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- noun Plural form of
hell-hound .
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Examples
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One of the hunters, a little dark-eyed man whom his mates called “Smoke,” was telling stories, liberally intersprinkled with oaths and obscenities; and every minute or so the group of hunters gave mouth to a laughter that sounded to me like a wolf-chorus or the barking of hell-hounds.
Chapter 3 2010
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He hid in a hollow tree until after dark, watching “these ravenous hell-hounds” who were “yelping and screaming like so many devils.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Wiltshire is one of the most popular areas for sightings of phantom dogs, shucks or hell-hounds.
intertribal: the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010
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He hid in a hollow tree until after dark, watching “these ravenous hell-hounds” who were “yelping and screaming like so many devils.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He hid in a hollow tree until after dark, watching “these ravenous hell-hounds” who were “yelping and screaming like so many devils.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The study found that despite being in time of accelerating technology, 21st century Britons have not turned their back on ghouls, boggarts, hell-hounds, witches, wizards, banshees and black magic curses, with a whopping 968 reports of demonic activity in the past 25 years.
intertribal: the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010
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Wiltshire is one of the most popular areas for sightings of phantom dogs, shucks or hell-hounds.
the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010
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The study found that despite being in time of accelerating technology, 21st century Britons have not turned their back on ghouls, boggarts, hell-hounds, witches, wizards, banshees and black magic curses, with a whopping 968 reports of demonic activity in the past 25 years.
the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010
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He hid in a hollow tree until after dark, watching “these ravenous hell-hounds” who were “yelping and screaming like so many devils.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Newspaper editorials regularly denounced the “Southern hell-hounds” back east.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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