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For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away. If the bomb should fall and wipe out every living thing except Miss Brace, George would be happy. That’s the way he would design a world if it were up to him.
John Steinbeck • Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Cockroach
E.B. White • Here is New York (1949)
queerly shaped old man, with a thick, powerful body set on short bow-legs.
Willa Sibert Cather • O Pioneers!
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana,
J. M. Barrie • Peter Pan
He awoke in good time sure enough, sat up, and barked out, “Stop near that cabin in clearing yonder. Our work is here.” Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn’t know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found
... See moreJames McBride • The Good Lord Bird
it may be doubted whether our sympathies are not with the fox rather than with the elephant. We feel that the latter, with all his wisdom and good advice, is somewhat of a bore; whilst the fox, rake and wastrel though he be, has that touch of nature that makes him kin.