prowling through our bushes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

One night when Pa was greasing the traps he watched Black Susan come in, and he said: “There was once a man who had two cats, a big cat and a little cat.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon was flickering from shape to shape in his agitation: dog, bird, cat, snow-white ermine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has sleepy eyes like cats in the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ouija boards and black cats are way down the list of neuroses I suffer from. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her locker is full of pictures of her cat, Misty, who she found in the rain. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t happen to see a cat just now, did you?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her cat eyes gleam in the half light, twin to Madoc’s. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m more of an outdoor cat,” he said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was completely taken aback by the cat’s reply. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There were cats perched on top of it and cats walking across it, so for a minute I simply stared at it, not recognizing it for what it was—a human form. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We have to rescue the Japanese prime minister's cat!" shouts Nala. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Patti stroked a cat that was wandering under the dinner table. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they felt wearily that every man, woman or child who had seen a cat or a dog walking along a road in the last five years had called to tell them so. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knock Ronan with my shoulder and point at Henry, who’s scooping up a cat with three white legs and one black one. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

When I get up early to go to the bathroom I see the cat move his crooked tail in his sleep. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the radiator, where the cat lay, its blue eyes closed, leaving only an empty, black, and helpless face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding upon a cat’s back was a new and unusual experience for Matthias. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We played the Steinway in the middle of the night, filling the darkness with half-remembered music, alarming the cats and terrifying the hired men. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I replace the giraffe’s neck poultice, cold-soak a camel for a suspected hoof abscess, and survive my first cat procedure—treating Rex for an ingrown claw while Clive strokes his head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Wolves lived in the Big Woods, and bears, and huge wild cats. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom waited for me in the foyer, holding my little cat in her arms. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The voice carried through the wall without Meggie having to strain to hear it, rasping like a cat’s tongue. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The cat closed with him, biting and scratching, and Bigwig rolled over on the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using their paws as though they are surgical instruments, the cats extract from the grilles every feathery particle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Mr. Sloat and Milt Borogrove stared at him as he rattled on, “Give us the specifications of the cat you desire. Color, sex, subtype, such as Manx, Persian, Abyssinian—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth was the self-appointed owner of the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, gear, children, and cat were loaded into the wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It rained cats and dogs frogs bogs then it rained snakes and lizards. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of its tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The cat would be there somewhere, but by daylight—and by staying in the open, away from the shrubs—she could probably spot him before he saw her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“A cat with a short in its power supply.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“When we got our cat from the shelter, we kept her name,” said Izzy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The big rabbit is a match for any cat,” he replied. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruthie came into the room and said, “How did that cat get in here?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t recall much about living with Shanon, but for some weird reason I do remember playing with a cat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Can you explain to me about Schrodinger's cat?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The dog chases the cat The cat chases the mouse. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Blond-haired, well built and as graceful as a cat on the court, Andre was one of South Africa’s rising tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming back from the woods, she saw the boys teasing the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole world seemed to consist of hills, like a cat arching its back at the face of the night—no human beings, no houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Children, grandchildren, brothers and sisters, parents, dogs, cats, canary birds...There are no exceptions: farmers, shopkeepers, even policemen have families or at least keep a dog. You have only to look at her father!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I am nervous as a cat seeing that book in her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The female cat raced off down the street, spooked as hell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He'd mentioned to me previously that all kinds of cats had sought shelter in his field of abandoned metal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A tall person, broad-shouldered and muscled like a mountain cat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If the cat had killed her, who would take care of the children? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Artists often use croquis for subjects who won’t or can’t stay still—like a feral cat or a small child, someone whose whole being cannot be captured on paper in one steady view. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She went to step down the first stair and realized her cat was snuggled up there. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while we hadn't been successful in finding Dell Duke's lost cat named Cheddar, I couldn't help but experience a kind of accomplishment as I stood next to fourteen-year-old Mai and her surly big brother. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“When they say a cat has nine lives, I thought that God gave me ten,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I guessed I’d better fess up about the diviner, since that cat was out of the bag anyway. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

With great dignity, the mother cat took her baby by the scruff and jumped down. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two of the lamassus, Shere Khan and Simba, had been torn free of the harness and were lying on the floor, mewling pitifully as they shrank back into their cat forms. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I stuck it on there hard. And now it’s completely gone. Like someone saw it and took it. Not your cat.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He flops his penis around at her and she steps closer to the man, slow, like a cat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I can tell that. I starvin to death in this cat- house.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cats took their prey there, and strewed feathers and lapped water through their bloody teeth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had tried to set a cat on fire for fun. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There, standing in the doorway, grinning like the cat that got into the cream, is Jackson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The cat looked as if it were about to say something else sarcastic. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It smelled of cat pee, garbage, mold, mildew, all the stale odors that had been locked in the house with Miss Lilian. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They’re fine, clean guys in straight, pressed suits—well-off cats who earned their bank on the slant. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the freaky cats, the talking sword, and now this, my mind was turning to hummus. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She put out food for the cats and dogs, and changed their water. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the guards taking potshots at cats. They always do that when they’re bored.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The remaining problems in calutron design were merely engineering, he declared, a cat he had skinned dozens of times. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The cat yawned slowly, carefully, revealing a mouth and tongue of astounding pinkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Vivi is wearing black jeans and a white shirt, mirrored sunglasses hiding her cat eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And these children threw around swear words I’d never heard before, even, and slang expressions that were just as new to me, such as “stud” and “cat” and “chick” and “cool” and “hip.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs and cats can’t exactly control the color of their fur, so why does it make a difference if they’re born with black fur or brown fur? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Scooping up my cat, Nero, I plunged into the tangle of vines and weeds lining the drive. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They decided to try and kill the cat where he lay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Silly cat,” I said as she came to her senses and rolled in the dry sand. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

One of the groups in our class discovered that the cat they’d been dissecting had died pregnant; they’d found a litter of unborn kittens in her uterus. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he saw something extraordinary happen to the cat: it leaped into her arms, and when it got there, it changed shape. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frantic animals — stray horses and cows, dogs and cats, and even rats — ran wild, causing increasingly more confusion. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

