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The small shop is jam-packed with clothing, ranging from lace prairie dresses from the 1910s to 1980s couture, worn by mannequins with spooky cat-head masks.
Unearthing Treasures in Paris Rachel Dodes 2011
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With cleaned fore finger, poke hole in side of cat-head biscuit, moving finger around a bit to enlarge hole.
Fried Alabama 2008
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Molasses Sammich: Cold cat-head biscuitHome churned Jersey butterPure cane molassesDirections: Place right fore finger in mouth and lick clean.
Fried Alabama 2008
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I would like to see a giant wolf spider or cat-head spider cake.
Creepy Crawly Cakes 2009
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As for the cat-head -- looking at it sometimes Kane had a peculiar feeling of alteration; a faint sensing that once the pommel of the staff was carved with a different design.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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‘Golconda, of Calcutta,’ says the fellow, with a groan as seemed to come out of the whites of his eyes; and down goes his head again, enough to split a cat-head.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow ...
In the Heart of the Sea: Summary and book reviews of In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. 2000
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Turning over, she discovered TT reared up before the window, her forepaws on the sill, big cat-head outlined against the star-hazed night sky, staring fixedly down into the garden.
The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000
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On the seventh day, Hardenberg and I were forward by the cat-head adjusting the grain with some half-formed intent of spearing the porpoises that of late had begun to appear under our bows, and Hardenberg had been computing the number of days we were yet to run.
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"Run away with the falls, you lubbers," echoed Moggridge, who was as busy about the matter as the first mate and doing two men's work himself; but, although the usual chorus was raised, and the sailors tugged away with all their strength, the anchor would not budge from its resting-place on the cat-head.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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