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puss-in-the-corner

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  • There were the Wimans44 and Mary Hay and Eva La Galliene and rides in the Bois at dawn and the night we all played puss-in-the-corner at the Ritz.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • There were the Wimans44 and Mary Hay and Eva La Galliene and rides in the Bois at dawn and the night we all played puss-in-the-corner at the Ritz.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • All the things from under the saloon seats come out and dance together, and play puss-in-the-corner, after the fashion of loose gear when there is any sea on.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • You have seen, when what you call a beam of light comes in at a hole, before the shutters have been opened, how the little specks of dust glance up and down in it, as if they were at an endless game of puss-in-the-corner.

    Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

  • Tops belong to autumn, hockey to the ice, base-ball to the spring and summer, foot-ball to the cold, snappy fall, and I seem to remember that even such games as hide-and-seek or puss-in-the-corner were played constantly at one period, not at all at another.

    Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

  • I played tag and puss-in-the-corner in the schoolyard, and did everything that was comrade-like.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • I played tag and puss-in-the-corner in the schoolyard, and did everything that was comrade-like.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • I played tag and puss-in-the-corner in the schoolyard, and did everything that was comrade-like.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • I think the trouble was that Bi never got it fully into his fool head that it wasn't just fun -- like puss-in-the-corner or blind-man's-buff.

    The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • I had a queer feeling that whenever I wasn't looking at them straight they went askew, and moved about, and played a noiseless puss-in-the-corner behind my back.

    The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

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