staghound
IPA: stˈæghaʊnd
noun
- Any of several large dogs once bred to hunt stags.
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Examples of "staghound" in Sentences
- Moreau, with his grey staghound, then Montgomery, and two others.
- Then suddenly I heard a staghound bay, and at that realised a new danger.
- When my eyes met his, he looked down at the staghound that sat between his knees.
- He was holding the leaping staghound back, and close behind him came Montgomery revolver in hand.
- Two red-haired, tartan-clad little boys stared solemnly out of the frame, seated with an enormous staghound.
- She dressed in haste, called her staghound, and set out the nearest way, that is by the town gate, for the harbour.
- Then I followed and stood up, almost in the exact spot where I had been when I had heard Moreau and his staghound pursuing me.
- Here is another, by Jim Bones, of Betsy with me and Riley the staghound sorry for quality-- it is from a 1985 newspaper article:
- In his right hand he held a short javelin, with a broad, bright steel head, of a span in length, and in his left he led by a leash of twisted silk and gold a large and noble staghound.
- At length, and upon a sudden, the gallant staghound bayed furiously, and seemed about to dash forward where the shadow lay the darkest, yet waited, as if in the slips, till he should know the pleasure of his master.
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