What had touched him was only a cat. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The cat crept a little ways out, following the light. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola doted on her, which was odd since she barely tolerated the other cats—the Outside Cats—and sometimes swept them off the back porch with her broom. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There he licked the hot blood off his fingers and watched as that ugly yellow cat calmly devoured a small water snake over by the irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid let the cat go and climbed the steps to the memorial. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Trying to direct team owners is like herding cats. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“There aren’t any male calico cats. What the hell kind of name is Edgar anyhow?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a cat who pushes its head under your hands. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Ophie! I was just telling you this story about the movie I went and saw last week. Chickadee, believe me when I tell you that the leading man was just the cat’s meow.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As she finished the second strand, the crow, who was staring toward the house, suddenly cried out: “I see the cat!” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For Lucretius the attraction of iron by a magnet takes place according to a law of nature, and species breed true, dogs producing dogs and cats cats, according to a law of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Will Solace was more like a lanky cat stretched out in the sunshine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The idea that the child, Mary, would want to bring her favorite animal to school is more than understandable, and is akin to wanting to bring our dog or cat to school with us today. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“What is that? Do you have a cat under the bed? I love cats.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did seem to realize he was being watched, because he looked up suddenly at the cat, which was still staring at him from the other end of the street. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When that happens the outboard makes a funny sound, like an old cat trying to cough up a fur ball. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But at the shrill warning of a squirrel, it flew off across the trail with a sudden whirr into the trees, while the cat was still some distance away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They definitely shouldn’t do it up against a grotty wall in an abandoned alley with feral cats watching judgmentally from a trash can. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Francis had been pacing in the hall outside, prowling restlessly back and forth like a cat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Father," a boy's voice said, “I think the cat's sick..." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gus and Bertha had a whole passel of cats, sleeping under the porch, sunning on the windowsills, swatting bees out in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She relaxed a little, but she still watched him intently, and he stayed calm and quiet as if she were a strange cat he was making friends with. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As things got worse they ate their horses, dogs, and cats, and then any rat, mouse, or snake they could catch. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Leading that gentle old lamb to his death! And that unnatural cat egging him on, no doubt. Not that I ever had any favorites, but...” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That some other cat hasn’t caught her eye. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daemon nuzzled at her neck in his cat form, warm and comforting. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are little holes all over it from where Mango carried it with his pointy cat teeth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’d manhandle one of the beleaguered cats up onto the keyboard and coax it with a scrap of ham to walk back and forth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The old dog walked in, the cat closely by his shoulder, then the man. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was a cat, I would have purred. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s about Dust,” said the cat dæmon, and Will marveled to hear part of his own nature telling him something he didn’t know. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So he put all the cats in an empty sack of rice. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Next morning when he woke, the cat was gone, the sun was already up, and the sand hot. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I confessed about the barefoot-discovered cat puke and a comatose Fig sleeping past his breakfast head bump. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Here was an essay: You cannot keep chickens, you cannot keep cats, your dog lives in a trailer park in Tucson, Arizona, and has a new name. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every time the big cat screamed, the boy dog would run to the mouth of the cave and bawl back at him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days windowpanes were brought from France by ship and the animal’s mania for crashing into them became a problem, until Clara thought of painting cats on the glass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The barista drew a cat that you could’ve Instagrammed, but it got messed up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A wet, reeking rag that smelled of damp cat fur. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cat took his advantage of that second and was off like a streak, running for his life up a narrow deer trail. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to stroll down her old street, Calle San Jose, counting and naming the stray cats, making up a story for each one, the way she used to do with her sister. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Henry figures that cat doesn’t know it should be terrified of the ocean and maybe just loves the smell of striped bass. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Even the thought of Prim's scruffy old cat makes me smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She could hear the cat, too, padding in the dark in front of her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She wondered what had happened to all the tom cats who had made life interesting and the nights hideous. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mice, as far as I can see, have only two enemies, humans and cats. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Undaunted, still licking his lips in anticipation, the cat continued around a bend in the trail in search of another, and was lost to sight. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw the cat sleeping in the yard.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, we didn't run out of invitations until Tillie's cat got its paws into the ink. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that he was no house cat to be tamed, but a malicious cat, even a dangerous one. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sat petting the cat purring in her lap and gazing out at Gus weeding in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then whatever it is goes away and I'm thinking it was probably a cat, or maybe a dog sniffing around. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

An­other is that only big cats can roar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still playing cat and mouse with the universe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Snow swooped down and perched near the cat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know which is more embarrassing: Mango having a crush on the cat, or the fact that the cat’s name is Twinkles. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Zed, who had been studying me with the same look that I see in the neighbor’s cat’s eyes when she watches baby birds learning to fly. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon, moaned in the alto and tenor registers as though the little death were upon them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, while Sticky helped them practice, she composed a poem about a bunch of bossy gargoyles who liked to eat cat food and pick their ears. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pretty lady’s words made the cat fur move; the breath of each word parted the fur. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Maloney told me Miss Willis had dozens of cats,” her dad said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You get the book, and you get the cat. But what do I get?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She went over and sat down opposite Agnes, who smiled like a cartoon cat across the trays. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The cat walked into the library to curl up on the warm hearth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might decide that it wasn’t worth the drive back to retrieve me; that, like Quixote the cat, I was a bother and a burden they could do without. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two dogs were in very low spirits when they continued their journey without the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slant added that he hath known a cat named Agamemnon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

"Yes it is. Anyway, I find the biggest branch and tie myself to the trunk with a rope so I don't fall off. Up here, I'm safe from stray dogs and cats—and humans." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A cat get to screeching outside and bring me back to my cold kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother would stand on her tiptoes and bang the kitchen window to scare the cat away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of a question is that? Of course I can pick up a cat.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He spoke in a slow, drizzling drawl, but his eyes were as clear and sharp as a cat’s. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into view, moving with a velvet tread that equaled his own, came what appeared to be a large cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are hobs born with lined faces like tiny, hairless cats and smooth-limbed nixies whose true age shows only in their ancient eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The other two now allowed him first access to any newly killed and bleeding animal provided by the cat, and he lived solely on the fresh bipod that could be licked from the carcass. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat sleek ranch cat walked across the road carrying a rat so large that its tail dragged on the ground. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Miles, “don’t leave that out. We all had a drink, except for the cat.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all she can do to restrain herself from flying at his face with her claws out like a feral cat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every cat lover knows that cats are not submissive to humans in the way dogs instinctively are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or the hospital cafeteria-line serving woman sitting there on her day off with a cat fur around her neck, telling the proprietor she was a “dietitian”—both of them knowing she was lying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the wall next to her was a large black cat, identical to the large black cat she’d seen in the grounds at home. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Cat food costs a lot of money,” I said, trying to remember if Auntie Braxton had ever been known to buy fish from a local waterman to feed to her cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost wished that a blind cat and a lame fox would show up, even if they were just going to tell me lies. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the same way, when the picture showed a cat, I knew the same shapes would appear, except the first one would be a half-circle, and Julie’s voice would repeat: “See—see—see.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the fan club took turns expressing their admiration for my courageous fight, and their hope that Fig would beat this awful cat killer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I also believed that once my parents saw the silent cat killer article with all of Sir Fig Newton’s symptoms, they would get help for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All they encountered were nesting birds and a few cats, who flew or scrambled out of their way in surprise. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A sort of medium-sized something, like a cat, but as fast as a fast car. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

For though the cat was number one, there were other things in the woods that chased mice. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

This time the enemy was more cunning: it followed only halfway up, then deliberately swayed the pliant young tree from side to side, determined to shake the cat off. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family cat had just come strolling into the kitchen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, some of them seemed pretty worried about the cats. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can only hear one sound—cat—but he says that the word cat has three separate sounds. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Mira, but you know her cat doesn’t like to mingle with others.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All my crab money, my boarding school money—to feed a pack of yowling, stinking cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger mewed in so lifelike a fashion that several cats answered, but nothing moved behind the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next morning in tears I told my mother of the cat that haunted my bedside all night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It would pour more than cats and dogs, I tell you. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

