coach-dog

In one picture you may see the careful housewife mournfully inspecting a moth-eaten garment which she has just taken from a chest that Wardour Street might envy; in another she is energetically cuffing the 'foolish fat scullion,' who has let the spotted Dalmatian coach-dog overturn the cauldron at the fire.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

In front of the horses, and leaping and barking at their heads in a frenzy of excitement, was a spotted coach-dog -- the truck squad's mascot.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

We got out a can of wagon-grease and spotted him artistically to make him look like a coach-dog, which was legitimate, as coach-dogs are notoriously remarkable for lack of courage.

South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

Then out of every door rushed all the house-dogs, the butcher's dog, and the coach-dog, and even the little lap-dog jumped up, and ran down stairs, and out of the door, to join in the barking, and away went all the dogs of the place after the poor wretch.

The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year 1879

Lord Maynard, some years since, lost a coach-dog in France, which he in vain endeavoured to find.

Anecdotes of Dogs Edward Jesse 1824

On my taking them out again, the phaeton was followed by a large coach-dog, about two years old, a fine grown animal, but not well marked, and in very poor condition.

Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820

But with universal suffrage and the coach-dog theory of premiership in full view; the theory, I mean, that the whole duty of a political chief is to look sharp for the way the social coach is driving, and then run in front and bark loud -- as if being the leading noise-maker and guiding were the same things -- it is truly satisfactory to me to know that the laws of nature are increasing in popularity.

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

a banging blind the impetuous coach-dog lurched his sleek weight against the door.

Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

a boy on the pampas sheep-killing dogs were common enough, and they were always curs, or the common dog of the country, a smooth-haired animal about the size of a coach-dog, red, or black, or white.

A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881

a coach-dog: she had just come in for a spent discharge, and had escaped the deluge, which her puce-coloured little boy had received so fully that his whole face and person seemed to partake of the prevailing tint; while yonder old greybeard is dusting his moustache from the red powder which tinges it in strong contrast to the rest of his sallow countenance.

A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home Laurence Oliphant 1858