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"Carnivora" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen, a meridional head waiter, and an interesting restaurant cat. One end of the room is an artificial grotto, and into and out of the canvas rocks this enormous cat kept creeping, thrusting his round face and blazing eyes out of unexpected holes in the manner of the true carnivora, as if he had been trained by the management as an entertainer. The head waiter would have lured an anchorite into temporary abandon. Toward the end of the evening we discussed the probable character of a certain dessert, suggesting some doubt ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl
... costs four cash, an egg five cash, and the Chinaman strikes a balance in his mind and sees more nourishment in one bowl of rice than in three eggs. Of meat there is pork—pork in plenty, and pork only. Pigs and dogs are the scavengers of China. None of the carnivora are more omnivorous than the Chinese. "A Chinaman has the most unscrupulous stomach in the world," says Meadows; "he will eat anything from the root to the leaf, and from the hide to the entrails." ...
— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison |
Words linked to "Carnivora" : Canidae, family Viverridae, Mustelidae, family Felidae, family Ursidae, suborder Pinnipedia, family Mustelidae, Viverridae, Hyaenidae, family Hyaenidae, carnivore, Viverrinae, family Viverrinae, family Procyonidae, Procyonidae, Felidae, Eutheria, animal order, Pinnipedia, subclass Eutheria, Ursidae, family Canidae |
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