Then, there's the peculiar thugs catty-cornered from us. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
He had to bring it through the opening catty-cornered to make it fit. From Wordnik.com. [Werehunter]
I opened the door that's catty-cornered to our back door, and hurried downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Along Came a Spider]
My mother made it from plums gathered from the lot catty-cornered to the one I grew up on. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Secours: When A 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday] Reference
I want to ask you, Mark, what was your reaction when you found out Jessie could possibly have been kept alive for days right catty-cornered from your parents ` house?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2005] Reference
The man in the building, catty-cornered, Roy Beaupain, who had been on the telephone line with us a little bit earlier, had said things did look, from his vantage point, to have significantly called down. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2001] Reference
A few moments later, down in that overheated basement, feeling the detectives breathing down their necks, the techs pick her up again sitting on a wooden bench about ten feet past the corner of Crosby and Prince, catty-cornered from the office building she left, a few steps past the entrance to Savoy. From Wordnik.com. [A Life And Death in CCTV] Reference
Randy Shuler purchased the old Charcoal House building, which is located catty-cornered to. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Times News Headlines] Reference
The location is catty-cornered from the dorms at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and just across Asher Avenue from a huge new apartment complex. From Wordnik.com. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories] Reference
Midway, at the four-way stop with Second Street, the only somewhat viable Davis-related businesses stare catty-cornered at each other: Patina Decor, a decorating shop, and The Status Thimble, specializing in sewing, needlework and quilts. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sacramento Bee political columnist Dan Walters spent months researching the source of the Brown family wealth 30 years ago and recently shared the story with me in his small office crowded with family pictures, catty-cornered from the Capitol. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
The cabinet-organ setting "catty-cornered" beside the roller-towel indicated the presence of womankind, and it indicated correctly, for out in the kitchen was Mrs. Alonzo Snow, and elsewhere about the hotel were her two lovely daughters, the Misses Violet and Rosie Snow, -- facetiously known as "the Snowbirds.". From Wordnik.com. [The Man from the Bitter Roots] Reference
“Well, I should like to know,” continued Fred, “what could be more idiotic than the way you spend your time, you girls, fitting those ridiculous, catty-cornered pieces of silk together, and working them all over with bugs and cobwebs and caterpillars, and little boys in Mother. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
He sat catty-cornered to John. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
Other such survivors are burly, catty-cornered, likely, deft, copious, scant and ornate. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 5. Archaic English Words] Reference
272, 244, 316 catcher, 272 catnip, 126 catridge, 318 catsup, 224 catty-cornered, 68 caucus, n., 39, 43, 50, 157, 161, 401, 420; caucus, v. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
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