"There's a cat's-paw of wind coming towards us," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

Informed with his will and wisdom, the Elsinore was no cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XXX] Reference

He, too, is only a cat's-paw, it seems, but a bigger one than Vosta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rilloby Fair Mystery]

His wife, upon this occasion, was to help him by acting as cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

Is Johnny her new red-hot lover, or a cat's-paw for her latest heist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference

I'd learned enough from him to realize that he'd been but a cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood of Amber]

'I see what you are after; but you'll not wheedle me: I am no cat's-paw.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

I can't be thankful enough that for once she didn't make a cat's-paw of me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly and the Princess] Reference

No organization that includes Russia could possibly be America's cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

"It's easy to see that you have been made a cat's-paw of, Janetta," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

American propaganda by using the Industrial Unions of Russia as their cat's-paw?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Conspiracy] Reference

She would use me to do those things she cannot-but I would be no more than her cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

"It'll be a fine exposure for Monks, too, if this fellow proves he was only a cat's-paw for them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick Lionheart] Reference

Israel was "doing the Lord's work," defending freedom against the "Iranian cat's-paw" of terrorism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peter Principle Playoffs] Reference

If anything, he was more eager than I was to find out who was using his administration as a cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Misplaced Battleship] Reference

But Hecate found a cat's-paw with too pure a heart, because he urged me to remain until the proper time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference

Irish conspirators have never risen to play any part higher than the office of cat's-paw to a foreign nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference

There is Brunow, who was the fatal cause of it all; and the Baroness Bonnar, who made her cat's-paw of him; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

"The gale has completely blown itself out, and there's only a little cat's-paw of a breeze from the south'ard.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

If he thought he could engineer a removal of Darnley in like fashion, using Bothwell as cat's-paw, he was mistaken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

She neither liked nor trusted him, but he was useful in this matter and would do as a cat's-paw until she was finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witches' Brew]

No one cared; every eye was scanning the horizon for the first hint of the next cat's-paw of wind creeping towards them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

Mr.M. recommends, as the best mode of cultivation for barren soils, to plough with a cat's-paw, and manure with Macassar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference

'We know you're only the miserable little cat's-paw - taking money from the big men to hold your tongue and obey orders.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Go Off To Camp]

A cat's-paw of breeze fanned him with sudden balmy warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

Incur no responsibility, or you will be made a cat's-paw of.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War] Reference

To say that Rickie was a cat's-paw is to put it too strongly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Longest Journey] Reference

"No, it is only a cat's-paw," he rejoined (a mere puff of wind).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Retrospect] Reference

"And here's the cat's-paw that's to pull thy chestnuts from the fire!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference

Having made a cat's-paw of Giovanna -- through the person of her lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference

But he, Maurice, was not going to allow himself to be made a cat's-paw of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Blood] Reference

Irish shores and strike at England with the cat's-paw of an Irish rebellion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798] Reference

Ha! You do not see, my lord, that you are no more than their tool, their cat's-paw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference

What a hot day this has been -- not a cat's-paw on the water, and the sky all of a mist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Simple] Reference

If I had thoroughly known him I should never have been a willing cat's-paw in a very ugly game.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

Trench's, and has been so from the beginning, the Duke being a mere cat's-paw of that impudent Irish pretender.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference

Napoleon III. wished to make a cat's-paw of this country, and was sanguine enough to believe that Her Majesty's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord John Russell] Reference

Yes, and when it is a flat calm, with here and there a tiny cat's-paw crinkling the water into gray-green crepe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back Home] Reference