You need to use have only if you’re talking about two different times in the past: Until last year, Whiskers was the only cat to have googled on his own smartphone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only ones left were the shopkeepers and the cats. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was a little tired after her dash from the cat, so she walked along slowly, feeling the warmth of the sun and the smell of the breeze. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s made of gold fake leather, and it’s shaped like a cat’s face, and even I have to admit it’s adorable. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You think I can’t make a coffin for my girl? I can. I know my way around a saw and a hammer. Now get up or I’m gonna throw that cat down a well.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the boiling water, the cat gave some horrible convulsions and a dreadful cry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was too much nonsense in Lily’s words, and my brain hates a mystery the way dogs hate cats, so before I can talk myself out of it I’m descending the stairs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to calm Sitti down, but she was inconsolable, whimpering like a cat. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he yelled to someone on the boat “My Lord, it’s a naked boy. And a cat!” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty yards away, lounging in the shade of the cedar trees, were four big, beautiful cats. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She danced with her cat and danced with her dreams while Gerald wrestled with memories of pain. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss had desperately wanted a dog, but they’d resigned themselves to the neighborhood cat instead, since they didn’t have time for a pet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Pasha’s Favorite won the Harare cat show three years running,” the woman went on. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been like Schrodinger’s infamous cat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing he’d noticed was that that big cat who sometimes prowled through the station had seemed to be busier than usual last night. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I wiped up the last of my egg with the bread, Lady Seymour entered, followed by her cat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days after the accident, Angel sat in a corner of her bedroom, stroking her cat and staring silently into space. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longridge opened the door leading on to the garden, and the two dogs and the cat squeezed past his legs and into the cool night air. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, curious. I know the ways of boys. They are like cats who thrust their noses into everything and oftentimes are sorry. You had best save your curiosity, young one, for safer subjects.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Black cats and paper pumpkins gather on the school windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What if I don’t care about you and your dumb cat?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Son,” Mr. Lucas said, “I know some World War Two cats who can show you a thing or two if you really want to fly. Leave Crump and his crop duster alone.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The shells’ sharp prongs scratched my hands like cat’s claws and, sometimes, dug into the corner of my fingernails and made them bleed. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I must make myself sleek as a cat. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The trash and garbage had been swept away; dead animals—cats, dogs, birds, and pigs—had been removed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A person who has serious allergies cuddles a cat? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When she’d shown up for school wearing the cat ears on November 1, Em had called a meeting in the fourth-floor bathroom, which was almost always empty. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was telling him about how I wanted to get a real cat someday. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen anything like it, four cats in a companionable line. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"God buy you, then," I told the cat and, slinging my bundle over my shoulder, turned and hurried off after my new master. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

One Saturday afternoon he puts all his best marbles—his puries, his waterbabies and cat’s eyes, his gems and wonders— into a single jar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put his nose up in the air and sniffed, but he didn't smell cat. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

A good cat fact to know is that they only expose their tummies when they feel safe. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Not in public. If I begin to feel daunted I'll go off by myself. I'm like a cat that way." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We were careful to keep the latrine door shut and latched at night, so no mongoose or civet cat would find its way in and polish him off. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I loved the soft coolness of the little cat’s fur. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like a cat, with a long, curled tail that twitched the seconds. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is, my cat, Sir Fig Newton, a member of my family for almost six years, is sick. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The cat, however, growled angrily to himself for nearly an hour after this encounter. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could drape it over the head of the china cat that adorned the mantelpiece, but if Hattie woke early, she could rescue it before anyone saw. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One cat, with all my weight behind it He could give her a quick clean death, at least. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She took a step back toward the steps, but the cat stayed where it was, looking miserable and, oddly, much smaller. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Chicken, corn, wheat, and soy can sometimes trigger food sensitivities in cats.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Alas, that’s what I’m thinking when I notice the cat, the black cat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Carrying her schoolbooks and lunch pail, Helvi ran most of the way home across the fields and picked up the cat as well when he came to meet her. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This was your idea. I mean, we could do it without you, but I sing like an alley cat.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The goddess flicked her hand again, and the cat disappeared. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I heard the cats in the back hissing and the adoption center dogs barking danger barks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I smooth my palms over the sides of my head, like I’ve seen other cats doing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cats prowled the moonlit corridors as I explored. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morales looked down at the cat in Finn’s arms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Thoroughly humiliated, he called out to his former friend the cat, “It was all my fault. I apologize to you, Squire Julian.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If he’s a cat, can I pet him?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“One that will get us out fast. You two round up the cats.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then it jumped to the floor, tail switching, and I saw it was a cat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the Palace they built a wire cage and in it their collection of angry tom cats grew with every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Connecticut he had sometimes watched the one-sided fights of cats and mice in the meadow, and unless the mice were near their holes, the fights always ended in the same way. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I think about it, it’s the same for cats, too. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Vaguely, too, I remembered a horror story about a mother cat being vicious and scratching out the eyes of someone who had threatened her babies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Jesus,” Liam said, “that was like hearing a cat go through a blender while being electrocuted.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He tugged at the cat once more and managed to get it down. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took her hand and stroked it like you would a cat. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his eyebrow quirks, and he says, “Oh, Fusia. The cat.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There’s a heavy metal plate that fastens over it, but right now it’s propped open, and a certain cat is nowhere to be seen. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He clutched at his arm, hissing and spitting like an angry cat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Had Panther the yellow cat got hold of him? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I think secretly she was hoping to catch me making a dish of dog’s or cat’s meat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deoch told me that it was her nature to disappear like this, and that looking for her would serve about as much purpose as calling for a cat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Back in the days when Miss Lilian and her cats inhabited the floor above, Georgie and I used it to sneak inside. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The cat stared at him harder than ever. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Doc was in the basement working on cats when Henri burst in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the huge cat slunk away, and she ran home. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen scraped the remains of her cat into two heaps, one of them a neat pile of warm bones, the other a miscellaneous lump which softly steamed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there were long silences, when he heard nothing but the mewing of the cat Millicent, or the squeaking of a mouse she had caught. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But as the cat neared shore, he made the mistake of opening his umbrella. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Miss Hilly set down, looking like she just swallowed the cat that ate the canary. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bertha had been worried that he was going to chase the cats, and I have to admit I had worried about that a little bit, too. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ron and Harry stood quite still, both thinking the same thing — did the Cloak work on cats? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I scooped up the cat puke and tossed the bunched-up paper towel into the garbage. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He could change into a small dog or a cat, and sometimes he would make himself look like a very tiny version of Papa. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The poor cat now showed the first signs of fear since leaving on his journey; he was alone, and the only way to rejoin his friends lay in swimming across the terrible stretch of water. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Rowan, “like the Thunderhead. People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Throwing the cat down, I half tripped over it in my hurry to be gone. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Bigwig and Silver and went to join them, flicking the wet off his front paws step by step, like a cat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed cat that I smell? With a delicate overtone of rotten camel! Ah, the gorgeous East!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact I’ll go even further. I promise you that if you defeat the snake, I’ll admit I was wrong to that stuffy old cat. I’ll even apologize to him on bended knees, so there!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"I wonder," she said, "whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the cat, he entered the office and picked up the animal. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

