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Usage examples of wildcat.

The two carriers, ten miles apart in the center of their circular task group formations, came around into the wind and the waiting Wildcats at ten-second intervals snarled down the decks, hopped into the air, pointed their noses sharply up and clawed for altitude.

NICK STEFANOS parked his Wildcat in the alley behind a fastback Mustang, got a crate of tomatoes out of his trunk, and called through the screen door of the Three-Star before he and his grandson walked inside.

From time to time he could hear the cabbie monitoring NYPD net for flameouts or wildcat tolls set up by street gangs.

Now faced by the huge Negress with blood in her eye, brandishing her mop, and a tiny wildcat gripping a bar of soap as if it were a dagger, he turned and fled from the vengeful pair.

Feathers and paint identified the Picts as the chiefs of the Turtles, Hawks, Wildcats, and Wolves, all of them yawning and bleary-eyed from their nightlong session.

Every day the 200-mile searches went out ahead and, on both flanks, the antisub Avengers made their horizon sweeps and maintained inner and intermediate patrols and the Wildcat CAP was constantly overhead.

Zeros to each Devastator and a Zero could outfight a Wildcat The TBDs at full throttle were making 120 knots, the Zeros flashed in and out at two and three times that speed during all the long minutes of the approach.

He found I no Wildcats but four Zeros instead, and in a swirling melee I of brown-bodied, yellow-winged fighters, with the horizon I usually vertical, the sea frequently above and vision re-!

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Then a shadow crossed it and she saw as plainly as if she stood before them the form of the wildcat, her two kittens, and the snow cubling she had adopted.

As I fought to rally my senses, I glimpsed the disguised Jotuns dragging Freya, struggling like a wildcat, toward the cliff.

The early settlers had given them outlandish names: Sawdust City, Chipmunk, Squunk Corners, Middle Hummock, West Middle Hummock, Wildcat, Smith's Folly, Mooseville, even a village named Brrr.

After a couple of years in the City both girls were very different from the tough little wildcats Bela ten Belen had caught.

They saw small wildcats, larger huge cave lions, and they heard the laughing cackle of s that followed, the great river changed her course and .

Now they were still, in wildcat dignity, for this was a ceremonial occasion.