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“I swanny to God, I seen one a-them cats jump up on Loma’s kitchen stove last night! Tiptoed across thet red-hot stove on his dang claws and et right out of the pot!”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Tiptoed straight into the melon patch, all viny, with melons ripe for the picking.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

The minions of Prince Drowsihead, The wood-perfumes, with sleepy tread, Tiptoed around my ferny bed: And far away I heard report Of one who dimly rode to Court, The Faery Princess, Eve-Amort.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius