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  • Carroll depends here upon the strong contrast between his rather spiky protagonist (who gesticulates in a decidedly unfeline way) and what most people observe in real cats.

    The Cheshire cat 2009

  • Carroll depends here upon the strong contrast between his rather spiky protagonist (who gesticulates in a decidedly unfeline way) and what most people observe in real cats.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • We divested the kitchen of the cage, the nice soft plump convalescent pillow and litter tray, turfed Tess out in the garden and, thanks to a week of bright sunny weather and an abundance of baby rabbits, all cats have taken to fetching take-aways and sunbathing outside again and all memories of a strange unfeline week are erased.

    The cat's leg, my skirt and a vacuum cleaner. 2008

  • We divested the kitchen of the cage, the nice soft plump convalescent pillow and litter tray, turfed Tess out in the garden and, thanks to a week of bright sunny weather and an abundance of baby rabbits, all cats have taken to fetching take-aways and sunbathing outside again and all memories of a strange unfeline week are erased.

    47 entries from February 2008 2008

  • We divested the kitchen of the cage, the nice soft plump convalescent pillow and litter tray, turfed Tess out in the garden and, thanks to a week of bright sunny weather and an abundance of baby rabbits, all cats have taken to fetching take-aways and sunbathing outside again and all memories of a strange unfeline week are erased.

    The cat's leg, my skirt and a vacuum cleaner. 2008

  • There was nothing to explore on our sand-reef except the fishermen's primitive shelter, composed of a bit of sail-cloth and a few boards, furnished with simple cooking utensils, and superintended by a couple of frolicsome kittens, who took an unfeline delight in wading along in the edge of the water.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • Their unfeline conduct in eating up all the Tetouan cats aroused a hatred toward them in the breasts of the Moors, to which even the driving them out of Spain was tame and passionless.

    The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • Their unfeline conduct in eating up all the Tetouan cats aroused a hatred toward them in the breasts of the Moors, to which even the driving them out of Spain was tame and passionless.

    The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 Mark Twain 1872

  • It was as though nothing had changed -- except Kismet no longer has that bizarre and unfeline obsession with the shower.

    Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines 2009

  • The closest brush Kiz has had with rain in the past five months has been his bizarre and unfeline obsession with the shower in the master bath.

    Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines 2009

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