bull-terriers

London coaches — a stage in and out — and might be seen swaggering through the courts in pink of early mornings, and indulged in dice and blind-hookey at nights, and never missed a race or a boxing-match; and rode flat-races, and kept bull-terriers.

The Book of Snobs 2006

I also picked up a splendid Persian cat in the bazaars, and I had brought over with me a young pet St. Bernard dog, two brindle bull-terriers and two of the Yarborough breed, and I added later a Kurdish pup.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

It produced a breed of bull-terriers of renowned pedigree which for their

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

The divisions created by decades of apartheid are also symbolised by the muscular bull-terriers snarling behind the gates of white suburban houses.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

He sipped his coffee and glanced at me shyly; I sensed that I was expected to draw him out, so I asked why he thought bull-terriers particularly untrustworthy.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

The young men had close-clipped hair and looked like clever bull-terriers, but the older men wore long pigtails wound round their heads in black, rope-like coils.

The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

And one had to admit that it took a lot of squaring, for dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivalled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear.

My Man Jeeves 1928

George, really upon Margaret, and extremely ill-advised in that at his heels gambolled his three bull-terriers.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

IS crop-eared bull-terriers were yapping before the fire while our host was showing us his moss-bag.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

English the verb is taesen or tosen, so that the names Teaser and Towser, sometimes given to bull-terriers, are doublets.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909