Sentence examples for Genet from inspiring English sources

His family kept a genet cat, a duiker and a baboon called Bimbo.

The most common viverrid, however, is the European genet (Genetta genetta), which weighs 1 2.5 kg.

Many are good swimmers, and two species, the aquatic genet (Osbornictis piscivora) and the otter civet (Cynogale bennettii), are semiaquatic.

Except for the small-spotted genet (G. genetta), which also occurs in western Asia and southern Europe, they are found only in Africa.

Among the 28 mammals are the horseshoe bat, polecat, weasel, small-spotted genet, Andalusian horse, mufflon, monk seal, wild boar, badger, rabbit, Spanish red deer, Egyptian mongoose and Iberian lynx.

Carnivores include the fox, the genet, and the rare wildcat.

I've found myself turning to Jean Genet, particularly to Un captif amoureux, the book in which he describes his "Palestinian revolution, told in [his] own chosen order".

Among all these festivals, Aix is the only one offering an important world premiere Peter Eötvös's opera, "Le Balcon", based on a play by Jean Genet, which opens on July 5th.

Jean Genet wrote poems to a "thief-boxer" and a "muscled rose".Their American equivalents are more macho.

Faber & Faber/Profile Books; £10.99Witty and urbane, physically tiny and charming, this account of Queen Elizabeth II discovering the work of J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton-Burnett and other writers is a Swiftian tirade against stupidity and philistinism, and a passionate argument for the civilising power of art.

Other publications of the same period include a book, Baudelaire (1947), a vaguely ethical study on the French writer and poet Jean Genet titled Saint Genet, comédien et martyr (1952; Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr), and innumerable articles that were published in Les Temps Modernes, the monthly review that Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir founded and edited.