All four of them had a great sense of humor, and they laughed themselves silly over family jokes and the antics of their much-loved cats and dogs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She could feel the cat stiffening under her hands, as if it were anxious to be away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A tawny cat sat upon a couch, gazing at me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But if that were the case, the feline family would also have produced cats who could do calculus, and frogs would by now have launched their own space program. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have no children, just a flirtatious white cat named Snow. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was freaking out over a bunch of cats! City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He has a cat's sense for traps—he got it from our mother. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We also have horses, cows, goats, sheep, more hogs, more chickens, and more dogs and cats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The place smells of wet newspaper, and the entrance is crowded with bags of dog and cat food, old blankets folded and stacked, and empty animal crates of different sizes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As screams filled the air, the cat became a scowling, snarling streak of dark fur. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Your call. Clive’s cleaned out the cats. He wants us to bring the meat.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The big cats travel on top of the flat cars in parade dens. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he went to get some french fries for Tiger. You know he likes that cat,” suggested Monique as she checked her hair in the mirror. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the cats are still missing, as is the bear. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I feel like a mouse being bounced between cats. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And then, too, she remembered Ruthie’s hands on her shoulders, guiding her back to the room, where Louisiana was alive and breathing and a cat was curled up at her feet, sleeping. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She turned her attention toward the Boss, and her posture suddenly transformed into something animal, crouched and coiled like a cat ready to spring. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To avoid the woman she had to tiptoe down the hall like a mouse trying to escape the hungriest of cats. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The tattooed face of a cat, blue and grinning, covered his right hand; on one shoulder a blue rose blossomed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were house cats, others were store cats. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The engraved wood pressed back, like a cat nuzzling her hand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But I saw a black cat the last time she came,” Ugwu said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He found an enormous cat in one of the chairs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her dressing gown and slippers and climbed into bed and fell asleep with barely enough time to reflect, as she did so, on what the cat could have meant by a challenge. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The cat had stopped short and was licking one paw with a pretense of nonchalance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d introduce her to the prairie, with its high grasses, beehives, and the colony of cats nobody could seem to gentle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She’s the warehouse and office cat, who keeps the rats at bay in the storeroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She said everyone at the Shanghai American School had a crush on someone else and when your love was requited— well, that was the cat’s. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dragged small children with them, or dogs, or cats in carriers. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her dragons had grown too large to be content with rats and cats and dogs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I crossed to join them, like a cat who smells herring. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange dressing on that salad looks like cat barf. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lyra could see nothing: her face was buried in Pantalaimon’s cat fur. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She and Margaret and the other women in the Gey lab spent countless hours there, all in nearly identical cat- eye-glasses with fat dark frames and thick lenses, their hair pulled back in tight buns. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cat crouched almost flat on the ground, thrusting its head forward between its front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet it was a big black cat just like Nero.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I saw a cat like you in the garden at home. You must be the other cat.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

"Maybe the physicist likes that the cat has a boyfriend." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I will pick up your cat,” said Thor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had seen cats fall clumsily from windowsills and then walk off as if nothing undignified had happened; this, Miss Lumley realized, was her wisest course of action. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

About how I tripped over my cat on the stairs and fell. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You think the dibia has sent the black cat to bite us?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The few days inside had done her well, and she sang under her breath and into the top of her sweater, a nursery rhyme about a fiddle and a cat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Out of her knockoff Louis Vuitton purse came gifts from Korea—dried squid and colorful erasers and pajamas with dancing cartoon dogs and cats. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sleeps in the cat box and does her business in the wood shavings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Other people came in with their sick animals—a dog that had swallowed a corncob, a lethargic cat, a puppy that refused to eat. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was being punished for tying a piece of paper to a cat’s tail and setting it on fire. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the life, the death, the heart, memory, time, cats, fear. Anything.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was as tense as a cat in a room full of rockers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Rabbits ran faster than cats, but they couldn't climb trees half so well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The mother cat had gone into the coal shed to feed her kittens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I remember my brother burying his jar full of puries, of waterbabies and cat’s eyes, a long time ago, down there somewhere under the bridge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It reared up on its hind legs, whinnying and snorting, and one sharp, unshod hoof connected with the lion's shoulder, causing the lion to howl like a huge, scalded cat, and to spring backwards. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had no chance to make a run for it, surrounded as he was by the cat’s paws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t be after seeing an old woman in there buying a codfish head for her cat, would you now?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beetle stayed hidden, more afraid to attract the taunts and torments of the boys than to lose the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline scratched and tickled the soft fur on its belly, and the cat purred contentedly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We went behind the stores, to alleyways of trucks and trash bins and staring cats. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

How the big cat had screamed and how he had bawled back at him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the basement either Gretchen was practicing her piano or the cat was chasing a moth across the keys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She felt like slapping some of them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of chessy cats, trying to make out they looked like love. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He stared down at the corpse of the cat. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then he fiddled with his apron pocket and said, “I saw a black cat yesterday night, after Mama and Amala left.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I do think the poet might have regarded the death of the cat as more profound than the muffling of the chime of a watch. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I was dreaming,” I answered defensively, "about a place where there weren’t any cats around to bother nice dogs and wake them up when they needed their rest.” Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went on, and I could almost hear the little bird bones crunching in the toothy jaws of the cat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cat padded over to the closet and sat, peering at Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I retrieve my blue cat’s eye from where it’s been lying all winter in the corner of my bureau drawer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound of her voice the cat looked up for a moment and immediately looked back again at its prey. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even pay any mind to the cats strolling around him. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The cat’s voice, though cultured, was a high reedy tenor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I pretended to be fine when anyone who looked at me could see the bags under my eyes and the way I jumped like a nervous cat at sudden noises. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He moved exactly like a cat, perpetually on the balls of his feet, and with a cat’s impressive, indifferent aloofness, his face closed, in his eyes no fight at all. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She is forced to imagine an effect without a cause, which is as hard to visualize as Lewis Carroll’s grin without a cat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He said that the cat was a therapy dog. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Was it my imagination, or had the cats grown in the last few minutes? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She brushes at the material, but the fibers cling stubbornly, like cat hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He just claimed the fleabag and even took the plastic cat carrier that the old lady offered. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It would have been a very big cat to make such a thump. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Angel would grab the cat and hug her until she stopped shaking and began to purr again. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally it was settled that the cats would have the run of the house, while the yard and driveway would be Grover’s domain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat, always freshly amazed by this display, looked on in wonder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That night, sitting at the foot of my bed, poking her face in so that the gauzy net was molded to her features like an awful death mask, was the black mother cat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even more curious, how did they dare to pull it across the yard in broad daylight when the cat was right there? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like a cat that has eaten all the cream and is ready for a nap in the sun. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He was a cat. A big cat. I don’t remember much about him.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sagely it blinked at him, and he dropped it, shocked; it righted itself in midair and, like a real cat, fell on its four paws. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cat was always in the chief’s lap, purring softly as the charo stroked its neck. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

