When life feels overwhelming, when something is new or when you're exhausted or you just feel like you wanna, what's that word, nest a little bit and just snuggle in, what is it that you reach for?
" Dagnabbit, get off my property, " he shouts at a raccoon and a litter of babies that are ready to dive headfirst into a witch's cauldron prop that sits in the middle of the lawn.
It is possible that in catching one young, I had picked from too early a litter. No one knew her exact age, but it was somewhere between ten and twelve. At any rate, Georgia was unteachable.
For example, Cat 22, Jane Airedale, Lord of the Fleas, The Grapes of Wrath, Animal Farm, The Great Catsby, The Scarlet Litter, Love in the Time of Cholera, and of course, A Mice and Men.
Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.
She thought she could walk back across the field, and get over the stile; and then, in the very next field, she thought she remembered there was a hovel of furze near a sheepfold.
Well, everybody's favorite except for Herman Melville, who described the squid's arms as " curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas" in his novel, Moby Dick.