cat-o'-mountain

[449-60] _Pard_ is a contraction for _leopard_; _cat-o'-mountain_ may be another name for wild-cat, though wild-cats are not spotted.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

"A cat-o'-mountain!" yelled Fred Hatfield, and as he shouted, the lithe cat sprang over the brush heap and landed in the road, right beside the timber cart.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

"Haven't heard a cat-o'-mountain around here this winter," he said, as they started up the hill.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

"That cat-o'-mountain chase ye, boy?" the hermit asked, sharply.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

He come back, boss; said he'd been fightin 'with a cat-o'-mountain!

Parnassus on Wheels Christopher Morley 1923

He come back, boss; said he'd been fightin 'with a cat-o'-mountain!

Parnassus On Wheels 1917

Boisterous outlaws also, with huge whiskers and the most cat-o'-mountain aspect; tear-stained sentimentalists, the grimmest man-haters, ghosts and the like suspicious characters will be found in abundance.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Spanish Field-officerism struck mute at such cat-o'-mountain spirit, the cannon forgetting to fire.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

See accordingly, on all Frontiers, how the Sons of Night, astonished after short triumph, do recoil; -- the Sons of the Republic flying at them, with wild ca-ira or Marseillese Aux armes, with the temper of cat-o'-mountain, or demon incarnate; which no Son of Night can stand!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Spain, which came bursting through the Pyrenees, rustling with Bourbon banners, and went conquering here and there for a season, falters at such cat-o'-mountain welcome; draws itself in again; too happy now were the Pyrenees impassable.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838