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"Felis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or Dominum, besides the primary idea implies something having acted upon the object of that primary idea; as felis edit murem, the cat eats the mouse. This is thus effected in the Greek and Latin by a change of termination of the noun acted upon, but is managed in a more concise way in our language by its situation in the sentence, as it follows the verb. ...
— The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin
... teapot in her right hand, was opening the front door to admit a large yellow cat whom she addressed as "Mahoney," an appellation which, while not infrequently the family name of persons of Irish birth or descent, is of very seldom application to members of the domestic cat tribe, Felis cattus. ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... permit you to bring to bear the highest powers of intellectuality upon the momentous problems which naturally fall to the lot of great minds? And now I find you guilty of a most flagrant breach of courtesy in interrupting my learned discourse to call attention to a mere quadruped of the genus FELIS. ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Words linked to "Felis" : Felis serval, jaguarundi, puma, Felis pardalis, Felis silvestris, Felis tigrina, Felis ocreata, cougar, Felis domesticus, tiger cat, jungle cat, Felis chaus, painter, panther, leopard cat, margay cat, family Felidae, domestic cat, Felis concolor, house cat, jaguarondi, wildcat, Pallas's cat, kaffir cat, jaguarundi cat, catamount, catamountain, European wildcat, Ctenocephalides felis, caffer cat, serval, margay, Felidae, genus Felis, Felis onca, Felis catus, eyra, Felis manul, Felis wiedi, mountain lion, panther cat, mammal genus |
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