From his sunny observation post on the woodpile, the cat had watched Mackenzie cross the yard and usher the two dogs into a warm, sweet-smelling stable, shutting the door carefully behind him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s probably already in cat heaven, while some animal lover has turned her into a tasty dish. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There she built her nest, ironed shirts, potted bleeding hearts, played with her cat, and birthed Louis Junior. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small brown cat opened her eyes and stretched to her feet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, his thick cat’s tail erect, stood on her lap with his blazing eyes fixed on the old man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than trample on the innocent feline, Annette attempted to do a little leap over said animal, while balancing about forty-seven cans of cat food in her arms. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally spray him with water, and he runs right into the cardboard cat carrier with the picture of a kitten in a spaceship on the side. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Only a blind wild cat would fail to react to such a stare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He springs up as soon as I open the box of tuna-flavored cat treats. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The black cat darted off, disappearing behind the shed over by the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The cat’s for was on end, and its tail was bristling like a chimney sweep’s brush. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“What about an exact electric duplicate of your cat? We can have a superb handcrafted job by Wheelright & Carpenter in which every detail of the old animal is faithfully repeated in permanent—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I know you do not wish to leave, cat. Nor do I. But there is no place for me here. I tried to come back but failed. She will not have me.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, me either. Mama made me swear. And if I disobey, I have to go live with Aunt Ida and her fifteen cats in Atlanta.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

A small gray cat sat on the kitchen counter grooming himself. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“That cat near about ate her up,” Daddy’d told me afterward. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Killing cats is unlucky. How often do I have to tell you?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember that time she asked if my family ate a cat for Thanksgiving?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But before he had the chance to do anything, the man bent and scooped up his cat dæmon and made off quite quickly down the towpath, as if he’d decided to go and get help. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Push the picture of a goalie cat with skates and a mouth guard out of my head. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The cat marched in through the open front door as though he were the long-absent landlord popping in to check out the tenants. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure it was just the neighbor’s cat, Ugwu,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll’s sewing, which had fallen sadly behind-hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does the horse know where the cat is?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She settled for carrying the cat like a baby as she poked in the cabinets. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The cat jumped down so quickly when Meggie put the milk on the floor beside the bed that it almost fell over its own paws. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I play bridge, she thought; I used to have a cat named Dancer; I can swim. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He has the silent cat killer,” I said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We watched as Cheddar hit the parking lot running, and in moments the fat cat had disappeared. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she’s smart. But she’s incredibly weird. She’s going to end up living alone in a basement with a bunch of cats. Windy, you used to have better taste in friends.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Courtesy of the cat, she’d fired a round, so to speak, in the direction of each. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cat was put down, and then came a series of crank phone calls and anonymous postcards orchestrated by my sisters and me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He dove inside and grabbed the wood and ran around the edge of the ridge, scrambled up like a cat and blew and nearly had the flame feeding, growing, when the sound moved away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In still farther meadows the watermelons lay, unfingerprinted, striped like tortoise cats lying in the sun. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the cat leapt up, or a cockroach is about to attack me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mai and Willow Chance both fixated on the jail-like front panel of the beige plastic crate, where they saw an extremely large orange cat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For hours one of us hauled while the other guided, mincing along like a cat on eggshells, sounding every step in advance with the stick. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He scowled at me like the cat had. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They pause to watch two sleepy-eyed cats, huge and striped, dozing in long grass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Even our cat, Tuerto, has learned to hide when he hears the jingle of car keys. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her lips were curved, like the smile of a cat, and something got into me — maybe ’twas the devil. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

A younger man stood beside him in a mangy cape made from a lion’s skin, his face framed by the big cat’s mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slow, deliberate, purposeful, the cat came on—again the bear retreated, bewildered by the tactics of this terrible small animal, distraught by her cub’s whimpering, slowly falling back before the relentless inch-by-inch advance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My brother-in-law has diabetes. Who knew cats could get it too?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joetta thought about her stupid cat and goldfish getting burned up and looked kind of hard over at Byron. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big cats would ripple across the street to disappear in the tall grass. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Switching to meows, she directed the cats in a stealthy flanking attack. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel, still conscious of being in man country, was half expecting either a dog or a cat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I woke up I saw that ugly cat sitting in my window, so I knew I was still alive.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“One feels one would like to pet him. You know. Like a cat.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam’s cat is at the door, begging to come in. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They’re all glued to a cat going down a stream in a cardboard box. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t have cats or children, I have viruses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could blend in with the jive cats, swirl the Lindy ladies, let my feet groove, think of nothing but the now. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calamity Jane, Finn’s tiny striped cat, slunk under the fence and twirled around his legs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just an intense feeling of fatigue, an overwhelming desire to crawl into bed and burrow beneath the comforter like a cat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In his spare time, Louie crashed society weddings, worked as a movie extra, and harassed his housemates with practical jokes, replacing their deviled ham with cat food and milk with milk of magnesia. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We stayed out there till it started to sprinkle again, a soft, cold rain that sent the cats at our feet darting inside. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The windows of the house were open and the overwhelming ammonia essence of cat stood like an invisible wall between me and the front yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had heard some epic tirades about that cat in his two years in their home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then we came home one evening and found the cats strung up by their tails from our front gate, gutted and skinned and bleeding out, their heads chopped off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He continued past a tent with a luminous pearl-gray cat sunning itself outside and past another trailer on cinder blocks and then burst into the clearing of Yossarian’s squadron. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she made me change into my new pajamas, with the dancing cats and dogs, and I put them on for her, even though they were too scratchy and too small. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then, without pausing, she set out on a dash across the garden as fast as she could run, expecting at any instant to hear the cat’s scream and feel his great claws on her back. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like many Siamese cats, he was as obedient and as trained to go on walks as most dogs, and would always return to a whistle. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds and squirrels mainly, but also rotten cats and dogs—pets that had wandered into the park looking for shelter when there was none left anywhere in Manhattan. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Alyce sat down and listened to the humming of the bees and the purring of the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s got the look of a cat that just caught a mouse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The cat's death struck me as the end of an era. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After staring back quizzically for a moment, Hassan's eyes shot open, and he said, “Well, I'm not going with you. As we've learned, I'm an inside cat.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen cats scattered from underneath it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I fell over, and the cat leaped free. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The striped cat slunk inside and dropped the tiny kitten onto the pile. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he fell skinning the cat on the monkey bars, it was Mia he ran crying for, and Mia who dabbed the gash on his temple with iodine and stuck a bandage across it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Letting the flies live, in her view, was the same as buying cat food, only cheaper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting quietly on the floor beside her was the white cat, its large black eyes fastened upon him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She read it three more times that night, lying on the top bunk, petting the scrubby old cat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

