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- adjective Attributive form of
bush dog , noun.
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Examples
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Once, Terrence, who was nearly as large as an Airedale and fully as lion-hearted — Terrence the Magnificent, as Tom Haggin called him — had caught such a bush-dog trespassing on the beach and given him a delightful thrashing, in which Jerry and Michael, and Patsy and Kathleen, who were at the time alive, had joined with many shrill yelps and sharp nips.
Chapter 1 2010
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She told him that he was no common bush-dog, but a blooded Irish gentleman, and that no dog that was a gentleman ever did such things as chase unoffending black men.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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Then, too, there was usually at least one bush-dog on the Arangi at which Jerry and Michael, from the beach, could bark their heads off.
Chapter 1 2010
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May 15th, 2008 10: 35 am ET after what bush-dog trader just said to is. he needs to call mcsain over there and both of them go straight to h - what a trader to his country and if mcsain agrees with him he is no better
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Then, too, there was usually at least one bush-dog on the Arangi at which Jerry and Michael, from the beach, could bark their heads off.
Chapter 1 1917
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Once, Terrence, who was nearly as large as an Airedale and fully as lion-hearted -- Terrence the Magnificent, as Tom Haggin called him -- had caught such a bush-dog trespassing on the beach and given him a delightful thrashing, in which Jerry and Michael, and Patsy and
Chapter 1 1917
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She told him that he was no common bush-dog, but a blooded Irish gentleman, and that no dog that was a gentleman ever did such things as chase unoffending black men.
Chapter 23 1917
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Then, too, there was usually at least one bush-dog on the _Arangi_ at which Jerry and Michael, from the beach, could bark their heads off.
Jerry of the Islands Jack London 1896
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Once, Terrence, who was nearly as large as an Airedale and fully as lion - hearted -- Terrence the Magnificent, as Tom Haggin called him -- had caught such a bush-dog trespassing on the beach and given him a delightful thrashing, in which Jerry and Michael, and Patsy and Kathleen, who were at the time alive, had joined with many shrill yelps and sharp nips.
Jerry of the Islands Jack London 1896
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Australia, 1,500 miles away, is peculiar enough in its living products, quite unlike the rest of the world in its egg-laying duck-mole and spiny ant-eater, and in its abundant and varied population of pounched mammals or marsupials, emphasized by the absence (except for two or three peculiar little mice and the late-arrived black-fellow and bush-dog) of the regular type called
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