puppy-dogs

Man, d'ye hear me? — he plays with them, like you an 'me would play with little puppy-dogs.

Chapter II 2010

They are like great big water-borne puppy-dogs with engaging personalities and their cute "barking" sound.

Boing Boing 2007

“And I?” said the page — “You?” replied Catherine, “you are quite well — who thinks it worth while to poison puppy-dogs or pages?”

The Abbot 2008

Well, to those who are a part of this administration, not seeing poppy fields, killing and maiming can be almost as much fun as shooting baby ducks in the rain barrel, and for the many sadists who have graduated, moved upward and onward from shooting baby Ducks, pulling wings off flies, setting fire to living puppy-dogs, and roasting live Blackbirds on their grills, can now do the same to human targets and with impunity.

Bush Blows Big Bonanza In BagnoloPoll and Others! 2007

When people get a giant statue head launched at them or stomped on from a giant foot...flowers and puppy-dogs don't come pouring out of them.

Cloverfield Rated PG-13 / Updated Film Credits Dennis 2007

There is a danger lest they should taste the dear delight too early; for youngsters, as you may have observed, when they first get the taste in their mouths, argue for amusement, and are always contradicting and refuting others in imitation of those who refute them; like puppy-dogs, they rejoice in pulling and tearing at all who come near them.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

It was filled with slugs and snails and puppy-dogs 'tails, as well as sugar and spice and all things nice.

Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

Europe, as "maids of fifteen are with puppy-dogs;" but the world, my dear Lady Morgan -- an ill-natured, sour, cynical, and suspicious world, envious of your glory, will be apt to call it nil fudge, blarney, or

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 Various

In sunshine, Brighton always looks hot; in moonshine, eternally dreary; the men are yawning all day long, and the women sitting smirking in bay-windows, or walking with puppy-dogs and parasols, which last they are continually opening and shutting.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

Here was not one of Lavinia's lisping, painted puppy-dogs, for in spite of the effeminate curls, it was easy to see that this man had character and a will of his own, and, above all, a great charm of manner.

The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921