puss

• I've never had any bloody illusions about being a glamour-puss, but it's not even that that's the obstacle. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
• "Poor old puss, then!" —  Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco
• For while Simon's person was thus, on its own account "making game" of old Jed'diah, his wits, in view of the anticipated flogging, were dashing, springing, bounding, darting about, in hot chase of some expedient suitable to the necessities of the case; much after the manner in which puss--when Betty, armed with the broom, and hotly seeking vengeance for pantry robbed or bed defiled, has closed upon her the garret doors and windows--attempts all sorts of impossible exits, to come down at last in the corner, with panting side and glaring eye, exhausted and defenseless. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
• They are savage--puss is tame. —  Chambers's Elementary Science Readers Book I
• There was no kitten in the basket I hadn't the heart to bring puss, as we are going to Catskill,' whispered Miss Hazel We!' —  Wych Hazel

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