bear-cat

• “I'll say it for Nicholas Ignatieff - he was a bear-cat for nerve.”

  Fictionaut: Fiancée

• “I tried to imagine forty-plus years of a dangerous, damaging, slightly out-of-reach relationship that required me to don a red bear-cat costume and ultimately left me in the dark and it sounded…not good.”

  Simon & Schuster: Project Everlasting

• “To me, then, love was like a Halloween costume: The red, one-piece bear-cat suit hides in my closet all year, but for one night, I am transformed into someone completely different, who is wild and crazy and giddy…and then I forget the costume is there for the next 364 days.”

  Simon & Schuster: Project Everlasting

• “We settled down on the bear-cat fountain to wait, and visit.”

  grouse Diary Entry

• “I'll say it for Nicholas Ignatieff — he was a bear-cat for nerve.”

  Flashman In The Great Game

• “An English hunter described it by saying that it was more bear than wildcat, and more wildcat than bear -- and bear-cat it is frequently called.”

  Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania

• “He had swallowed something that stuck in his throat, but he fought like a bear-cat.”

  Jimgrim

• “It's a bear-cat,' said the young man, admiringly.”

  The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

• “You're the White Hope, the bear-cat that ain't scared of anything on earth.”

  The Coming of Bill

• “Leave it to me -- I bashfully admit that I'm a regular bear-cat at this diplomatic stuff.”

  The Skylark of Space

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