tree-cat

The nails of her hands were like the claws of a tree-cat as they tore at me.

Chapter 21 2010

He slowed as he neared the strangers, and dropped to all fours, stalking like a slim tree-cat along the branch and taking care not to rustle the leaves.

Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

He slowed as he neared the strangers, and dropped to all fours, stalking like a slim tree-cat along the branch and taking care not to rustle the leaves.

Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

He gave the sharp, barking note, but his only answer was the mocking maiou of the little spotted tree-cat winding in and out among the branches for early birds 'nests.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open."

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

For the forest lynx, or tree-cat, was the emblem of these people; and every

The Hidden Children 1899

I was aroused toward nine by the Mohican, and sat up as wide awake as a disturbed tree-cat, instantly ready for trouble.

The Hidden Children 1899

They had stripped great squares of bark from half a dozen trees, and were busily painting upon them, in red and blue, insulting signs and symbols -- a dead tree-cat, scalped, and full of arrows; a snake severed into sections; a Seneca tied to a post and a broken wampum belt at his feet.

The Hidden Children 1899

It was the glimpse of cannon and levelled bayonets that bewildered him; and his bawling charge sheered wide o 'the shabby Continental battle-line, through which we galloped into safety, our Indian sticking to my crupper like a tree-cat with every claw.

The Hidden Children 1899

"Were the braids fastened at the roots with tree-cat claws?"

The Hidden Children 1899