Cat's-eye

Cat's-eye and tiger's-eye owe their peculiar appearance to the presence, within them, of many fine, parallel, silky fibers.

A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade

"_Cat's-eye_" is a term that should be reserved for the Chrysoberyl variety, and the quartz variety should always be called "quartz cat's-eye."

A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade

The call of the Cat's-eye is of the same style but very loud and harsh, and heard early in April.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

According to one who knows him well, the Cat's-eye buries itself far underground, and sleeps days, or weeks, _perhaps years_ at a time.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

And it is a song, and a very successful one, for a visit to the same pond a week or two later, will show you -- not the Cat's-eye or his mate, they have gone a-tunnelling -- but a swarm of little black pin-like tadpole Cat's-eyes, born and bred in the glorious sunlight but doomed and ready, if they live, to follow in their parents 'tracks far underground.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

The _Cat's-eye_ is one of the jewels of which the Singhalese are especially proud, from a belief that it is only found in their island; but in this I apprehend they are misinformed, as specimens of equal merit have been brought from Quilon and Cochin on the southern coast of

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

But the wonderful thing about the Cat's-eye is that it spends most of its life underground, coming out in the early springtime for a few days of the most riotous honeymoon in some small pond, where it sings a loud chorus till mated, lays a few hundred eggs, to be hatched into tadpoles, then backs itself into its underground world by means of the boring machine on its hind feet, to be heard no more that season, and seen no more, unless some one chance to dig it out, just as Hans in the story dug out the mole-gnome.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

a grave-digger found a Cat's-eye three feet two inches down in the earth with no way out.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903