hunting-dog

"They've got to have the right environment, and they've got to be brought up right," Stilwell says, or all that hunting-dog exuberance can explode into "negative, destructive behavior."

Stilwell: Beware of dog generalizations 2008

That Javert, who has been annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined me, which had divined me — good God! and which followed me everywhere; that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean Valjean.

Les Miserables 2008

For by long training it could be brought about, that the house-dog should become accustomed to hunt, and the hunting-dog to cease from running after hares.

The Ethics 2007

But these philosophers were compelled, by the protest of experience, not from their own principles, to confess, that no slight practice and zeal is needed to control and moderate them: and this someone endeavoured to illustrate by the example (if I remember rightly) of two dogs, the one a house-dog and the other a hunting-dog.

The Ethics 2007

The raptors played havoc with her hunting-dog training–but they had federal protection.

BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching John L. Trapp 2002

It is not dissimilar to whistling for a hunting-dog, which responds to sounds and reacts as it has been trained to do.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

A tall hunting-dog, which had sat quiet by the entry, got up and padded at his heel.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

On their return journey they almost starved, and Cleveland, who was reluctantly forced to kill his faithful little hunting-dog, was wont to declare in after years that it was the sweetest meat he ever ate.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

Two or three times, the terrible volleys from Porte Maillot had made him jump, with his ears pricked up like a hunting-dog; we were obliged to invent a final victory of Bazaine under the walls of Berlin, and guns fired in his honour at the Invalides.

The Siege of Berlin 1917

Any kind of a hunting-dog could have found him in that thicket.

The Lone Star Ranger 1914