Pets

Examples

• Why, my pet of pets, I could have told you that weeks and weeks ago! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He seems to be even fonder of his mice than of his other pets, smiles at them, and kisses them, and calls them by all sorts of endearing names. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She would accept nothing but the world of amusement, and the serious people of her life were the animals she had for pets. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Give us a kiss, my pets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No one had ever considered the possibility of eating pork, for in those days pigs were pets, and just as every family today has its dog Rover, so then, every family had its pig Scraps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still and loved her pets as well as ever. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And have these pets got anything on THEIR minds, eh? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I think she likes these small pets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But the Count, apparently, sees nothing ridiculous in the amazing contrast between his colossal self and his frail little pets. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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