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  • The Blackmouth Cur is a very versatile dog that is eager to please and easily trained but is better suited to larger environments.

    Deer Tracking with Dogs 2008

  • When the gaoler began to describe him whom he called the Curé, Monsieur the Viscount's attention quickened into eagerness, an eagerness deepened by the tender interest that always hangs round the names of those whom we have known in happier and younger days.

    Frances Kane's Fortune L. T. Meade 1884

  • When the gaoler began to describe him, whom he called the Curé, Monsieur the Viscount's attention quickened into eagerness, an eagerness deepened by the tender interest that always hangs round the names of those whom we have known in happier and younger days.

    Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • The year, convoked by the Pontiff, coincides with the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Mary Vianney, known as the Curé d'Ars.

    Cure of Ars & Jenny Catholic Mom of 10 2009

  • His name was Maurice Edmond Sailland and by his friends he was called Cur, or Curne.

    Journey to Gorgonzola Buzzi, Aldo 1993

  • -- Mr. Roylake, does it strike you that the Cur is a sad cynic?

    The Guilty River Wilkie Collins 1856

  • This barely literate eremitical priest, also known as the Curé d'Ars, would spend most of the night flat on his face in church, with only snatches of sleep on the stone floor of his house, using a log for a pillow.

    New Statesman John Cornwell 2010

  • "Cur," yelled a woman in the mob, casting a pebble that struck him on the cheek.

    Pearl-Maiden Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Does anyone have a Black Mouth Cur as a family pet?

    Gentle Maul | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Legus (American Black Mouth Cur) says, "take that you dang ol 'coon, try n eat my Dad's chickens again!"

    Best Gun Dog Contest 2009

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