sleuth-hounds

They are my father's men, you know, his paid sleuth-hounds.

THEFT 2010

Here was a man who understood and who would verify my true story to the faces of those sleuth-hounds.

Confession 2010

And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day.

The Sleeping Wolf 2010

The sleuth-hounds of the press, long fretting on the leash, were loose, full cry.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

The sleuth-hounds of the press, long fretting on the leash, were loose, full cry.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

The West Riding men are sleuth-hounds in pursuit of money.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

This, however, was stark madness, so we galloped on, with the royalists like sleuth-hounds on our track.

For The Admiral W.J. Marx

"From the hands of the police, who are now, as I speak, on my track; from the Russian Government, to which I shall be delivered; from the death, or worth than death, which their sleuth-hounds will mete out to me."

A Bachelor's Dream

But how did he evade the fangs of scepticism and idealism -- to say nothing of destroying -- these sleuth-hounds which on this road were sure to be down upon his track the moment they got wind of him?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Henry of Bearn had thrust back his assailants; they were running fast, and his horsemen were hanging on their heels like sleuth-hounds.

For The Admiral W.J. Marx