war-dog

Marcus saw a lowborn merchant pull a few hearty war-dog pups from a basket.

G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

In 1918, Duncan found a bombed-out German war-dog kennel in Lorraine, France, that contained a German shepherd and her litter of pups.

Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010

"The sorceress slew the war-dog; young Hadrenn could not have done so himself."

Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

He is a reactionary, of the old, diehard, war-dog school.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

So reverend and thoughtful is the old grey-muzzled town that it is hard to recognise the bristling war-dog that bestrode the toughest centuries, snarled in the face of Fate, and pulled down Time.

Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

"Good-by, old war-dog!" growled the colonel, in an Anglo-Saxon effort to disguise emotion.

Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

Urbino, was ruled by Giulio Cesare Varano, an old war-dog of seventy years of age, ruthless and bloodthirsty, who owed his throne to his murder of his own brother.

The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912

This State, lying on the Eastern spurs of the Apennines, midway between Spoleto and Urbino, was ruled by Giulio Cesare Varano, an old war-dog of seventy years of age, ruthless and bloodthirsty, who owed his throne to his murder of his own brother.

The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912

"Good-by, old war-dog!" growled the colonel, in an Anglo-Saxon effort to disguise emotion.

Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

When he had appeared, on his way to the trenches, an hour earlier, the Germans had opened fire on him, merely for their own amusement -- upon the same merry principle which always led them to shoot at an Ally war-dog.

Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907