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  • Her favorite targets are the younger cocker spaniel's legs, my service dog's nose, my dad's ankles, and my mom's face.

    My day: Ninja Squirrel, Dim Bulb and I want to be a Cat Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • But my melancholy spaniel's quest, my game is sprung, and I must suddenly come down and follow.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • When they arrived, the older son dismounted and tossed the eagle to the ground, where she shook down her feathers and stood placidly as he patted her head, much as one would pat a spaniel's.

    Sovereigns of the Sky 2001

  • When they arrived, the older son dismounted and tossed the eagle to the ground, where she shook down her feathers and stood placidly as he patted her head, much as one would pat a spaniel's.

    Sovereigns of the Sky 2001

  • We spent a few minutes arguing about which of us was frightened of dogs; whether mastiffs were supposed to be gentle or fierce; whether a dog was attracted to the smell of menstrual blood, the way bears are; whether our grandmother's cocker spaniel's name had been Brandy or Biscuit.

    Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

  • The spaniel's chest had been crushed between metal and earth.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • It was on the small side, tawny in hue, with golden-brown eyes, a slender white-tipped tail, and shaggy ears that hung down on either side of its face in a manner reminiscent of a cocker spaniel's.

    The Servant Problem Robert F. Young 1950

  • He got the spaniel's head in his hands and let the delighted Loony lick his face till it was wet all over.

    The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

  • The King made some answer I did not hear, and led the Queen to a seat; then, patting the Dauphin's head much in the manner of one patting a spaniel's back, he looked around.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • The Dark Brown, -- brown spaniel's hair mixed with a little violet camlet, warp with yellow silk, wings, grey feather from mallard.

    The Teesdale Angler R Lakeland

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