sheep-biting

• “And as to this sheep-biting habit of his, why it is the _nature_ of dogs to kill sheep.”

  Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities.

• “If this is not sufficient, some of the wool is dipped in train oil, and put into the dog's mouth, which is sewed up for many hours in order to cure him of sheep-biting.”

  The Dog

• “V. i.359 (135,8) [show your sheep-biting face, and be hang'd an hour 'Will't not off?]”

  Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

• “Our phrase on such occasions is simply; _show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged_.”

  Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

• “I suppose it was written thus, _show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged -- an 'how? wilt not off_?”

  Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

• “Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!”

  B3ta

• “Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you! show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!”

  Measure for Measure

• “So, back with that pitiful sheep-biting visage of thine, or I will fling thee from the window of the tower, and try if your juggling skill can save your bones.””

  Kenilworth

• “Show your knave’s visage, with a pox to you! show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!”

  Measure for Measure

• “How like a sheep-biting rogue, _taken i 'the manner_,”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859

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