quick-scented

John Hepburn, then Bishop of Brechin, would not naturally have been quick-scented to detect heresy in one who stood so high with his good friend Erskine of Dun; but David Betoun, Abbot of Arbroath, often resided at the mansion-house of Ethie, half-way between Arbroath and

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

An excellent quick-scented dog always went some paces before the others, stretched out his nose towards all quarters, and when he scented custom-house officers, turned back, which was the signal for immediate flight.

A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals Percy J. Billinghurst

This was a lie; it was Miss Beatrice herself who was fond of him, but not even her mother, keen and quick-scented as she was, could have guessed it from her impassive face.

Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

The quick-scented dogs were soon on the start, and when I saw that they resembled blood hounds, [G] I had serious apprehensions for my safety; but a call from their master, which they obeyed with prompt discipline, put my fears to rest.

Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. Daniel Collins

An excellent, quick-scented dog always went some paces before the others, stretched out his nose toward all quarters, and when he scented custom house officers, turned back, which was the signal for immediate flight.

Anecdotes of Animals Unknown

The Sun striking the tops of the mountains with his early rays, I was wont generally to go with youthful ardor into the woods, to hunt; but I neither suffered my servants, nor my horses, nor my quick-scented hounds to go {with me}, nor the knotty nets to attend me;

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847