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“Except?” queried Teddy, his eyes narrowing, like a fox-hound on the scent.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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“Except?” queried Teddy, his eyes narrowing, like a fox-hound on the scent.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Spike had plenty of plans of his own, mind, and the Big Bad was not about to sign on to play lapdog—or even fox-hound—to a vampire fresh out of the dirt.
KING OF THE DEAD CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN 2001
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An 'wiry terrier game an' keen an 'fox-hound fleet and true. cho: Hark away!
The Kielder Hunt 1998
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When he came upon any grand idea, he opened upon it full swell, with all the energy of a fine fox-hound on a hot trail.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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It was a good-sized wolf, as large as a fox-hound.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various
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Sporting dogs, -- the setter, the pointer, the fox-hound, and all the several varieties of hound, have had their historians, from Dame
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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Oolik Lomen or Margaret Winston, that new fox-hound Russ Downing just got from Kentucky.
Baldy of Nome Esther Birdsall Darling
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I had no stick, and tried all I could to fright her by imitating the bark of a fox-hound, which only irritated her the more, and if I had not retreated a few paces back she would have seized me: when I set up an haloo she started.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry
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_Memorandum_: Let the next emigrant to this colony bring a good strong fox-hound bitch with him; he will find it to his advantage.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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