bull-pups

We had intended to wait until we received an offer to purchase and then to freeze on to the vendor with the tenacity of bull-pups.

Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933

We had intended to wait until we received an offer to purchase and then to freeze on to the vendor with the tenacity of bull-pups.

Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933

And Ramon's round somewhere, -- he and the bull-pups; if worse comes to worse, I can call the dogs.

Ramona 1921

Did bull-pups snarl at me, or dons, with bent backs, acknowledge my salute?

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

Speaking of bull-pups that turned out to be terriers naturally calls to mind the case of my old friend Jeremiah Simpkins 'son.

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace Lorimer 1902

At last Girl posed Chum, herself, her draperies constituting a nebulous background; and the artist, walking warily, adjusted his instrument, and the sun which shines alike on saints and bull-pups, painted the squatter's portrait.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

Let us see what sort of sport the bull-pups make in the baiting of him!

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

And Ramon's round somewhere, -- he and the bull-pups; if worse comes to worse, I can call the dogs.

Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857

Ariel, the Warner, the Perry, the Taggart, the Jersey Blue -- even the hulky old Trenton -- not forgetting those saucy little bull-pups of the current, the steamtugs.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

He had no idea of those ancient bull-pups, those solemn ante-revolutionary barkers, which our grandsire used upon harder heads than his, at Camden and the Eutaws.

Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838