"Angora" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dora, her eyes sparkling, "do you really mean that? Would you truly like to have an Angora kitten?" ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton
... in a great leather chair, in front of the open fire, playing with a white angora kitten, who climbed upon her shoulder and generally conducted himself like a white ball of animated yarn. It was too bad that there was no painter at hand to transfer to canvas so lovely a picture as this girl in her white frock made, sitting by the firelight ...
— 'Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life • Joseph R. Grismer
... considered as the end of the railway system of the earth. Here, if you wish to see more of the Orient, you must take to the sea. There is, to be sure, a projected railway out of the Sultan's city into the interior, but only completed to Angora, three hundred and sixty-five miles. The intention of the projectors was to continue the road down to Bagdad, on the river Tigris, through which they could reach the ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... in the same house with Fluff, an Angora cat of great beauty. Teddy has been carefully taught, and his manners are delightful. Often when passing the chair where Fluff lies asleep, Teddy will put up his black nose and give her face a friendly ...
— Friends and Helpers • Sarah J. Eddy
... and there are, besides, manufactures of black felts, carpets, arms and saddlery. Afium contains several mosques (one of them a very handsome building), and is the seat of an Armenian bishop. The town is connected by railway with Smyrna, Konia, Angora and Constantinople. ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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