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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
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He had a dog he called "Mars," a big, splendid brute, part deer-hound and part blood-hound, and resembling both.
MOON-FACE 2010
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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
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And Toby, a blood-hound, appears in the Holmes stories several times.
Collaboration in the Stygian Swamp | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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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
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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
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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
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My Lady hath a black blood-hound, that runneth on before.
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
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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
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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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