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

Ralph said doggedly, though a Scot, correct for once in his grammar; and he pursued a recalcitrant particle through the dictionary like a sleuthhound.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The man on the other side of the desk, man hunter extraordinary, old servant of Government and State, sleuthhound without a peer, threw up his hands in a gesture of odd hopelessness.

From The Bat by Hopwood, Avery

"You must have your own way, Mr. Fenton," said Crackenfudge, smiling, or assuming a smile, and still steady as a sleuthhound to his purpose.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William