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His outspoken criticism of another disappointing Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, stands in sharp contrast to the tabby-cat role that labor leaders seem to be playing at the Obama White House today, no matter how much their members get kicked around on trade deals, health care reform, workers' rights, deficit reduction, or business-friendly appointments.

Steve Early: Does Labor Need Another Wimpy? Steve Early 2011

Whilst he was thus walking full of thought, he met a small tabby-cat which said quite kindly, “Hans, where are you going?”

Household Tales 2003

So he chopped the wood small; stayed there in the house and had good meat and drink, but never saw anyone but the tabby-cat and her servants.

Household Tales 2003

And a magnificent princess alighted from the coach and went into the mill, and this princess was the little tabby-cat whom poor Hans had served for seven years.

Household Tales 2003

He thought of everything connected with his hallowed home: of the good-natured spinster who was his housekeeper, and of the ten-acre lots upon his farm; of the red steers and the gray mare; of the shaggy watch-dog and the tabby-cat; of home in all its minutiæ.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

Obediently Mrs. Nolak put her tabby-cat face inside the camel's head and turned it from side to side ferociously.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

With this reflection I was about to shut my window, when suddenly I perceived, in a spot of sunshine on my right, the shadow of two pricked-up ears; then a paw advanced, then the head of a tabby-cat showed itself at the corner of the gutter.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Obediently Mrs. Nolak put her tabby-cat face inside the camel's head and turned it from side to side ferociously.

Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

The tabby-cat statesmen who had been too old to fight, were busy sowing the seeds of future wars.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

Obediently Mrs. Nolak put her tabby-cat face inside the camel's head and turned it from side to side ferociously.

Tales of the Jazz Age 1918