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This was ‘first-made’ whiskey, that’s what I call it: tom-cat whiskey.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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This was ‘first-made’ whiskey, that’s what I call it: tom-cat whiskey.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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This was ‘first-made’ whiskey, that’s what I call it: tom-cat whiskey.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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Tybalt, Thibert or Tybert (who is also executioner), various forms of Theobald in the old Beast Epic; as opposed to Gilbert the gib-cat, either a tom-cat or a gibbed (castrated) cat.
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He was like a grinning young tom-cat, that came when he thought he would, and without cognisance of the other person.
Archive 2006-08-01 Gregory Feeley 2006
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Five years ago marked the beginning and end of a few things: for one, I'd fully released myself of what Tom Waits called "these old tom-cat feelings you don't understand" by contemplating an actual future with Tessa, something that I wouldn't have thought possible even three months before, believing I was so romantically damaged as to be unsalvageable.
vijf jaar geleden 2006
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Five years ago marked the beginning and end of a few things: for one, I'd fully released myself of what Tom Waits called "these old tom-cat feelings you don't understand" by contemplating an actual future with Tessa, something that I wouldn't have thought possible even three months before, believing I was so romantically damaged as to be unsalvageable.
vor f��nfzehn Jahren 2006
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He reminded me of an old tom-cat: he was dressed in furs; he was indolent and fat, and walked on his toes and purred.
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He began to moan like a tom-cat crossed with a didgeri-doo, an eerie wail that grew louder, a summons, a summoning, a sound that I felt might be able to transform the target of his alien serenade even more fully.
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Women — always unjust, and no more sense of values than an old tom-cat!
On Forsyte 'Change 2004
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