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"It was a good foot, and we parted so hurriedly I never had a chance to really think about it as a foot, so off I went ..." So begins this lean little novel - a quest, a wandering, a contemplation of the immense foolishness of war.
Dear John, Earnest says that a cat's foot is just as lucky as a rabbit's but a cat's
foot is real easy to get in Brooklyn. I told Earnest, “A rat's foot is even easier.” But
he says, “They ain't lucky. I tried it.” Dear John, Earnest says a rabbit's foot costs ...
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Guide to a Well-Behaved Cat
Holding the leg securely but unthreateningly between the heel of your thumb and
the tips of your middle, ring, and little fingers, grasp the cat's foot between your
thumb and forefinger. Press down on the top of the cat's foot with your thumb, ...
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Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean
He started eating the bottom of Cat's foot, and he blew as he was eating, to make
a breeze so cat wouldn't feel it. In the morning when they woke up, poor friend
Cat almost couldn't walk on one edge of his foot. He said to his good friend the rat
, ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
A vitreous variety of quartz, found principally in Ceylon and Malabar, and, when
cut en cabochon, used ris a precious stone. Cat's Foot. To live under the cat's foot
. To be under petticoat government ; to be henpecked. A mouse under the paw of
...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
Neko-ashi-dachi cat's-foot stance) The cat's-foot stance is used in san-ju-roku, an
advanced kata not shown in this book. This stance is used effectively before a
foot-strike, since the striking leg bears none of the body's weight. Important points
...
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1,001 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Cats
“Living under the cat's foot” No one uses the word henpecked any more or the
phrase “living under the cat's foot,” which has the same meaning. The idea was
that a spineless husband let his wife dominate his life. So what is the connection
...
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Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
... sporting house, that Tom Belcher would be in danger of losing his licence, if he
did not often have a fool or Catoller exhibit himself for the amusement of his
visiters. Cat's Foot. To live under the cat's foot ; to be under the dominion of a wife
...
Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, 1823
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The Herb Book: The Most Complete Catalog of Herbs Ever Published
(Antennaria dioica) Common Name: Mountain everlasting. Medicinal Part: The
flowering herb. Description: Cat's foot is a small perennial plant found growing in
large patches in the mountains of the Pacific coast states and in both mountains ...
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Lexicon Balatronicum. A dictionary of Buckish slang, ...
CAT CAT's FooT. To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife
hen-peeked. To live like dog and cat ; spoken of married persons who live
unhappily together. As many lives as a cat; cats, according to vulgar naturalists,
have ...
