bandog

Example Sentences

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But now I put thee out of door and set the bandog to guard it; thou art locked out though the door be wide open, seest thou?

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence

And while to this lone cave my deep grief I'm venting, The Saxon's keen bandog my footstep is scenting, But true men await me afar in Duhallow, Farewell, cave of slaughter, and Mairgr�ad ni Chealleadh.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Zounds! had I not cleared off I should have been run down myself, with a pack of bandog bailiffs at my heels.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let scholarment and all Malthusiasts go hang.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

He was incessantly on his legs in committee, and became a name for an opposition bandog who gave chancellors of the exchequer no peace.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various