cat-a-mountain

I suppose that young cat-a-mountain left it behind her in her hurry.

Westward Ho! 2007

"You, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honor!"

Shakespeare's Insult 6 July 2006 kradical 2006

On the other side of the cat-a-mountain, Simna made gargling pig noises in his sleep.

Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

On the other side of the cat-a-mountain, Simna made gargling pig noises in his sleep.

Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

_ I myself sometimes having the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, you rogue, will esconce your _rags_, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour. '

Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Various

If I was you, Dimpey, I wouldn't encourage him to come here much; for he's as deceitful as a cat-a-mountain! '

Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

She let on to me like a cat-a-mountain, and I never had such a dressing down from mortal man or woman in all my life as I had from her that Sunday morning.

The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

"Well, sir, I said it was not to go, and then this cat-a-mountain struck me."

Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870

A terrific shriek was the first result; and the second, that Alice and he sat looking at each other across the old man's hump, from which the cat-a-mountain had vanished.

Cross Purposes and The Shadows George MacDonald 1864

I suppose that young cat-a-mountain left it behind her in her hurry.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847