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Foxhound   Listen
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Foxhound  n.  (Zool.) One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.






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"Foxhound" Quotes from Famous Books



... under nature, I will give in detail such cases as I have been able to collect. Lawrence (1/82. 'The Horse in all his Varieties, etc.' 1829 pages 230, 234.), who paid particular attention to the history of the foxhound, writing in 1829, says that between eighty and ninety years before "an entirely new foxhound was raised through the breeder's art," the ears of the old southern hound being reduced, the bone and bulk lightened, the waist increased in length, and the stature somewhat added to. It is believed that ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... airy reply. "The best ones used to be made in Germany and sent to Egypt. By the tune the camels had finished with them, they'd fetch anything from a millionaire to a foxhound." ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... she was 'running along and playing' when she met a playfellow. It was a fat foxhound puppy, very clumsy and very affectionate. They had a romp together, and then the puppy blundered off, and Fina went indoors to wash her hands, because the puppy's idea of a romp had been a roll in the dust, which Fina had ...
— Oswald Bastable and Others • Edith Nesbit

... fixed for the best foxhound: the first was a golden goblet with an inscription on it, the second was a silver hunting-horn, and the third a beautiful bear-skin; and no doubt the victorious foxhound would, personally, have been most grateful for the last. Most of the competing dogs, tied together in couples, were led along ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

... stopped and listened. One of the guards, more kindly disposed than Simmons and the other guard, had, during the hour of lunch one day, told him something about the bloodhound, Sheriff. The dog, he said, was not a full-bred bloodhound, his grandfather was a foxhound. Consequently, he ran a man freely, as a hound runs a fox, barking ...
— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux



Words linked to "Foxhound" :   Walker foxhound, hound, hound dog, English foxhound, Walker hound



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