sleuthhound

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President Conant was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University with the citation: "a sleuthhound in pursuit of atoms, a champion of free inquiry and free speech."

From Time Magazine Archive

In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

This explains why the dog has sometimes been called a sleuthhound; that is, a dog set upon a sleuth, or trail.

From Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

But the sleuthhound instinct of the Johnstone held good.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Its speciality—or, if you like, its oddity—was this merciless mercy; the unrelenting sleuthhound who seeks to save and not slay.

From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)