George could feel the cat right behind him; he could smell its breath, like rotting meat. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a nice, big, fat domestic cat, a 450-pound tabby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first time he went there for supper after Granny was buried, the next morning he started fussing about her cats the minute he got to our house for his snort. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He looked round for the cats and saw that, as he feared, both were crouching in front of the farmhouse a little way off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lorne one day sent them to the butcher for stew meat, and they, thinking it was an errand a cat might enjoy, carried her with them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the cats made more of an effort, I might have felt like I had lost something. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The cat standing on his head,” I said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I squeal, I can’t help it, and run outside to the courtyard to taste him in private like a cat with a stolen pullet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s stopped asking about a cat, and there was all that extra light-saber whacking this morning. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that why cats have claws? So they can fight back?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So the word is ‘chat,’ which, by the way, could also be ‘chat,’ the French word for cat!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The girl picked up the cat and walked from the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So long dead that Cook would probably not even throw them out to the cats. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once you got it gripped good, and believe me, you gonna be surprised how strong one them cats is, grab his tail right at his butt and stretch him out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of guilt and grief over the death of those dratted cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Khaled said, “She told him he is not invited and he can go cook his own dinner with the other cats on the roof.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The queen watched his face, wary as a cat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His cat dæmon hurried after them, abject and desperate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A little grey cat sits in the entrance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flanks of a great cat, the neck and heavy hump of a bull, wings as sharp and vicious as the wings of the great seraph, though on a smaller scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And the ship’s cats and two dogs have the run of the place. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"They were shooting at cats," replied Farid, letting himself drop on to the grass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Behind them, slinking like beaten cats, were two children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He landed clean in the gaping mouth of a huge marmalade cat! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Scruffy, a checkered blue bow bobbing in his fur, prances up to the Four Paws Spa's arched grand entryway, where the Japanese prime minister's cat is secretly being held hostage by the evil Dr. Loofah. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He nearly killed the schoolmaster’s cat, which had found him at liberty in the kitchen and tried to torment him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If cats have mice to eat, they don’t chase flies,” he said. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you frowning? Another dead cat video?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the biggest reasons for that, as we know in South Africa, is that only witches have cats, and all cats are witches. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The girl does seem to be the same one who’s in my English class, unless there are two brown-haired girls with a long braid and a habit of drawing cats all over their notebooks. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looks up, the cat notices it, and whoosh...he’s gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mountain cats in bas-relief prowled the friezes of the public library. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s no cat!” said Bigwig, his lips drawn back in a stiffened, unnatural grimace. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, him,” said Tucker, chucking the cat under the chin with his right front paw, “he’s my best friend. Come out from the matchbox.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the bush was a family of cats. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bridge started wearing the cat ears in September, on the third Monday of seventh grade. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He died in his sleep while having a dream. They found a cat on his face.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nobody was around but Snowbell, the white cat belonging to Mrs. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t touched yet, but now he put out a hand to her, and she moved her cat face against his fingers and then stepped delicately onto his lap. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You said I could have a dog,” said Mario, “but I never got him. And I never got a cat, or a bird, or anything. I wanted this cricket for my pet.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cows that had been lying around roused themselves, and the bolder ones slowly lumbered over in our direction, One of them stepped right up to nuzzle us like a big cat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then I think of the cat on the side of the highway. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A large tabby cat lounged on the top step, watching us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Because even though Mai said during the cat search that her mother came from Vietnam, I hadn't completely given up on the idea that she could have something to do with the Cahuilla tribe. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“A cat is a cat. There are no foreign cats, no Chinese cats, no capitalist cats, no Communist cats. Just cats.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught the cat and—live on TV—he kicked it and stomped it and beat it to death with a sjambok, a hard leather whip. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hassan kissed Aziz quickly, so the greengrocer across the street and his wife—who spoke to their individual cats more than to each other—would not spread rumors that the young couple were indecent. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“They seen you picking a cat out the gutter on St. Joseph Street.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father still didn’t, as he thought nothing of leaving it in the charge of a cripple, a beauty queen, and a tomboy who approaches housework like a cat taking a bath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has the howling cat cradled against his chest. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s just somebody fully understanding how alone we really are, which makes what people say to each other seem like empty sound, no more important than a dog barking or a cat meowing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They could carry rabbits or falcons or cats or even you, Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

This cat, with the small flames dancing in its oblique eyes, was perhaps seeing the pageant of its past eight lives, reviewing them with an animal's stoicism, beyond hope or fear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She talked about stray cats she had rescued or how she had made a mistake and put salt into a cake batter instead of sugar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was under the chupah, I was under a lot of pressure trying to think of surprises for the cat's paw invitations. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You will find many fascinating sights in bright Tenebrion. Here, for example, is a statue of a cat who used to put out fires.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But from that day on he huddled like a cat in the warmth of her armpit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had an uncanny knowledge of wildlife and was not afraid of dogs or cats or beetles or moths, or of foods like scrod or tripe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I am the cat who contemplates both the mouse and the cheese. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cat came very fast indeed and although both of them had been braced ready to move on the instant, they were barely out of the yard in time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you want to do a good deed, because you betrayed a cat?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

His cat eyes were gashes Mrs. Bains let her hand fall to her side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It was odd to be sitting on a million-dollar horse, talking to Priscilla Willis in the middle of the night, but then it was a relief to be talking to someone besides the cat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You went to a farm yesterday and escaped from a cat. And whatever you were up to, it was so much on your mind that you forgot to ask about Holly last night.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dursley might have been drifting into an uneasy sleep, but the cat on the wall outside was showing no sign of sleepiness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The cat eyes above the snub nose were alert, blinking and resetting their attention to the growing noise beyond the flats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

IS: The fluffy orange cat is how I feel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few more of the men left and Mr. and Mrs. Dalton turned and walked slowly up the stairs and disappeared through the kitchen door, the big white cat following close behind them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And no spitting,” he warned the cat sternly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he lay down again the cat was gone from his side—another small night hunter slipping through the unquiet shadows that froze to stillness at his passing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked because I wanted to be brave, straight into the dusty cat fur of his eyes and the bike stopped and he bumped into a parked car, bumped, and I walked fast. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen Pearl watching Trip for months, like a mouse watching a cat, longing to be eaten. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She touched the cat ears carefully with four fingers. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Black Susan, the cat, came and went as she pleased, day and night, through the swinging door of the cat-hole in the bottom of the front door. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s like telling a cat not to pounce on a mouse. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He took my presence for granted, the same way he might’ve sheltered a stray cat—no wasted sighs or pity—and there was never any talk about it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out she’d broken her leg tripping over one of her cats, and she didn’t seem quite as fond of them as before. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“You’d better not have gotten into something you shouldn’t have. Chocolate can be lethal for cats, you know.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Like mouse and cat, He goes running When the real dogs Come into the yard. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He went back to bed victorious and dreamed again that Huple’s cat was sleeping on his face, suffocating him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"What will we do after the cats have killed all the mice?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Snowbell, the cat, enjoyed nighttime more than daytime. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was almost starting to enjoy this kid, like I was the cat and he was my mouse. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I went down in the basement and opened up a can of dog food for Dandy and Poteet, petting and patronizing them to make up for the attention I had given the cat enemy upstairs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the counter, eating his bagel and sipping his coffee, the cat frantically rubbing his hair with her little head. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the distasteful problem of the cats remained. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local veterinarian reported that his office was full of clients with dogs and cats that had suddenly sickened. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After it was all over, Mama said, “I don’t think you’ll have any more trouble with that cat. I think he has learned his lesson.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was another of his talents; he woke all at once, like a cat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The first cat ran away, and the second one was hit by a car. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She folded up the letters, and he lay on the bed, pushed the cat aside, and fell asleep. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We later heard that the boy was taken out of the country for surgery and that his eye was to be replaced by a cat s eye or something. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They did not talk for talking’s sake, in the artificial manner that human beings—and sometimes even their dogs and cats—do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black cat lay on its side in the firelight as if it were dead. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"See you cats in a minute," he said, flashing a mouthful of gold teeth. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe grabbed a hoe with which to chop the obnoxious cat in two, and entered the henhouse expecting to catch the animal stalking one of his prize egglayers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach the second section of the train, August hops up onto a flat car and props open the sides of two cat dens. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I try not to look at it as I cut it up and bag it for our neighbor Mrs. Gluck's cat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the cat emerged and sat down, daintily cleaning his whiskers. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was useless shutting the bedroom door, or any other door of the house for that matter, for the cat could open them all, latches or doorknobs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of the mother cat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her cat, Viper, hovered by her heels, his glowing eyes following my every move. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

