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Catamount   Listen
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Catamount  n.  (Zool.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.






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"Catamount" Quotes from Famous Books



... From respect, Clarke and the Legislature were present. The moment Mercer's eye, from the pulpit, descried Clarke, he threw open his Bible violently, and for many minutes was busy searching from page to page some desired text. At last he smiled. And such a smile! It was malignant as that of a catamount. Turning down the leaf—as was the custom of his church—he rose and gave out to be sung, line by line, his hymn. This concluded, he made a short and hurried prayer—contrary to his custom—and, rising from his prayerful position, opened his Bible, and ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... I'll just trickle out before she begins. Good-night, sir," said Doctor Prance, who by this time had begun to appear to Ransom more susceptible of domestication, as if she had been a small forest-creature, a catamount or a ruffled doe, that had learned to stand still while you stroked it, or even to extend a paw. She ministered to health, and she was healthy herself; if his cousin could have been even of this type Basil would ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James

... prairie like a book. He could ride anything, shoot accurately, was at heart afraid of nothing, and could fight like a little catamount when occasion for it really arose. Among those who knew, Alfred was considered one of the best scouts on the plains. That is why Caldwell, the capitalist, engaged him when he took ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White



Words linked to "Catamount" :   wildcat, painter, bay lynx, Felis concolor, spotted lynx, Lynx rufus, lynx, bobcat, Lynx lynx, genus Felis, Canada lynx, Lynx pardina, puma, cougar, common lynx, Felis, genus Lynx, panther, caracal



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