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  • Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

    Beautiful   Real   Boys  
    Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation
  • Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

    Watches   Ears   Paws  
    Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.150, Penguin
  • You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

    Men   Speak   Whiskers  
  • As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

    Silly   Thinking   People  
    Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com
  • We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.

    Men   Self   Ideas  
  • The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

    Sarcastic   Cat   Games  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, A&C Black
  • The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

    Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
  • Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

    "Perfidy". Book by Ben Hecht, 1961.
  • The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

  • Keeping the cat front-and-center was definitely a smart choice, from Tim and the animation department. Mr. Whiskers got referred to more than we actually saw him on stage. Seeing him on screen, you just love him.

    Smart   Cat   Choices  
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  • To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

    Needs   Whiskers   Knows  
    Steven Tyler (2011). “Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir”, p.10, Harper Collins
  • The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.

    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.87, Penguin
  • So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” “I hope not. It’s a girl.

    Girl   Baby   Giving  
    Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.494, Hamilton Books
  • With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

    Cat   World   Tickling  
  • The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.

  • Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

    Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

    War   Cat   Names  
    Richelle Mead (2008). “Storm Born”, p.43, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

    Mother   Cat   Dust  
    Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”
  • Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

    Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.

    Mother   Spring   Sleep  
    Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.7, Hachette UK
  • She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

    Feet   Boat   Undies  
    Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.737, Wordsworth Editions
  • Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

    "A Book of Burlesques". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1916.
  • And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

  • If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.

    Looks   Mouths   Size  
    Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.16, Penguin UK
  • The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.

    Lying   Cat   Animal  
  • New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

    Sight   Dust   Telescopes  
    William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK
  • Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.

    Funny   Dirty   Moving  
  • The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

    "Uncle Dynamite". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1948.
  • In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

    Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan
  • You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.

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