He looked too much like a long-tailed rat, as it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

A long-tailed white is, in comparison, but a docked black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841] Reference

Y 'won't curry that' ere long-tailed black hoss no more; 'n'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

The long-tailed monkeys of Africa are very numerous and varied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference

For a time the bay at the river mouth was full of long-tailed ducks, that at.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Essentially, what this is, is one Pacific flyway pattern of long-tailed duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2005] Reference

It was a long-tailed shirt, made for his height, but she was tall for a woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

"I wore a high-crowned hat, and a long-tailed blue; and I was seventy years old.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Poor Peter's heart had been sorely tried by the depredations of his long-tailed enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

The former consists of the long-tailed coat worn with either a white or black waistcoat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

He's got awful stuck up of late, and wears a long-tailed coat and beaver hat all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

One of the long-tailed clumsy Brachypodiums occurs in the fields: bears also are found here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

In 2009, 3,179 long-tailed macaques were imported into the U.S., including wild-caught animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mauritius Monkey Capturing: U.S. Exposed As Biggest Importer Of Brutal Industry In New Report] Reference

The long-tailed animal lost no time in making a grab for it, and soon he was chewing it hungrily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City] Reference

That rationalization lasted until he encountered a small herd of long-eared, long-tailed browsers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running from the Deity]

In fact, the boy, from a backside view at a little distance, seemed to be wearing a long-tailed coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

She started for the hall to get her garment, while Bunny petted the wet head of the long-tailed animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference

Among mammals, only the endemic long-tailed mouse Pseudomys higginsi occurs principally in the rain forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference

Vizcachas (Lagostomus maximus) are soft-furred South American rodents that look like long-tailed guinea pigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 Agouti] Reference

Two women walkers spotted a long-tailed feline walking through the brush below the trees below Cougar's rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Fifty or a hundred long-tailed red-and-green birds winged over their heads, filling the air with chattering cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

Bunny wanted to know, for he had heard that there were plenty of the big, scaly and long-tailed creatures in Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference

My brother Hal has got his first long-tailed coat already; I am really afraid I never shall have anything but a jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

Dan Rather said some unbelievably wonderful things, you know, "Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of wreckers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Political Comic Kate Clinton Shares Her Take on Election 2000 - November 12, 2000] Reference

Habit had me fluttering my lashes, though in truth I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunting]

There is much of the primitive not outgrown as yet by Charleston: it has put on a long-tailed coat over its round-about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

He pointed at long-tailed magpies fluttering between white pines, at a large dark shape cantering lightly across a glade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just a Corpse at Twilight]

"Well, sure, but I know if I were up to his kind of shenanigans, I'd be as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [While Other People Sleep]

Crawling up out of the river to the shore of the small island were a number of the long-tailed, scaly creatures with the big snouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference

The Manx cat possesses an abbreviated tail, although in other respects it is practically the same as the familiar long-tailed form; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference

One also sees numbers of a large grey, long-tailed monkey, which seem to preferably attach themselves to old and ruined temples or tombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Against the side of the terrace, as if materializing into solidity at that moment, appeared two hundred pounds of supple, rangy, long-tailed cat .    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]

And the other man might have been taken for a traveling preacher in his long-tailed black suitcoat, pants of moleskin, white shirt with a black cravat at the stand-up collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]