"Catamount" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than a—of a—comes out in the next fifty year, he'll be it!" stormed Austin. "But, damn it," he added, "the little devil's worse'n a catamount for fight!" ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... struck on the beach, and out of it came many savages, the colour of whose faces was like that of the stranger who is with us. They commenced talking to the Narragansetts in a language which none of them understood, any more than they understood the cry of the catamount. The Narragansetts were preparing to use upon the strangers the bows and arrows which the Little Man had given them, when one of them, laughing very loudly and sillily, held up a strange-shaped thing, which had a long neck to it like the ugly bird which ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... a change as this that has come over her. She is as cross as a catamount! There may be a cause for it. There may—I will send for a physician," he added, as he ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... and silently pointed at them with his whip. He had no need to name them, the fugitive would have known them in another planet. It was growing late; the lonely day was waning to the lonely night. While they halted, the scream of a catamount broke from the woods skirting the bay between the capes, and repeated itself in the echo that wandered from depth to depth of the frozen wilderness, and seemed to die wailing away at the point where ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... beats the biggest bobcat I ever heard of," remarked Jerry Sheming. "Why! a catamount isn't in it ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson
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