According to Ron, she was a great cat lover. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Pecola rubbed the cat’s head; he whined, his tongue flicking with pleasure. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

No water came, but the thing moaned a groaning squeak, like a cat that had been stepped on. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And yeah, we look a little like Pepé Le Pew and his bewildered cat girlfriend, but we really do seem like a couple. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A month after we moved to Eden Park, my mother brought home two cats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She probably had a stronger familiarity with the window cat she passed on her way there than she did with 99 percent of the kids at Booker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Most toddlers are interested in the fact that the animal with two pointy ears and a long tail is called a cat. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the cat purring against his chest and the young dog curled at his back were wakeful and alert most of the remaining night; neither moved from his side. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody questioned Snowbell closely, but the cat insisted he knew nothing about Margalo’s disappearance. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Because her cat acted like all cats do,” Hagrid continued doggedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A blue-gray cat with round copper eyes posed on the cover, his elegant stance twisting his husky frame. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The terrier heard a crunching sound as the cat’s jaws moved, and, wagging his tail in interest, moved over to investigate. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the cat made a quiet noise, the man looked up, and she jumped down to his shoulder—but in doing so, she dropped something out of her mouth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For the Coast Guard, the Rum War was less a game of cat and mouse and more a case of a needle in a haystack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Since we’d moved to a colored neighborhood, my mom thought the cats would be okay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Akhlys made a growling, choking noise, like a cat having a seizure. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Old stray cat,” he says, and now I’ve got David lying. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked with the children, about the cats and the farm animals. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn't look as hard as catching cats. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The one who feeds the cat when your family’s away. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He rescued the cat, who was the first to get home, with the Webbs on her heels. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And part of the dog’s nose, cut by the cat’s claw, dries up and stops working. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thor was not going to be defeated in a simple game of lifting a cat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But the cat made no answer, simply stretched luxuriantly and walked away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a mouse. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You can wear cat ears all day, but I can’t wear my own shirt.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ethel had said, “I never heard it so quiet. No music, cat’s got Kate’s tongue. It’s like setting up with a corpse.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone wants you to get well and kick this cat killer to the curb,” I murmured. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And all of a sudden it starts to come down cats and dogs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So February sneaks in a couple of beautiful days early on, and just when you’re stretching out like a cat waking up, bang! Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had tried to find her before they left, but she was an outdoor cat, given to roaming, and hadn’t been in or near the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I think he’s been hanging out at the Roths’ house lately, sniffing around their new cat, Twinkles. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The cat made no reply, but Coraline could imagine its voice, dry as a dead fly on a windowsill in winter, saying Well, where do you think they are? Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She froze with terror for a moment, and then her lips drew back from her teeth like a cat’s lips. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The domovoi flickered as he lay on the floor, transforming from dog to cat to old man. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“An’ when the enda the month come—” “An’ when the end of the month came I could take my fifty bucks an’ go to a . . . . cat house—” He stopped again. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

From cat to mouse, from the hunter to the hunted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cat’s free paws were stiffened, ready to grab anything to restore balance, its mouth wide, its eyes blue streaks of horror. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother cat walked around her babies a few times, rounding them up in a tight writhing ball of fur. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The cat hissed, screeched, leaped to the floor and was downstairs before Palmer finished his scream. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then someone flung a dead cat over the Poor Fellows and Warrior’s Sons alike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had found them one day at the fish market, where he had gone in search of a client's Persian cat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is, once again, the sequence that carries the message: the words act, tac, and cat, for instance, arise from the same letters, yet signal vastly different meanings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Resting on an upturned crate or school desk would be the shank of a horse or a side of dog or cat, a box of salt, a licorice stick, an onion, a potato or two. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I passed a display of dog cookies shaped like bones and cats and squirrels. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He growled softly, but the cat ignored him and continued his tearing and eating. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lion’s eyes got wide and it gagged like a cat with a hairball. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Where were the dogs, the cats that kept them away? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a cat licking its reflection in a glass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

By then I understood how it was with roosters and hens, of course, and cows and dogs and cats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lonogan pushed her Persian, Fabian, around in a baby carriage, Rus enthusiastically licking the poor cat’s pouting face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Their cat, Rocket—whom they’d totally ignored, ever since arriving at the house—was just poking his head curiously into the doorway. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Ha! You think I killed that stupid cat? Not yet. Maybe I won’t have to. Come here!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will see her every day, and we will go searching together for lovely things—gold-trimmed dishes, and a white cat, and a sugar Easter egg, and a cup of stars. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Blackberry,” said Bigwig quickly, “you come with me and get the hutch open. You other three, keep watching. If another cat comes, you’ll have to take it on yourselves.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sniffed again but could not make it out; there was a cat odor in the rug, he realized, past which it was impossible to discern anything. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Burson didn’t look up from his book as he stroked a cat. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She gave the cat some of our supper fish in a bowl and set it on the kitchen floor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure it has its pitfalls, but you know what they say: “Curiosity killed the cat.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was thinking about this when she climbed out through the knot hole and slithered to the ground below—not ten feet from the cat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t afraid of curses, ladders, or black cats, but he saw ghosts everywhere, and not just the ghost of the old woman now sleeping buried somewhere in the hard ground. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know; the shell is like a cat’s claw,” I answered, remembering the numerous scratches I had gotten on my hands and wrists the year before. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In her worry about Moving Day, in watching the tractor, the cat, and finally the rats, Mrs. Frisby had forgotten that she had set out originally to get some corn for supper. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry recognized it, partly because of the smell of cats, as the same tent in which they had slept on the night of the Quidditch World Cup. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dad thought it was great that I was writing a weekly column about, as he put it, the skinny dames and the fat cats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The word “cat,” in my perspective, would be spelled “tac,” and I could not tell the difference. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Helvi left in the morning for the long walk and ride to the distant school the cat lay curled on the window sill among the geraniums. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cats encircled me, hissing, growling, and scraping their claws on the floor, leaving deep, clean grooves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“He would have rid that horse, too,” pa says, “if I hadn’t a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a cat- tymount. A deliberate flouting of her and of me.” As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can draw a cat!” the guy who’s afraid of gravity says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A cat sits in the road licking a paw and smoothing it over its ears and watching him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I followed him outside, with three cats sauntering along behind us. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I thought of my idea to use black cat fur instead of the bones. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a cat or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music rattles The window and Scares the cat out Of one of its lives As it drops From the fence. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leroy Middleton groaned, “Oh boy, this is the living end, this is really the cat’s pajamas, this is sweet, oh this is really dynamite, oh we did it, we’re gonna get a medal for brains.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger looked at his dusty boots, at a twisted iron bar lying among the stones, anywhere but at the cat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It was fashioned of cat's breath and fish-scales and moonlight mixed in with the silver," she told him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, far off, he heard the yowl of a cat in heat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He raised and lowered his crest and then I swear he hissed at me like a feral cat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had seen his cat do this once: look up alert from her half-sleep and watch something or someone invisible come into the room and walk across. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

