mastiff's

Hornby's voice is a cross between a mastiff's growl and a bull's snort.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Tartar: you are my mastiff's cousin: I think you as much like him as a man can be like a dog. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Gabbett clutched the mastiff's throat with iron hand, and forced him to loose his hold; then, bellowing with fury, seized his axe and sprang forward, mangled as he was, upon the nearest soldier.

For the term of his natural life 2004

MR. RICH: Among the rest, what d'ye do with that huge, bulky coachman, with his curling whiskers like a Dutch mastiff's tail?

The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999

Item: as the Bay of Pigs waggled and waxed as Castro's Waterloo, the mendacious mastiff's minor miscreant minions mined Miami's Negro section with rat-poison-riddled Heroin!

American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995

We realize the strength of the mastiff's powerful jaws, and are not _amazed_ at what he did -- we are now rather inclined to feel sympathy for the helpless little terrier.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester

And then rising to her feet, with her head held high, her guitar on one arm, and the other hand still on the mastiff's head, she said:

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

He turns, as if in answer, to the scattered rags of a silken coat, some of which still hang in the mastiff's jaws; then his gaze travels through the verandah, down the zig-zag path towards the jungle.

When the Birds Begin to Sing Harold Piffard

Muriel rushed to his aid and putting her pistol to the mastiff's head shot it dead.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

But Tennyson's was not by any means "the lordly mastiff's port."

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann