| 1. | Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what is called in painting, an ensemble, that is to say, a person and a thing the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene who was sleeping therein. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |