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  • 'Wich editor?' he snapped like a young bullterrier.

    Local Color 2010

  • Douglas fled Hollywood to settle first in Bakersfield, a desert town she terms "hotter than hell," and later in Las Vegas, where she subsists on Social Security with a bullterrier named Magdalene.

    It Happened One Night ... at MGM Stenn, David 2003

  • And Patton had had dogs all his life, and he got some of his aides and friends over there to -- to scout out, and they found this bullterrier, which he had had another name, but he readapted him and called him Willie.

    Patton: A Genius for War 1996

  • Willie was an English bullterrier who had belonged to an RAF pilot, and the pilot, unfortunately, was lost in a raid over Germany.

    Patton: A Genius for War 1996

  • It was not Tom who was entering, but a man in a sealskin cap and a blue plush waistcoat, carrying a pack on his back, and followed closely by a bullterrier of brindled coat and defiant aspect.

    III. A Voice from the Past. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation 1917

  • 'Wich editor?' he snapped like a young bullterrier.

    Local Colour 1906

  • A bullterrier, or an Airedale, would have charged on at his foe, and would have let himself be hacked to pieces before loosing his hold on the man.

    Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Then she used coarse language -- not to me, but to the bullterrier -- till she coughed with exhaustion.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Hi i have a 9 yo male desexed bullterrier x and whenever i do gardening and plant things in the garden within a day or two he digs it up i have no idea what to do he drives me crazy

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2009

  • Answerbag UK We are thinking about getting a 15mth old staffordshire bullterrier she very friendly and likes my children but doesnt live with children shes having to be rehomed as owners are moving and cant take her i worry that she wont adapt to living with my kids

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2008

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