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    1. Nearly al of it is mountains and pine and oak forests of the Boreal Kingdom, with bear, polecat, wolf, wildcat, deer, Balkan lynx and wild goats


    2. She was on Carter like a wildcat, biting, kicking, tearing chunks from her in a frenzy


    3. Was she involved in their demise? Or something else? Bosco, you probably don’t know this, but your Coal is a bit of a wildcat


    4. “Yeah, she is a bit of a wildcat; isn"t she?”


    5. My host on the first night was a member of the first clan and he was pleased to tell me that I was named for the kinsman of the wildcat


    6. He leaped, slashing like a wildcat, felt his sword cut deep into the scales that sheathed the mighty snout—and then a terrific impact knocked him rolling and tumbling for fifty feet with all the wind and half the life battered out of him


    7. She fought like a wildcat for an instant, and then subsided as she felt herself crushed by the superior strength of her captor


    8. Thinking about how easily a wildcat could snatch me for a snack as he walked by, I watched the bats whirl until their motion put me to sleep


    9. “I had assumed I would be talking to a wildcat, not a little mouser


    10. It looked like a deer or wildcat with part eagle and ox or lion

    11. The Ocelot is a small wildcat roughly twice the size of a


    12. This wildcat has


    13. WILDCAT! THESE TWO GALS ARE CURIOUS ABOUT WHY I HAVE A


    14. Brigadier General Roy Geiger, in the process of briefing quickly his assembled fighter pilots, watched the P-38s take off and then climb at a rate that a WILDCAT pilot could only dream about


    15. With nineteen WILDCAT and one P-38 left pounding on them and with all their escort fighters shot down, the surviving Japanese bomber crews decided that the game was not worth the candle and turned around


    16. This new variant of the P-38 should thus be considered very dangerous, much more so than the usual American WILDCAT or P-40


    17. Eighteen WILDCAT fighters, twelve SBD dive bombers and six TBF torpedo bombers did a lot to revitalize General Geiger’s anemic male squadrons


    18. Genet, bush baby, a family of olive mongoose and a wildcat


    19. As Max went down under a torrent of blows, one of his attackers tried to help his two colleagues capture the wildcat in white


    20. Skeffington, he now vaguely remembered hearing, had lost all his money in some wildcat scheme in Mexico, but hadn't he settled a very handsome sum on her after the divorce? It seemed to come back to him that he had

    21. “Dug her nails into him like a wildcat; tore his flesh open


    22. He looked so nervous he was jumping out of his skin like a wildcat


    23. She turned and jumped at me, trying like a wildcat to scratch open my face, but I blocked her hand and punched her so hard she staggered back and fell on her arse, screaming


    24. He gave them tongues like the false call of the wildcat; hearts like rabbits; the cunning of the hog (but none of the fox), and arms longer than the legs of the moose


    25. She would be a caged wildcat in here


    26. It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire


    27. As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast was a little gray field mouse, and although he had no heart he knew it was wrong for the Wildcat to try to kill such a pretty, harmless creature


    28. So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast's head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces


    29. That wildcat we saw on the horse must have


    30. And over there—see where I’m pointing—my mother shot a wildcat

    31. I printed it once more on my eyes, south, west, and north, and then we hurried away from the permanent and changeless past where my mother is always shooting a wildcat and my father is always burning his name with his love


    1. Amongst the heather and the wild flowers roamed a family of wildcats, the mountain hare and the marsh fritillary butterfly


    2. Although the coyotl clan covered a larger territory than the wildcats, their settlements were small and few along the road


    3. The Kwawia had the same clans as their eastern neighbors although the coyotl were in the west and the wildcats were in the east


    4. Perhaps the wildcats


    5. and wildcats had no experience at such things


    6. The fighter was indeed much bigger than Geiger’s Grumman F-4F WILDCATs, which formed with a few Douglas SBD dive bombers the backbone of the Cactus Air Force


    7. Normally, Ingrid would have concentrated on the bombers, but she was worried about the slow, ungainly WILDCATs that were also going to intercept this raid soon


    8. As if they had heard him, the three surviving Japanese fighter pilots, seeing new targets that they knew they could catch, gave up on the P-38s and turned towards the incoming WILDCATs, which were still huffing and puffing to get to their altitude


    9. Galer still lost two of his WILDCATs to the ZEROs, with only one pilot parachuting out, while shooting down himself one of the Japanese, with one of his pilots destroying a second ZERO


    10. Again, due to the short range, slower speed and slow climbing rate of their F4F WILDCATs, the Marine and Navy pilots at Henderson Field ended entering the action last, finding out on arrival at the scene of the battle that the Witches and Ingrid had already shot down nearly all of the 32 enemy escort fighters, plus seven of the 25 G4M bombers

    11. With the Japanese escort neutralized, the Marine and Navy aviators were free to engage at will the remaining bombers, but still lost three of their WILDCATs to the powerful defensive armament of the Mitsubishi G4Ms, each armed with a total of four 20mm cannons and two 7


    12. ‘’If that first group is really made up of forty or more ZEROs, then leaving it intact to duke it out with our WILDCATs could cost us heavily, Admiral


    13. Up to now, when facing only ZEROs, my WILDCATs can manage on a good day an average one to one kill rate, if we are not too outnumbered


    14. Against forty ZEROs, my present fourteen WILDCATs that are now in the air would be butchered


    15. Things didn’t get better when the WILDCATs finally dove on the Japanese bombers of the second wave, which were protected by only six ZERO fighters, as the fighter control frequency then exploded into voluminous and endless chatter, exclamations and shouts, rendering nearly impossible any command control of the battle


    16. Only eight of the P-38s, including the one of Ingrid Dows, were then able to go assist the WILDCATs


    17. While the latter had done more than a fair job of cutting down to size the bomber wave, many Japanese planes were still steadily approaching Henderson Field when the eight P-38s joined up with the WILDCATs


    18. This is not meant to disparage your Marine and Navy flyers, but my planes have a much greater range than their SBDs and WILDCATs and we should fully use that advantage


    19. Our WILDCATs will be held in reserve but will launch if any Japanese plane shows up within 300 miles of Henderson Field


    20. While the WILDCATs of the Cactus Air Force had not participated in the anti-shipping missions, they had their piece of the action today when a mixed force of Japanese seaplane fighters had brazenly attacked Henderson Field at twilight, with the WILDCATs shooting down six of the seaplane fighters while the anti-aircraft gunners of the 99th CAG had destroyed another five aircraft

    21. The first of the Corsairs took off from Victorious, followed by Barracudas, Wildcats and Hellcats from the other carriers


    22. The Wildcats and Hellcats came in low over the hills, strafing the battleship with machine-gun fire as the Barracudas began their bombing dives


    23. I remembered how on the ranch in my youth the turkeys gathered and roosted in clots in the cypress trees, out of reach of wildcats and coyotes, the only indication I know of that turkeys have any intelligence at all


    1. He started with nothing, got lucky in oil wildcatting, kept expanding and now he owns about half of Texas


    2. Among industry insiders, exploring for oil and gas is affectionately called wildcatting


    3. Most wildcatting expeditions end up without any oil discoveries


    4. , oil wildcatting) or new inventions (e


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    Synonyms for "wildcat"

    wildcat wildcat well beast brute savage wolf unauthorised unauthorized

    "wildcat" definitions

    an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field


    a cruelly rapacious person


    any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild


    outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices


    without official authorization


    (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive