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Mr. Ondaatje borrows the phrase "cat's table" from a German landlubber term for the place where the lowest of the low dine.

A Floating World Martin Rubin 2011

And Keikiwai, the Water Baby, heard the conspiracy, knowing the shark language; and he addressed a prayer, in the shark language, to the shark god Moku-halii, and the sharks heard and waved their tails to one another and winked their cat's eyes in token that they understood his talk.

The Water Baby 2010

But you lick you ice cream, little pink tongue like a cat's, flick, flick.

DRIP Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

"The first time you get hurt the cat's out of the bag at work," says Ms. Dinn.

Getting 'Whipped' Into Shape Jen Murphy 2012

She hurried down the block when the sound of a cat's piercing screech made her stop.

Arcana Magi Cross - c.1 H-M Brown 2011

As Anne Lamott once observed in a different connection, it is the kind of statement that would drive Jesus to drink gin from the cat's dish.

Tucson memorial speakers 'scoff at Jesus': Frankin Graham 2011

As they tooled down the hill toward town Lucy played cat's cradle with the shoe strings she'd removed from her old Buster Brown's earlier.

The Birthday Girl MaryAnne Kolton 2011

And a shark, looking up with its cat's eyes, observed him, and sent out the shark call of ` fresh meat 'to assemble all the sharks in the lagoon.

The Water Baby 2010

He scratched the fabric interior of the car without a cat's disregard for destruction.

The 11th Arrondissement Judith Ossello 2011

If Winston's life is anything like my cat's life, it is a grueling, never-ending nightmare of eating, sleeping, and rolling around under the dining room table.

Winston isn't normal 2009