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“I suppose that young cat-a-mountain left it behind her in her hurry.”
“You, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honor!”
“On the other side of the cat-a-mountain, Simna made gargling pig noises in his sleep.”
“_ I myself sometimes having the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, you rogue, will esconce your _rags_, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour. ”
“If I was you, Dimpey, I wouldn't encourage him to come here much; for he's as deceitful as a cat-a-mountain! ”
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“She let on to me like a cat-a-mountain, and I never had such a dressing down from mortal man or woman in all my life as I had from her that Sunday morning.”
“Well, sir, I said it was not to go, and then this cat-a-mountain struck me.”
“A terrific shriek was the first result; and the second, that Alice and he sat looking at each other across the old man's hump, from which the cat-a-mountain had vanished.”
“Gow cares the value of a smithy dander for such a cub as yonder cat-a-mountain?”
““Nay, father,” said the smith, “you cannot suppose that Harry Gow cares the value of a smithy dander for such a cub as yonder cat-a-mountain?”
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