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  • Editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel depicted Obama as a greyhound way back in February 2007, while Claudia Presto of the Greyhound Gang recently summed up our President-Elect's houndish traits in her my. barackobama.com comparative top ten list.

    Kira Craft: Greyhounds For Obama 2009

  • The first effects of this spell were to bring up Bell, Blanch, and Hylas, the three flap-eared hounds, who came frisking over the grass with many antics that might be said to resemble the bows and curtsies of the human species, and which were accompanied by the houndish salutation of deep-mouthed howls that the horn never fails to wake up in these animals.

    Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. 1852

  • Woodrow is a 70-pound "probably houndish" dog "with just a little touch of pit bull"

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • Woodrow is a 70-pound "probably houndish" dog "with just a little touch of pit bull"

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • Woodrow is a 70-pound "probably houndish" dog "with just a little touch of pit bull"

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • "_George_ WASHINGTON PUGG; will you come and testify?" said the Squire with an emphasis on all the names, but rising and fairly hammering the last; when a greedy-eyed, brockle-faced, over-grown blade of seventeen opened up like a flax-brake, and loped forward over chairs and benches, responding in a houndish flat-and-treble voice, "_I_ reckon I'll

    Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

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