setting-dog

But the open casket contained matter, or rather metal, so attractive to old Trapbois, that he remained fixed, like a setting-dog at a dead point, his nose advanced, and one hand expanded like the lifted forepaw, by which that sagacious quadruped sometimes indicates that it is a hare which he has in the wind.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Hen-harriers fly low over heaths or fields of corn, and beat the ground regularly like a pointer or setting-dog.

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

Horace Walpole describes Birch as 'a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about like a young setting-dog in quest of anything, new or old, and with no parts, taste, or judgment. '

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

` ` Awa to the town about the captain's fowling-gun, and his setting-dog. ''

The Antiquary 1845

"Awa to the town about the captain's fowling-gun, and his setting-dog."

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Awa to the town about the captain's fowling-gun, and his setting-dog."

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

Trapbois, that he remained fixed, like a setting-dog at a dead point, his nose advanced, and one hand expanded like the lifted forepaw, by which that sagacious quadruped sometimes indicates that it is a hare which he has in the wind.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Walpole describes Birch as 'a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about like a young setting-dog in quest of anything, new or old, and with no parts, taste, or judgment. '

Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767

Three or four have struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch, (376) who was a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about like a young setting-dog in quest of any thing, new or old, and with no parts, taste, or judgment.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

In this irregular country we can stand on an eminence and see them beat the fields over like a setting-dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756