The wildcat shows us we must think, must use tact, must be shrewd when we set out to do anything.
As a member of the Committee on Finance for three successive terms, and as the acknowledged leader of those who had been most active in passing this wildcat legislation, Lincoln’s share of the responsibility was no small one.
The wildcat had been brought along, and during the afternoon Snap skinned the carcass and hung the pelt up to cure.
Shep was right; it was indeed wildcat that had come to pay him a visit, and the beast seemed to be in anything but a good humor as it glared down upon the imprisoned young hunter.
The wildcat turned over in the air, gave a second whirl, and then disappeared from view.
He said that he refused to inherit money that was taken from the poor who had invested their savings in the wildcat scheme, believing the firm to be honest.
Then she asked, a little anxiously: "Aren't you skeered we might meet a wildcat or a lion or a bear?
I'm a sharpshooter, I am, and the wildcat that meets us will wish he hadn't.
You know as well as I do that Dad never did any wildcat speculating.
As a matter of fact, you could sell any old wildcat that has the magic of gold about it.
And there was never any trouble about getting the beds made up as long as the four chums camped on Wildcat Island.
After our experiences over on old Wildcat Island, I seem to just hanker after thrills.
I bet you'd run faster than we did over on Wildcat Island," said this worthy, as he stopped in front of the other.
You remember we had a part in showing up the yarn about the wild man of Wildcat Island, last spring.
Whereupon Irons O, dropping his steel arm to his side, turned his head half around and, to the umpire's surprise, let out wildcat howls that could be heard at the farthest end of the field.
His steel teeth cracked together again and again, while from his metal throat there came sounds resembling the complaints of a wildcat chased up a tree.
Then the wildcat peeked in again, and ungovernable rage seized him.
The wildcat and the lynx were about as fond of beaver as of fish and they could watch for both at the same time, which made it doubly interesting.
De wildcat an' de bar, He also give claws an' strong arms, so they all lib an' not starb.
Down from the foothills, coming like a wary hunter, a wildcatprowled to the edge of the beavers' pond.
And if the wind should change and grow a bit fresher, the blaze over near Wildcat Mountain might come in this direction.
Its last lurch of agony carped the stricken wildcat over the edge and out the ninety-foot drop into the ravine.
Also, when he chose to exert it, Lad had the swiftness of a wildcat and the battling prowess of a tiger.
The wildcat had wriggled noiselessly forward a little way, to learn what manner of enemy had invaded its lair.
Doña Dolores probably spells politics, but Doña Jocasta is a wildcat of the sierras, and I can't figure out any harmonious days for a man who picks two like that.
No, only one animal screams like that--a wildcat in the timber.
But one who was sharp would observe that he was rolling his old white eyes back to see, tipping his sharp ear like a wildcat to hear every scrape and creak of the leather.
It was a wildcat struggle in the dust, no more science on either side than nature put into their hands at the beginning.
It's the sweetest wildcat lever struck, and we stand the finest show in the world of starving to death if we tackle it without sufficient capital to go through.
They'd a' been at Wildcat last Friday ef we hedn't skeered 'em so.
Jes' git a note ter the Jineral at Wildcat ready while we saddle fresh beasts, an' we'll hev hit in his hands afore midnight.
In the year which had elapsed since the affair at Wildcat Harry Glen's regiment had not participated in a single general engagement.
Fortner and Harry Glen would take the wagon to Wildcat Gap, report what had been done, and explain to their commander the absence of the enlisted men.
The great mental and bodily strain Harry had undergone since he had first heard the sound of cannon in the morning at the foot of Wildcat should have made him desperately weary.
On the morning of the fourth they reached the foot of the range in which Wildcat Gap is situated.
Zollicoffer was on the eve of attacking the slender garrison of Wildcat Gap.
Noisy fox and aniphonal wildcat stopped to listen to this invasion of sound.
Somebody ought to ride back to Wildcat immediately," said Kent, after they had enjoyed their reception a little while, "and report this to the General.
The wildcat is an intractable and untamable animal.
The boys moved forward, and not until they reached the edge of the swamp did the wildcat become aware of their presence in the neighborhood.
With a whining cry, a good-sized wildcat sprang from a clump of alder bushes just beyond the dead deer.
The wildcat remained on the body of the deer until the boys were within four yards.
He conducted various trapping ventures for "varmints," at which he seemed to have moderate success, for he often brought in a wildcat or coyote.
Furthermore, by the time they had finished recounting in intimate detail some scores of anecdotes dealing with what happened when Old Man Hooper winked his wildcat eye, I began in spite of myself to share some of their sentiments.
The old man's face was twisted in a sardonic half-snarl that might pass for a grin; but there was no smile in his unblinking wildcat eyes.
My last impression as I left the room was of the baleful, dead, challenging stare of the man's wildcat eyes.
And all the time he was staring at me blankly with his wide, unblinking, wildcat eyes.
They had roamed over Oak Ridge and the Sunset Mountains, camped on Wildcat Island, situated in Camelot Lake, and scoured the region roundabout.
The dash of that wildcat rapid left no second of time for replying or turning one's eyelid; it was one long, breathless, hurling plunge, that got into their blood like a fever.
To meet a wildcat or a bear, or even a rattlesnake, would prove far from an agreeable experience.
We must capture this Gossley by all means; and it will be as well to put a guard over the mansion and place Colonel Bradner and hiswildcat of a wife under military arrest.
I would tell her no more than she knew, however, and then she said she was sure she had seen the Wild Dog herself that afternoon, sitting on his horse in the bushes near a station in Wildcat Valley.
That afternoon the train on which we left the Gap was brought to a sudden halt in Wildcat Valley by a piece of red flannel tied to the end of a stick that was planted midway the track.
As Ben spoke, the wildcat gave another whirl on the rock, and then slipped off through the bushes out of sight of the boys.
Soon all were standing close to the flat rock where the wildcat had been hit.
The last cry came from Luke, and at his words all turned quickly, to see the wildcat crouch between two trees growing close to the rocks.
And following the report the wildcat was seen to leap into the air and then fall back on the rock, where it whirled over and over several times.
Had the thing been a meteor out of a star-lit sky, or a wildcat leaping from a tree-branch, it could not have startled me more.
You're the woman who worked with Andrus, the wildcat mine-swindler who is now doing time in Sing Sing.
If ever wildcat flourished in a gold camp or gambling joint, and that wildcat did not hie to Canada when the real estate boom broke loose, the wildcat species not in evidence was too rare to be classified.
Canadians have too often wakened up only at the wildcat stage, and British capital has come in to reorganize inflated and collapsed properties on a purely investment basis.
Wildcat tied the end and pretended that he was going to roll it.
Wildcat tied up the end and rolled it along for some time.
Wildcat said, "Get into my bag and see what fun it is to roll.
Then Wildcat said to his mother, "I have brought home something on my back, and placed it outside.
Wildcat tied the bag, threw it over his shoulder and ran home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wildcat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
