Bull-dog

Bull-dog, you idiot, you numbskull, you stupid ignoramus, you dolt, you ... insert insult here from your many pathetic posts -- you do your side a disservice by your silliness.

Resident trolls afraid to comment on Frankenbill??? JEP07 2009

Cape Noon, in 1790; the crew was redeemed by me, and brought to my house at Santa Cruz, after being upwards of two years in captivity in the Desert: and I sent them all from Santa Cruz to Mogodor on mules, where, after remaining about two months, the Bull-dog sloop of war came down from Gibraltar for them, and they were sent off to her by the imperial order.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

Of all dogs, none surpass in obstinacy and ferocity the Bull-dog.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

Between Port Mahon and Majorca, however, Lord Nelson fell in with the Bull-dog, ten days from Rear-Admiral Duckworth, at Gibraltar; who, giving little or no credit to the report of the ships seen off Cape

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

It was regularly acknowledged to "One of the Bull-dog Breed."

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Various

Lord Nelson mentions that, Sir Edward Berry having joined the Foudroyant, by the Bull-dog, he has put Captain Hardy into the Princess Charlotte; and, mustering a few men, intends taking her with him to sea.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

"Spanish Bull-dog" was that his name should not be known in the event of the match being mentioned in the papers; so Harrah had complied by introducing him to his friends by any humorous appellation which occurred to him.

The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

Behind him, the big one -- that huge chap with the black eyes, is the mysterious Samson from the West who whipped the 'Spanish Bull-dog.'

The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

Bull-dog pluck, the stubborn spirit of the Island race and so forth, but when those who can boast a little of the sacred French blood are in a mood of set despair (both kinds march on, and the mobility of either infantry is much the same), I say I had long got to this point of exhaustion when it occurred to me that I should need an excellent and thorough meal at midday.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

When you were at the University (let me congratulate you on your degree) you edited, or helped to edit, _The Bull-dog_.

Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878