hang-dogs

I went to-day accordingly, and saw him among half a dozen lawyers and attorneys and hang-dogs, signing of deeds and stuff before his journey; for he goes to-morrow to Vienna.

The Journal to Stella 2003

He keeps it 'tiff we're out of sight, then tears it up and hang-dogs after us for more litter.

The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

Perhaps, dear citizen who permits and pays his hang-dogs to lace the jacket for you -- perhaps you are unacquainted with the jacket.

The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

Do they, your hang-dogs, O smug citizen, do these your hang-dogs fear to gaze upon the facial horror of the horror they perpetrate for you and ours and at your behest?

The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

I, who am to be hanged this year, the nineteen-hundred-and-thirteenth after Christ, ask these questions of you who are assumably Christ's followers, of you whose hang-dogs are going to take me out and hide my face under a black cloth because they dare not look upon the horror they do to me while I yet live.

The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

After that he lays himself down with a will, which is the will of the hang-dogs, which is your will, dear citizen, who feeds and fees the hang-dogs for doing this thing for you.

The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

They are not the agitators; it is the idle hang-dogs who form the disturbing element in the village.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

Whereupon two hang-dogs stepped forward, and cried with loud voices, ` Behold us here, O wise and just one. '

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

Whereupon two hang-dogs stepped forward, and cried with loud voices, 'Behold us here, O wise and just one.'

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

I went to-day accordingly, and saw him among half a dozen lawyers and attorneys and hang-dogs, signing of deeds and stuff before his journey; for he goes to-morrow to Vienna.

The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706