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These thoughts, together with all the stories he had ever read of mountain-lions, flashed through the lad's mind in the few minutes that elapsed between the first and third of those terrible cries.

From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various

Bob Scott says there are dozens of mountain-lions over there.”

From Nan of Music Mountain by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Miss Carmichael turned, expecting mountain-lions, rattlesnakes, or stage-robbers, but none of these casualties had come to pass.

From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie

The citizens tharof consists mainly of coyotes and mountain-lions, with a few rattlers thrown in just to make things neighborly.

From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie

But the real reason I fed no mountain-lions to Eph is mostly connected with sheep.

From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger