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  • Uri tottered about drunkenly, but waited, too, for the moment's calm between the catspaws.

    WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

  • Since then the fog-bank had not lifted, and the only wind had been light airs and catspaws.

    The Lost Poacher 2010

  • She rose and fell lazily over a glassy swell flawed here and there by catspaws from astern.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

  • In Kosovo we know not only was the case that Milosevic was engaged in genocide wholly untrue but unlike Iraq we have the smoking gun because the Foreign Secretary told Parliament 2 months before starting bombing that it was our KLA catspaws not the Yugoslavs whe were engaged inn genocide.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • For that reason alone the spite of Labour and its catspaws in the Charity Commission ought to be abated.

    Archive 2008-01-13 2008

  • For that reason alone the spite of Labour and its catspaws in the Charity Commission ought to be abated.

    News From The Class War Front 2008

  • Sadly this proposal was scuppered, probably by the likes of Trevor Phillips or one of his race relations industry catspaws.

    Sikh Regiment - An Opportunity Missed 2007

  • Sadly this proposal was scuppered, probably by the likes of Trevor Phillips or one of his race relations industry catspaws.

    Archive 2007-07-22 2007

  • If one believes that Standard Oil should have been allowed to use sweetheart deals and other practices to put its competitors out of business, using the railroads as catspaws, then net neutrality is nothing worth fighting for.

    An Accidentally Apt Metaphor 2007

  • They flew in scraps and fragments, turf, trees, and gravel leapt and fell; the aeronauts still lying along the canal bank were thrown about like sacks, catspaws flew across the foaming water.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

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