kit-cat

The evening was awash in hardscrabble spectacle, bathed in the light of a milk-dipped Oreo cookie, with costumes that remind us that all cats don't look the same and movement, songs, and dance that dissect the particulars of the kit-cat psyche and aesthetic.

James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011

The evening was awash in hardscrabble spectacle, bathed in the light of a milk-dipped Oreo cookie, with costumes that remind us that all cats don't look the same and movement, songs, and dance that dissect the particulars of the kit-cat psyche and aesthetic.

James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011

In the best room were two oil portraits of the kit-cat size, representing the landlord and his infant son; both looking as bold as lions, and staring out of the canvas with an intensity that would have been cheap at any price.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Morewood was there because he was painting a kit-cat of Quisanté for the host (Heaven knew in what corner Lady Richard would suffer it to hang), and Mrs. Gellatly because she had expressed a desire to meet Lady May Gaston.

Quisanté Anthony Hope 1898

The portrait by Healy, kit-cat size, taken as Mr. Tazewell was in

Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon Littleton Waller Tazewell Grigsby, Hugh Blair 1860

His prices until he went to London were certainly not high: two guineas for a three-quarter portrait and six for a whole figure on a kit-cat canvas.

Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

The portrait by Healy, kit-cat size, taken as Mr. Tazewell was in

Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell Hugh Blair Grigsby 1843

In the best room were two oil portraits of the kit-cat size, representing the landlord and his infant son; both looking as bold as lions, and staring out of the canvas with an intensity that would have been cheap at any price.

American Notes 1842

"About so big," answered the other, pointing to a kit-cat.

Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841

In the best room were two oil portraits of the kit-cat size, representing the landlord and his infant son; both looking as bold as lions, and staring out of the canvas with an intensity that would have been cheap at any price.

American Notes Charles Dickens 1841