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  • Has there been any attempt on the part of the drag or bloodhound to devise a new form of the sport that might suit people that are not used to hunting in any way?
  • The bloodhounds, known as the seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling on the frightful brink of the abyss. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
  • Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. Redgauntlet
  • They scrambled out the door like bloodhounds on the scent.
  • He'd two schooners fishin 'the Labrador in the season, a share in a hundred-ton banker, stock in a south coast whale-factory, God knows how much yellow gold in the bank, an' a round interest in the swiler _Royal Bloodhound_, which he skippered t 'the ice every spring o' the year. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
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  • The Bloodhound can track a scent better, a German Shepherd guards better, a Greyhound is faster, and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel fits much better on your lap than a Timber Wolf ever can!
  • And if this disparate and ill-matched household needed a symbol to crystallize its discordancy, it received it in the shape of a bloodhound puppy, which had acquired the attractive habit of placing its paws on your shoulders while it peed on your legs. An Autobiography
  • The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of the Secret Message, illus. Sid Fleischman (1920-2010)
  • His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.
  • 'Detective Graham's parents ran bloodhound kennels, he learned early. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
  • His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.
  • Footprints were everywhere - from the officers and their bloodhounds - but I did manage to find the two sets that the officer inside had spoken of.
  • After a little good-humoured chaffing and laughing James managed to get rid of the rollicky crew, and shut the court-yard gates, having first made the round of the premises with Turk, the great bloodhound, just to satisfy himself that no loiterer was concealed among the bushes with felonious intentions. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
  • The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
  • To chase a single fox for miles using god knows how many horses, bloodhounds and people is hardly the most effective way of controlling the fox population.
  • The lonely Harlan Pepper, a would-be ventriloquist and believer in animal ESP, has his hopes riding on Hubert the bloodhound.
  • Carl tracks him down in true bloodhound fashion, arriving at a pre-wedding bash just in time to put the kibosh on the nuptials.
  • Indians, or any Englishe [335] dog of quality, as a mastive, [336] greyhound, bloodhounde, lande or water spaniel, or any other dog or bitche whatsoever, of the Englishe race, upon paine of forfaiting Colonial Records of Virginia
  • It was natural, of course, that he should be called a bloodhound; and it did not occur to any one in Regina that his height, his fleetness, and his shaggy black and iron-gray coat were anything but typical of the bloodhound. Jan A Dog and a Romance
  • LYNCH: Well, the bloodhound has been a great resource for us, and has tracked multiple scents. CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2005
  • The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of the 264-Pound Burglar, illus. Sid Fleischman (1920-2010)
  • The County provided bloodhounds on Tuesday night to scour the area in an effort to determine if the girl was killed there or if her body was dumped there.
  • The people are at bay - let the bloodhounds of money who dogged us thus far beware.
  • Wing Cmdr Green is writing a diary for the BBC News Website about his experiences working on the Bloodhound project and the team's efforts to inspire national interest in science and engineering.
  • The bay of the bloodhound was now approaching nearer and nearer, and they could hear the voices of several persons who accompanied the animal, and hallooed to each other as they dispersed occasionally, either in the hurry of their advance, or in order to search more accurately the thickets as they came along. A Legend of Montrose
  • Just let your "bloodhound" use Google Jobs are out there! GOP says even bloodhounds can't find stimulus jobs
  • No trail is laid or dragged and the bloodhounds have such a keen sense of smell that they can follow the scent left by the running shoes.
  • It's his job to groom and care for the prison's bloodhounds and weapons-sniffing dogs.
  • The Bloodhound venture was conceived not just as another record bid but as a project that could inspire children to engage in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects.
  • Running as fast as I could, I followed my prey like a bloodhound to a Siamese cat.
  • Then of course there is the pro-China media, ever ready to unleash the bloodhounds on a scent provided by the opposition parties.
  • Powered by a rocket and a jet engine, the Bloodhound necessitates innovations--such as light but superstrong wheels and "smart" suspension systems--to endure sustained supersonic travel.
  • He was treed by bloodhounds in the swamp on the outskirts of my holdings.
  • Hunting with bloodhounds, or hunting ‘the clean boot’ as it is also known, involves the hounds picking up a human scent left by an athlete who sets off some time before the hunt.
  • Notable breeds in this group include the beagle, basset hound, bloodhound, and the new breed for 2012—the American English coonhound. Westminster Dog Show 2012—as it happened
  • Two police bloodhounds followed the boy's scent to the old house.
  • Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. Wandering Willie’s Tale
  • Now, I've thrown the bloodhounds because they wouldn't stop interfering, trying to be smart.
  • Volatile substances usually strike the bloodhound's nose as an entire constellation of distinctive scents.
