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  • His basset-hound features descend into drooping jowls and a natty goatee.

    Rampage 2008

  • Hume suggests, with his tired basset-hound eyes radiating wisdom and pity, that that most piously invoked and highly prized facet of one's being (i.e., one's "faith") is a function of conscious will, that one can jump from religion to religion simply by deciding to, the way one might change cellular services.

    Ellis Weiner: My Message of Redemption for Brit Hume 2010

  • His basset-hound features descend into drooping jowls and a natty goatee.

    Rampage 2008

  • His basset-hound features descend into drooping jowls and a natty goatee.

    Rampage 2008

  • A tall man with basset-hound eyes, Mr. Kelley, 68, is reluctant to take much credit for his charitable deeds.

    Tough Times for Town Fathers 2009

  • With his basset-hound eye bags, the short FBI chief looked like the antonym of Daly.

    Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • It helped that he looked so trustworthy, like a small-town doctor, with his glasses and bow tie and basset-hound face.

    The Audacity of Hope Obama, Barack 2006

  • It helped that he looked so trustworthy, like a small-town doctor, with his glasses and bow tie and basset-hound face.

    The Audacity of Hope Obama, Barack 2006

  • He had a gray moustache, basset-hound jowls, and a Santa Claus belly.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He had a gray moustache, basset-hound jowls, and a Santa Claus belly.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

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