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  • The group rescued the pit bull-terrier mix on the day he was slated to be euthanized at a Baltimore animal shelter.

    Complaint filed over Adams Morgan dog shooting Matt Zapotosky 2010

  • In another, he poses with his bull-terrier, Motomoto.

    Former Sex Mogul Vows to Clean Up Thai Corruption James Hookway 2011

  • Young Lord Varinas was smoking an immense Meerschaum pipe, while Captain Hugues was employed with a cigar: that violent little devil Tandyman, with his little bull-terrier between his legs, was tossing for shillings with all his might (that fellow was always at some game or other) against

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • The dog had the nose of a retriever, the speed of a greyhound, and the strength of a bull-terrier.

    Prester John 2005

  • As he stood tapping one of his boots with his whip, he looked for all the world like a bull-terrier.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • Having been sworn in at the East India House, Burton went down to Greenwich, whence on 18th June, 1842, after being “duly wept over,” he, in company with his beautifully built bull-terrier of renowned pedigree, set sail for Bombay.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • A little, dark gentleman — Mr. Green — so formed and dressed as exactly to resemble a liver-and-tan bull-terrier, who with his heels on the table was dosing, cigar in mouth, over the last “Galignani,” positively refused, after a time, — for at first he would not speak at all, — to let me take my passage till three in the afternoon.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Here Burton regaled his eyes with the sights familiar to his youth; the walks he had taken with his bull-terrier, the tank or pond where he used to charioteer the “ghastly” crocodile,291 the spot where he had met the beautiful Persian, and the shops which had once been his own; while he recalled the old familiar figures of hook-nosed Sir

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Burton left England for Trieste 24th October 1872,271 but the popular belief that he entered the town with a fighting cock under his arm and a bull-terrier at his heels lacks foundation.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Seventeen men found guilty in the Brits Regional Court on charges arising from an illegal pit bull-terrier fight would be sentenced on Wednesday, SABC radio reported on Monday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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