  • Imagine a hawk's sight; a sense of smell far superior to a bloodhound's; being able to taste minute traces of impurities in drinking water.
  • A chance to get something done without the media bloodhounds on our heels all the time.
  • He was then given command of the RAF's first Bloodhound ground-to-air missile squadron.
  • She mentioned the possibility of bringing in a bloodhound, because of that breed's particular talent in picking up a scent.
  • Her husband said nothing, and began to talk of something else; but the next morning he ordered his horse, took his spear, called his bloodhound, and set off for the castle. The Brown Fairy Book
  • The highlight of the past month has been the design conference at the Bloodhound Technical Centre in Bristol.
  • He gave them a bloodhound nod which flapped his eyes and his cheeks, and edged back into the rhododendrons. CHARMED LIFE
  • I'm sucked in to politics right now like a hungry tick on a bloodhound which means I've heard Joe Lieberman say the word titular one too many times today. Random Pre-Debate Political Observation of the Day
  • His pursuers tracked him down with a bloodhound but the fugitive managed to kill the hound with an arrow and make good his escape.
  • Melena, with senses as keen as a bloodhound's, tracked him down easily and barred his escape.
  • Remember Wilson's motheaten old bloodhound, the good Colonel -- sorry, Lord -- Wigg? A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • His bloodhounds twain he called amain, and straightway gave her chase; Rookwood
  • I was born with the olfactory powers of a bloodhound, which is a blessing at fine restaurants but not in the city of Sulaimani, or Suli, in Iraqi Kurdistan. City Journal
  • 'Twould be easy enough for the steam-swiler _Royal Bloodhound_ t 'jerk that yelpin' tramp, had she lost her propeller -- as well she might, poor helpless lady o 'fashion! in that slob-ice -- 'twould be easy enough t' rip her through a league o 'the floe t' open water, with a charge or two o 'good black powder t' help. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
  • The English pursued with a border sleuth-bratch, or bloodhound. Anecdotes of Dogs
  • In a post-match press conference, the Norwich manager used a phrase so wildly outside the lexicon of professional football that when I heard it I could only conclude the Premier League pressure was beginning to tell, and that – if measures were not taken – the Scot would soon be rampaging butt-naked across East Anglia until tree'd by pursuing bloodhounds and brought down by a police marksman with a tranquilliser dart. Paul Lambert needs lessons in the lexicon of the football club | Harry Pearson
  • And in a room that was quiet and sunny, working with a little complacent pucker of the lips occasionally, or raising his eyebrows and adjusting his spectacles in a pause of doubt, he looked anything but sinister, anything but the traditional "bloodhound" on the train in a man-hunt. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Like the bloodhounds they are, they must have sniffed the overpowering scent of money mixed with a human rights issue, and went in for the kill.
  • The incessant barking of the bloodhounds grated on Bryony's nerves, and Drake's movements jarred her concentration.
  • I think there is a little bit of overemphasis, if I can say this, on the bloodhound issue.
  • Van der Walt, who described himself as a "bloodhound," was in the witness box for 16 days. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The bloodhound was an amiable fellow, not half as bright as Bingle, but nevertheless excellent at his work. Eighteen
  • Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. Redgauntlet
  • That one's involved in presenting antigens to helper T cells, a process very close to presenting a pack of bloodhounds with someone's dirty sock.
  • You asked about whether bloodhounds were pack hounds.
  • Even when I have forgotten to leave a note with directions, he has sniffed us out like bloodhounds in the bat cave.
  • That first assignment of "tailing" kept him thirty-six hours without sleep, but he stuck to his trail, stuck to it with the blind pertinacity of a bloodhound, and at the end transcended mere animalism by buying a tip from a friendly bartender. Never-Fail Blake
  • As the author shows, the entire Hatfill case was built on inferences drawn from suspicious behavior: The scientist had shown signs of stress on a polygraph exam when applying for a security clearance; he had taken the antibiotic Cipro shortly before the killer anthrax was mailed; he had written a novel about a biowarfare attack; and he had drawn the attention of a bloodhound trained to react to traces of anthrax. When Death Came Hand-Delivered
  • I now understood how bloodhounds were able to follow criminals by their scent.
  • A couple hundred years ago a pair of these dogs was rescued from a shipwreck off the coast of England and the present breed was perfected by mixing in genes from several other dogs (spaniels, setters, and even bloodhound). How To Turn Your Pup Into a Boat Dog
  • And so a group of vicious cats "catnap" his faithful bloodhound, and begin to reverse engineer the formula; an evil plot to disrupt the balance away from "man's best friend. DVD Verdict
  • He could sense their fright like a bloodhound could sniff out a fox.

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