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But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her.

A vindication of the rights of woman 1892

But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on a man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection, which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her. 71

Chap. XII 1792

But that's merely the beginning of this ill-conceived, ill-timed and epically copy-cattish endeavor, from the cover - a clumsy, solipsistic shot of a woman in a WSJ paper dress (a strange and otherwise un-referenced homage to the 1960s) - to the head-scratching organizing principle of the TOC.

Adam Hanft: I.O.A. -- The Wall Street Journal Magazine is Irrelevant On Arrival 2008

Frank Rich being Frank Rich: viperous and cattish, with razor-sharp claws.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Frank Rich, Clarence Thomas, and the Missouri Assistant Attorney General: 2007

If I come across as “cattish” or “close-minded”, it must be because I’m not very good at S&M.

City Wants to Regulate Sex Businesses at cvillenews.com 2002

A cattish gleam of satisfaction flared in Miss Billingham's eyes.

A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

A cattish gleam of satisfaction flared in Miss Billingham's eyes.

A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

At his office and at his boardinghouse the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

At his office and at his boardinghouse the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991