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- noun Plural form of
hangdog .
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Examples
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After that he lays himself down with a will, which is the will of the hangdogs, which is your will, dear citizen, who feeds and fees the hangdogs for doing this thing for you.
Chapter 7 2010
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At any rate, being a lifer, and the penalty in California for battery by a lifer being death, I was so found guilty by a jury which could not ignore the asseverations of the guard Thurston and the rest of the prison hangdogs that testified, and I was so sentenced by a judge who could not ignore the law as spread plainly on the statute book.
Chapter 22 2010
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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 hangdogs 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.
Chapter 3 2010
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Perhaps, dear citizen who permits and pays his hangdogs to lace the jacket for you — perhaps you are unacquainted with the jacket.
Chapter 7 2010
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Not only is it a dirty game, degrading to the hangdogs who personally perpetrate it for
Chapter 22 2010
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Do they, your hangdogs, O smug citizen, do these your hangdogs fear to gaze upon the facial horror of the horror they perpetrate for you at your behest?
Chapter 3 2010
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After that he lays himself down with a will, which is the will of the hangdogs, which is your will, dear citizen, who feeds and fees the hangdogs for doing this thing for you.
Chapter 7 1915
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Not only is it a dirty game, degrading to the hangdogs who personally perpetrate it for
Chapter 22 1915
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Perhaps, dear citizen who permits and pays his hangdogs to lace the jacket for youperhaps you are unacquainted with the jacket.
Chapter 7 1915
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At any rate, being a lifer, and the penalty in California for battery by a lifer being death, I was so found guilty by a jury which could not ignore the asseverations of the guard Thurston and the rest of the prison hangdogs that testified, and I was so sentenced by a judge who could not ignore the law as spread plainly on the statute book.
Chapter 22 1915
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