Citations:Cheshire cat

English citations of Cheshire cat

				1788 1792	1858 1865 1889	1943 1967 1980	2000 2005 2005 2008
ME «	15th c.	16th c.	17th c.	18th c.	19th c.	20th c.	21st c.

1788, Francis Grose, A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London:
CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.

1792, John Wolcot (under the pseudonym Peter Pindar), Pair of Lyric Epistles:
Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin.

1858, Peter Parley [pseudonym; Samuel Griswold Goodrich], “Crossing the Line; or, A Christmas Day at Sea, Being the Adventures of a “Griffin.””, in William Martin, editor, The Hatchups of Me and My School-Fellows, London: Darton and Co., […], pages 108–109:
[…] Mr. Fitzdoodle and his staff apparently greatly delighted with the ceremony, and chuckling with suppressed laughter: the Frenchmen grinning, as the sailors said, like “Cheshire cats.”

1865, Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

"Will you be playing croquet with the Queen today?" the Cheshire-Cat asked.

"I would like to very much," Alice said. "But I haven't been invited yet."

"You'll see me there," the Cheshire-Cat said. Then it vanished.

1889, Mary H. Fiske, “The Inequality of the Sexes”, in Harrison Grey Fiske, editor, The Giddy Gusher Papers, New York, N.Y.: The New York Dramatic Mirror, […], page 155:
Look at that duo of dramatists—Daly and Rowe! They haven’t got a full set of teeth between ’em, all put together. That doesn’t prevent their smiling like Cheshire cats on us girls, and we don’t mind if there is a stage wait between their molars and incisors, or twenty years elapse between their eye-teeth without an event.

1943 November 10, “The Liquor Situation: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Emanuel Celler of New York in the House of Representatives”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 78^th Congress, First Session, Appendix, volume 89, part 12, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page A4960, column 3:
Unless some permission is given to replenish a portion of the supply or unless the taxes are made sensible, it all will be duck soup for moonshiners and bootleggers, and the blue-nose prohibitionists will laugh like Cheshire cats.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 127:
‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.

1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, USA: Random House, →ISBN, page 196:

Eventually, nothing at all survives except, through a special dispensation, the Cheshire cat. […] If we increase the gravity still more, the light is pulled back to the ground near us. Now the cosmic Cheshire cat has vanished; only its gravitational grin remains.

2000, Fred M. Frohock, Lives of the psychics: the shared worlds of science and mysticism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 11:

In the Cheshire Cat experiment, for example, a viewer separates her field of vision with a mirror that reflects a blank area for one eye while the other eye sees a cat (presumably Cheshire). As the viewer moves her hand across the blank area, the cat is diminished and often vanishes.

2005, Michael Robertson Rose, “Cheshire Cat Cost”, in The long tomorrow: how advances in evolutionary biology can help us postpone aging, Oxford University Press USA, →ISBN, pages 53–62:

2005, Steve Augarde, Celandine, quoted edition: London: Corgie Books, 2006, →ISBN, pages 316–317:
She caught the brief flash of Fin’s white teeth as he stopped to wait for her, a Cheshire cat grin in the surrounding gloom.

2008, Brian Meehl, Suck It Up, Random House, →ISBN, page 115:

Unable to hold back a Cheshire-cat grin, Penny stepped next to her. Torn between the exaltation of knowing Diamond Sky PR was about to soar to a new galaxy, and motherly concern, she touched her daughter's arm. "Are you okay?"