bandogs

Within the Pale, the exceedingly corrupt administration of recent years was overhauled by Sir Nicholas Arnold; who was no respecter of persons, but outside the Pale regarded the Irish -- in his own words -- as so many "bears and bandogs" who were best employed in ravaging and cutting each other's throats.

England under the Tudors

"The bandogs bayed and howled," as they did round the secret bower of the

The Mark Of Cain Andrew Lang 1878

With such bandogs to lie in wait for trespassers, should he not be grateful?

Drift from Two Shores Bret Harte 1869

They pray us that it would please us to let them still haul us and wrong us with their bandogs and pursuivants; and that it would please the Parliament that they may yet have the whipping, fleecing, and flaying of us in their diabolical courts, to tear the flesh from our bones, and into our wide wounds, instead of balm, to pour in the oil of tartar, vitriol, and mercury.

Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

They pray us that it would please us to let them still haul us and wrong us with their bandogs and pursuivants; and that it would please the Parliament that they may yet have the whipping, fleecing, and flaying of us in their diabolical courts, to tear the flesh from our bones, and into our wide wounds, instead of balm, to pour in the oil of tartar, vitriol, and mercury.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

They pray us that it would please us to let them still haul us and wrong us with their bandogs and pursuivants; and that it would please the Parliament that they may yet have the whipping, fleecing, and flaying of us in their diabolical courts, to tear the flesh from our bones, and into our wide wounds, instead of balm, to pour in the oil of tartar, vitriol, and mercury.

Historical Papers, Part 3, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

“On the next Thursday I exhort the family, and will, with God’s blessing, so wrestle with the demon of wrath and violence, which hath entered into my little flock, that I trust to hound the wolf out of the fold, as if he were chased away with bandogs.”

The Abbot 2008

"'Sufferin' cats! 'says I.' Then is every play I make -- henceforth and forever, amen -- to be gaumed up by a mess of hirelin 'bandogs? Persecutin'

Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901