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  • He crosses the fire road we came in on twice, as I cross back, my step-dad sees me and the deer (said I looked like a blood-hound on the trail) as I make it to the deer I hear a shot.

    OK here's your chance. What is your most interesting hunting or fishing story? 2009

  • He had a dog he called "Mars," a big, splendid brute, part deer-hound and part blood-hound, and resembling both.

    MOON-FACE 2010

  • He crosses the fire road we came in on twice, as I cross back, my step-dad sees me and the deer (said I looked like a blood-hound on the trail) as I make it to the deer I hear a shot.

    OK here's your chance. What is your most interesting hunting or fishing story? 2009

  • And Toby, a blood-hound, appears in the Holmes stories several times.

    Collaboration in the Stygian Swamp | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right scent.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading his bandog, a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.

    Waverley 2004

  • Earnscliff started; the Recluse appeared not to observe his surprise, and proceeded — “The trumpet will blow, the young blood-hound will lap blood, and I will laugh and say, For this I have preserved thee!”

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • My Lady hath a black blood-hound, that runneth on before.

    The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

  • Harold Rosenberg, in his review of Marcel Ophuls's The Memory of Justice, refers to Les Misérables and to Jean Valjean's rescue of the "blood-hound Inspector Jouvet" (sic) in a manner that is altogether misleading.

    'The Memory of Justice': An Exchange Brombert, Victor 1977

  • Morgan and Dad Carter entered the mine by a new shaft and tunnel which appeared on no map, by a dry rock route which was intended to puzzle even a blood-hound.

    The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966

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