Example Sentences

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Then how the pussy-cats did mew, What else, poor pussies, could they do?

From Caw! Caw! : the Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring-time by RM

India T. If you look in the Post-office Box of No. 25 you will find a description of willow "pussies," given in answer to questions from other young correspondents in the far South.

From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

I doesn't know nuffin' 'bout the Happy Land—nuffin' much, anyway, 'cept what nurse's hymn says—but I knows Firgrove, and I love Auntie Alice, and the pussies, and baby when he's not cryin'.

From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Arthur, Frances Browne

On no account let the pussies lie on the bare wood or zinc, but provide each with a cushion of some sort, and have a small box filled with earth or sand, in each pen.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon

It is seldom, if ever, that a cat is lost, the baskets containing the pussies never being opened, until inside the building, and then only with the greatest care.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon