With a collie raging at his throat, Hade would have had plenty of trouble in getting away, or even in using his gun.
After which, he chirped again to the gladly following collie and made off down the beach, toward a loop of mangrove swamp that swelled out into the water a quarter-mile farther on.
As they neared the loop of the swamp, the collie looked back, and growled softly, under his breath.
The collie had crouched there, evidently, with some idea of guarding Brice from further harm.
The collie (fastened by a cord running through his collar from one side of the tonneau to the other) lay fidgetingly on the rear seat.
You'll have less chance against me than that poor collie had against you.
She drew the reluctant collie into the house, and closed the door.
Brice lowered his voice and said to the sulking Roke: "That collie belongs to Mr. Standish.
Mine," returned the barefoot man, renewing his effort to drag the collie toward the boat.
The collie continued to gyrate, thunderously around the tree.
As Brice did not stop, nor even look back, the collie waxed doubtful.
Even as he spoke, he had thrust the snarling collie away, and was at the beach-comber.
Brice was sore tempted to reach out his hand and give the collie a reassuring pat and to thank him for the loyal guard he had been keeping.
The distemper finally passed off in a trailing effect of St. Vitus' dance, which, again, our afflicted collie could not understand.
And she went on to explain that Njal, the biggest of the nine, was quite too big for a collie of such distinguished pedigree.
But the delicate little collie that shot forth was herself in such terror that even the waiting dish of warm milk and bread, into which she splashed at once, could not allay her panic.
This collie is full of it and will infect him at the first touch.
Such a famished, unkempt, exhausted collie as stood wagging there!
He was about the college grounds and buildings so much that we feared he might become a nuisance, as well as depart from the few principles ofcollie conduct we had labored to instill.
The colliewas handsome, beautifully groomed, and rather snappish.
When these individual examinations were ended, the collie and the Dandie were allowed to leave the ring.
The collie was pulling her white frock with his teeth.
Our business, he says, hath so many avenues that it has become positively necessary that some of them should be guarded by men of honour, dignity, and irreproachable conduct.
Presently a handsome collie ran up to them, dropped a stone before Frances and stood looking at her, his head cocked on one side, all but speaking.
For a good mile down the beach the collie accompanied them, till both were tired of play.
To their surprise they were presently greeted again by the collie who tore up to hail them rapturously.
Whenever they went out, the girls kept a close watch for the "collie lady" and the "beach dog.
The collie flew for the pebble as though for the first time of the afternoon.
She threw the stone down the beach and the collie shot after it at full speed, his beautiful tawny coat shining in the sunlight.
The collie raced for it and after a sniff, returned without it.
We've learned the collie lady's name and met the boy she told us of, and heard about her Italian prince.
The collie bounded to his feet, his hair bristling along his spine, and rushed at the door with a low growl.
A grand collie dog, lying near the stove in the middle of the room, got up, came and sniffed at him, and went back and lay down again.
The collie went under the hedges, diving instinctively for the holes which the hares had made as they went down to the water for their evening drink.
But then, in the fading light, I perceived that it was no thief, but a huge yellow collie dog, such as they have for minding sheep.
He pointed towards Bob as he spoke, and the intelligent collie looked straight in the direction indicated.
Collie came close and licked his face and whined, then looked about him and growled disapprovingly at the weird thing that surrounded them.
It made him cry out so loud that Collie turned quickly to him with a whine of grieved sympathy.
He clutched Collie and held him down with stern threats.
And there was Collie bounding down the lane, uttering yelping barks and twisting himself almost out of joint in his efforts to wag his tale hard enough to express his welcome.
There was no need to announce the dog's presence, forCollie was barking madly and leaping so his little master could hardly hold him.
And the poor sounds he managed to make seemed to strike Collie as the most grievous thing of all this disastrous voyage, for he put back his head and howled dismally.
And Collie licked his face again, and whined his appreciation of the compliment.
The Lad leaped down and ran to open the gate; Collie knocked him over in his ecstasy, and his father smiled indulgently as the two rolled over and over on the grass.
He went tearing down the hill, Collie leaping at his side.
He scrambled to his knees and tried to get Collie to join him by bowing his head.
He fairly tumbled out of the canoe into them, and there sobbed out all his terror and exhaustion, while Collie leaped and barked and tried his best to upset the boat.
Collie stood up again and barked defiance at a heron that sailed away overhead, but his little master sharply bade him lie down.
But Collie seemed of an altogether irreverent nature, and only licked his little master's face all the more.
So he slid to his knees and ordered Collie to the bottom of the canoe in front of him.
She and the collie dog always came gleefully down the road to meet him on his return from the distant city, and you may be perfectly sure he always brought something nice in his pocket for the pair of them.
Then Ralph got his hat, and, accompanied by the honestcollie and his favourite Jeannie, went off down the road to meet McBain and bid him welcome to his Highland home.
Gregory stopped and the collie stopped, and the two looked at each other carefully.
He advanced another step; and then, to his horror, the collie began to advance too, lifting his feet high and dangerously.
No one liked dogs better than he, if this ass of a collie only knew it.
With that lightning side-snap which he had inherited from his collie ancestors, the dog managed to slash both his opponents severely in the space of half a second.
Although he had been all day acting a dog in charge of sheep, and treating the collie as his natural companion, there was, both in his countenance and its expression, a remarkable absence of the animal.
Collie led two of the party up the face of the cliff to the right of the next gully on the west, which is marked by a pitch of about fifty feet low down.
While clearing snow from the more remote portions of the Collie traverse from the window, in search of the third step, the difficulty of balancing proved too great, and he fell into the gully below.
Collie contributed a vivid account of the first ascent to the Scottish Mountaineering Journal, a publication which should be better known to climbers.
At the door the collie joined them, capering uneasily in the snow.
As we came up we were greeted by a fine collie dog, who seemed to be suffering from the conflicting emotions of his natural good humor and a sense that we had no business on Eighteen.
The delighted Laird made sure that his favourite collie had found him once more.
And pushing the collie from him, he sat up in bed and looked anxiously but vainly round the chamber for the Man of Peace.
Imagine a collie paid by the day, and, when his work was over, receiving twopence and going off to buy his supper.
One night, for what reason I now forget, I had tied up a young collie dog in the little cowshed where she was accustomed to be milked.
He told me that he had had two collie dogs at the same time, one old and the other young.
Redpad cleared the fence at a bound, and went away over a turnip-field with the collie not half a dozen yards behind.
He was a big grey sheep-dog with a wall eye; and although he counted a collie among his immediate ancestors, the rest of his pedigree was buried in oblivion.
Almost as she spoke Gaunt re-entered, and Grim the collie slunk in at his heels.
This was your house, long before he was born or thought of," she said, petting the collie till her tail thumped the ground with ecstasy; her tongue hung out and she slobbered with utter content.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
