Bast

The black female cat she called Bast lay beside her, submitting to her gentle stroking.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

That’s all I need to know in order to conclude that Joe Bast is not dealing with a full deck.

Libertarians Still Lusting for Palin? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

I named her Bast, the Egyptian cat goddess, because giving birth to all those babies made her a deity.

Cats and Gods « Colleen Anderson 2009

I call her Bastella—to call her Bast would be sacrilegious, but I got good omens for the Latin diminutive.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

I call her Bastella—to call her Bast would be sacrilegious, but I got good omens for the Latin diminutive.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Her last cat, also called Bast, had expired some time ago; this one she had recently acquired from a sailing merchant in Ostia.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

"Bast," said Margaret, and was about to remind him that they had met at Wickham Place, but stopped herself.

Howards End 1924

"World Bank officials justify massively polluting coal and oil projects by saying that they increase energy access for the poor - but that's just not true", said one of the report's authors, Elizabeth Bast.

Stephen Kretzmann: The Polluter's Newfound Concern for the Poor Stephen Kretzmann 2010

"World Bank officials justify massively polluting coal and oil projects by saying that they increase energy access for the poor - but that's just not true", said one of the report's authors, Elizabeth Bast.

Stephen Kretzmann: The Polluter's Newfound Concern for the Poor Stephen Kretzmann 2010

To answer your question as a critic and not a novelist, the most obvious difference between England circa 1910 and England now is that the sudden drop in fortunes that Leonard Bast experiencesthe free-fall from simply "working-class" to "economic and social oblivion" is not quite as swift nor as absolute as it used to be.

A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010