sleuth-hound

All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes, the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.

Sole Music 2010

Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth-hound.

Les Miserables 2008

Then the sleuth-hound found a mighty boar; when he began to flee, at once there came the master oœ the hunt and encountered him upon his path.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

Then an old huntsman took a good sleuth-hound and in a short space brought the lord to where many beasts were found.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

When he had felled him, they leashed the sleuth-hound; his rich booty was soon well known to the Burgundian men.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

These persons Moore hunted like any sleuth-hound; and well he liked the occupation: its excitement was of a kind pleasant to his nature: he liked it better than making cloth.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

“Enough said,” replied Lambourne; “I can draw on a scent as well as a sleuth-hound.”

Kenilworth 2004

Blew from some tasseled horn, a sleuth-hound bayed

Collected Poems 2003

Take, for example, the Collision Theory performance company, which tonight debuts Dance, My Darling, Dance, inspired by Dashiell Hammett's sleuth-hound novels.

The Eight-Day Week 2002

And, all the while, the officer wondered how he was going to deal with his sleuth-hound.

The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell