Crossword-Solution: CATAMOUNT 9 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Had it been now a catamount, or even a full-size panther, I would have embellished a performance for you worth regarding.

Besides, Master Pathfinder, to say nothing of the savages, you overlook the sharks.” “Sharks! Who ever heard of sharks in the wilderness?” “Ay! Sharks, or bears, or wolves--no matter what you call a thing, so it has the mind and power to bite.” “Lord, lord, man! Do you dread any creatur' that is to be found in the American forest? A catamount is a skeary animal, I will allow, but then it is nothing in the hands of a practysed hunter.

Entering the open throat of the grizzly, it had traversed his body only to enter the throat of the California lion, and in like manner the catamount, until it passed through into the respective foreheads of the bull and the buffalo, and finally fell flattened from the rocky hillside.

The flour pan in which their daily bread was mixed stood on the rude table side by side with the “prospecting pans,” half full of gold washed up from their morning's work; the front windows of the newer tenements looked upon the one single thoroughfare, but the back door opened upon the uncleared wilderness, still haunted by the misshapen bulk of bear or the nightly gliding of catamount.

All this time the catamount screeched upon the reserved lot of the Skyland Board of Trade, the opossum swung by his tail over the site of the exposition hall, and the owl hooted a melancholy recitative to his audience of young squirrels in opera house square.