war-dogs

He would have asked for nothing better than an opportunity to loose his war-dogs on his rebellious proletariat.

Chapter 13: The General Strike 2010

He can influence the blood-thirsty war-dogs, while I resist their propensities vainly.

The Last Man 2003

A pack of shaggy hounds snarled and snapped at leather-mailed war-dogs belonging to the civilized foemen. whose pavilions showed banners of many hues and various devices.

Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

On the next knoll, Eumenes could see the tents of the two commanders, Antigonos and Teutamos; crafty and stubborn old war-dogs, each old enough to be his father.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

We are left stranded high and dry upon times of peace, but the old war-dogs, old heroes, old gentles of the stock and cane -- they had seen the glories of life, and felt the zest of it.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

I at once saw that these were all officers, excepting two or three; smart, well-got-up, gentlemanly-looking little men in the extreme; returning, perhaps, from calling off the last of their bloody war-dogs, or making sure that all resistance had ceased.

Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan

Who knows what they may have thought when they heard their only enemy, man, ring out his bugle-call to slip the war-dogs on his fellows, or when the sharp crack of the rifle told them for the first time of safety to themselves and of death to their wonted destroyers?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Around the ample hearth, during the long winter nights, the war-scarred veterans beguiled the tedium of a soldier's life with stories of battle, siege, and sortie, under Moore and Wellington, in the Peninsular wars; and one or two grizzled old war-dogs had tales to tell of

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

The old war-dogs made more lingering sederunts in the change-houses, the low taverns in the back lands sounded with bragging chorus and debate, and in the room of the Sergeant More the half-pay gentlemen mixed more potently their midday drams.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

But if it be that the sea will have none of me, and the metalled war-dogs drive me, and spar-shattered and hull-battered I make a run of it to harbor in my old age, I shall come in full confidence of a mooring under your roof, Guy.

Wide Courses 1912