From within a cat howled in reply, but no human voice accompanied it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the cosmic Cheshire cat has vanished; only its gravitational grin remains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat is stuck on the branch now, swiveling its head from side to side in slow-motion panic. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The nights are usually quiet, except for the meowing cats or the rooster next door that never knows what time it is. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She scratched his head behind one ear, and the cat jumped up into her lap and began to purr. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tatterfell strokes my hair briefly, as though I am a drowsy cat, and then returns to the task of sorting my dresses. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Another lady asked about her cat who had been absent for three days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The cat standing on his head,” he repeated. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Look toward the house and see if you see the cat.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the cats were killed, we took a break from pets for a while. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jellyfish and insects, frogs and lizards, fish and birds are all animals just as cats and dogs are. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lion shook the unicorn in its jaws, like a cat worrying a woolen scarf, and darted a look of pure puzzlement at Tristran. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or an old woman who knits cat sweaters? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There’s all these other things too, like fur coats and porcelain cats and seashells and pewter statues of cowboys. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You can read as well as the cat.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the adjoining sector they attacked two large cats and a dog, bit them to death and devoured them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our old cat, Boo, despised it, she was always nervous, riding the walls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vivienne has come out of the crowd, cat eyes agleam, hair loose around her face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Shasta now gave himself up for lost and began to wonder whether lions killed you quickly or played with you as a cat plays with a mouse and how much it would hurt. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what to say, so I drink the rest of my lukewarm tea and watch one of the cats pace back and forth outside. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There Was a real skull of a medium-size animal, maybe a cat or a skunk, and a well-preserved dead tarantula. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that your cat’s tail under the dresser?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A cat passed on the far side going about its business and the old man watched it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard other members of the gang say she moved like a cat, but he suspected cats would sit attentively at her feet to learn her methods. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was a hateful man, and after he moved, the cat was taken in and renamed by my sister Gretchen, who later passed the animal on to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Reftview Asylum in Tarbean was only a fraction the size of this place, and it sounded like a brothel full of angry cats. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed that since Theresa could now see the real Mona and Callie as much as she liked, the cats should go back to being plain cats. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her meow is so good I keep thinking there’s an actual cat around.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Eleanor carefully picked a shard out of the cat's tail and set it aside, then wiped her wet fingers on his fur. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They saw no cat, but near the house stood a flat-roofed dog kennel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the particle degraded within an hour, it would trigger a mechanism that would break the vial and poison the cat. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He glared at the cat, then at the mouse holding the sword. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The cats! Dear Frith, why are their eyes glittering green like that? Look!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know how you hate to walk—after your stroll to church and back and pushin’ that cat around the yard, you’ve had it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Gale, whose legs must have been badly cramped, picked up Madge as though she were a pet cat and sat her down beside him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t run, but her steps were quick, lithe, and silent like a stalking cat’s. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was the cat Will had seen in Sunderland Avenue, the one like Moxie, the one that had led him to the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fig’s heart rate was normal, even on the low end, just like a relaxed cat’s. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly and silently you’d have thought he’d just popped out of the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They were flanking a car shaped like a big boot and another one that looked like a pouncing cat. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Something about a giant talking cat with a bubble beard. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then she looked down at her feet and saw the cat. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if a cat were watching him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses have their doors open to the air and I glimpse hens, a cat, a couple of men, in the inner courtyards. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But cats and dogs and horses are mammals, a special kind of animal. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The potatoes followed; then, holding down the plate with his paw, the cat polished it clean. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clinging white mist made all the wires that crisscrossed the city stand out like a cat’s cradle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After half an hour she was rewarded: the cat opened his eyes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twice, after being asked serious questions about whether he’s committed treason, he’s going to smirk. He looks like the cat who ate the canary.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The cats crept away, disappearing just as they had arrived or been bom in the cracks and crevices of the roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found the cat, but neither the potential conversation nor the afternoon was redeemed. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Nomadic life seemed to agree with the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the bed, curled up like a cushion, was a tiger cat with a white bib. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that cats behaved in this casual way because they weren't needy. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Still concentrating on finding the cat, Angel didn’t see Jordan until it was too late. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looked down at her lap, at the way that the rich sunlight brushed every hair on the cat’s head, turning each white whisker to gold. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She raised her arms and stretched like some sleek black cat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen tom cats in the cage at the Palace Flophouse and their yowling made Darling a little nervous at night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mouse, I’ve been sure for years, limps home from the site of the burning ferns wheel with a brand-new, airtight plan for killing the cat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That was before I found out my parents are extremely allergic to cats. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Come with me. You can see for yourself. I was horsing around with the cat one day, and I could definitely see it was a ‘he.’ The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know she’s watching to make sure I don’t spill any cat food. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she stirred the cat with a wooden spoon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a soft scrabbling of paws on wood, the latch clicked, and the door opened a fraction, just enough to admit the slight body of the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been given the name of a powerful male dog, but she was a cat without personality, which is why True Belle liked her and wanted her close by. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was probably why people were able to empty porta potties or regulate the quality of canned cat food in factories with actual taste tests. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On your way to the park, you had to dodge Bridge Barsamian, struggling with a big cardboard box, those tatty-looking cat ears she’s been wearing since September peeking over the top. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He held the cat off to the side, away from Ms. Morales. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingertip along the hard line of his two-inch jaw, rough like a cat’s tongue. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Claudia looked as satisfied as the bronze statue of the Egyptian cat she was standing near. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The striped cat rubbed along his thigh, covering his uniform pants with fur. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The cat limps where the dog’s teeth got it right in the hind leg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I vote for the cat sleeping in the sun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there is certainly ample room in the eastern woods for large cats to roam undisturbed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had fetched the light, he had not been seen, the khefts—and cats—had stayed away. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Drawn to the spot by the mysterious power that seemed to connect him with his foul cat, Argus Filch burst suddenly through a tapestry to Harry’s right, wheezing and looking wildly about for the rule-breaker. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At one point the four kids—my mom was the second—had a cat named Sherry that my uncle Salim loved more than anything or anyone in the world. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z