pussycat
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But I begin to wonder: Right now the lyrics are as nonsensical to her as an interspecies romance between and an owl and a pussycat, but that won’t always be the case.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2019
In the spirit of the old nursery rhyme she is a "pussycat pussycat who met the Queen" when Her Majesty visited the cathedral in 2013.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2018
She held onto the checked shirt with a pussycat bow she wore at her 1989 trial for smacking a Beverly Hills police officer after he pulled over her Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible for a traffic violation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2018
Next to me, a young woman wearing a hand-knitted pink pussycat ski cap pecked at her phone, desperately seeking a signal.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2017
He says, You made Patricia sad, Frankie, when you didn’t like the one about the owl and the pussycat.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
“As Alan Carr says, the faithful have got to up the nerve at the banishment table and behave less like pussycats and more like rottweilers,” said TV reporter Siobhan Synnot.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Plus 1940s sipping-at-the-soda-shop starlet crepes in retro prints like rotary dial phones and slinky pussycats, or with judiciously placed rhinestones.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2017
IT can make engines sound like purring pussycats — or growling tigers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
They begin to purr like patriotic pussycats, and their stripes turn suddenly red, white and blue.
From Time Magazine Archive
“First of all,” began Santa Claus with a merry nod, “here are twin pussycats who are looking for two little girls just like these.”
From Little Friend Lydia by Ethel Calvert Phillips
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