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They are less easily excited off their balance; they can recognize and obey their master's voice in the scuffle and rage of battle; and they never fly into nervous hysterics such as are common, say, with fox-terriers.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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Trotting around the wheel-house to the shady lee-side of it, he came upon his fate; for be it known that Captain Duncan possessed on board in addition to two fox-terriers, a big Persian cat, and that cat possessed a litter of kittens.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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At that moment Michael was lying squirming on his back a dozen feet away, his legs straight up in the air, both fox-terriers worrying with well-stimulated ferociousness.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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Friendly to all, he reserved his love for Steward alone, though he was not above many an undignified romp with the fox-terriers.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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He could only gesture around from the dying cat to his torn clothes and bleeding wounds and the fox-terriers licking their injuries and whimpering at his feet.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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Not with the smouldering, smothering, choking hysteria that still worked in the fox-terriers did he listen, nor with quivering of muscles and jumps of over-wrought nerves, but coolly, composedly, as if no battle royal had just taken place and no rips of teeth and kicks of feet still burned and ached his body.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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Once "her father asked her to wait for him in the lobby of the Knickerbocker Club, and she waited, holding his three fox-terriers on their leashes, until six hours later the doorman sent her home in a carriage."
A marital alliance that proved most formidable Carolyn See 2010
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'My goodness " she was just about to accept your challenge and fight you, too " two fierce little fox-terriers having a scrap!'
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Once "her father asked her to wait for him in the lobby of the Knickerbocker Club, and she waited, holding his three fox-terriers on their leashes, until six hours later the doorman sent her home in a carriage."
A marital alliance that proved most formidable Carolyn See 2010
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They were related to the Carters of Virginia, and so had given two of the most imposing names of that great family to two small fox-terriers that they adored, "King Carter," and "Shirley Carter."
A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter
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