She went to the baker's To buy him some bread, But when she came back The poor dog was dead.
The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The littledog laugh'd To see the sport, While the dish ran after the spoon.
Illustration: Decoration] OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone; But when she came there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
She went to the joiner's To buy him a coffin, But when she came back The poor dog was laughing.
A cat lay asleep on a chair, a dog under the table.
We could hear the rain battering at the roof, the walls, and the windows, flowing in a perfect deluge into the farmyard; and my dog was howling in the shed where the other dogs are howling to-night.
Do you suppose I am going to bring my ropes, my windlass, and set it up, and go down there with my boy and let myself be bitten, perhaps, by your cursed dog for the pleasure of giving it back to you?
Lefevre discussed this idea of a dogfor some time.
As soon as the dog finished one piece he yelped for the next.
But a littledog (in Normandy they say "quin"), a little puppy who would bark.
Then he changed into a dog and bit the calves of my legs, and no matter how fast I ran he still followed me, and instead of barking, talked and reviled me.
The dog was installed in an old soap box and they gave it some water which it drank.
When one wants to get rid of a dog they make him "Piquer du mas.
Are you not sorry, to-day at least, to hear the boys and the dog besieging him in his burrow or in the old stone wall wherein he has taken sanctuary?
Well, if we do, papa may buy him, or get another dog like him," spoke Flossie.
She and her little brother had thedog between them.
He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet little spaniel with silken ears and curly hair.
It is a very old and widely spread superstition that when a dog howls at night someone not far away is dying or will soon die.
As he drew near the gates, a monstrous dog came out and barked furiously, but Odin rode a little eastward of the shadowy gates to the grave of a wonderful prophetess.
Even so do you and I habitually conceive our two perceptions and the real dog as confluent, tho only provisionally, and for the common-sense stage of thought.
And he whistled to thedog and called Rip, standing by the table.
Cuckoo had taken Jessie onto her lap and now stroked the little dog quickly and softly with a thin, fluttering hand.
He believed implicitly that the trance at that very moment had deepened into death, and that the sleepless instinct of the dog had divined it partially while he slept, and now knew it and was afraid.
Valentine answered, "If it is a dogand a dark room.
My house get a bad name, and like a dog they hang him.
Before he fell asleep he looked at Rip reposing happily at the foot of the bed, and had a moment of shooting wonder that the little dog was so completely comfortable with him.
Transferring the strings held in his right hand to his left, he took the wrigglingdog from Cuckoo, lifted her up and down as if considering her weight, ran his eyes over her points with the quick decision of knowledge.
A pastile was burning drowsily in a corner, and the shrill dog piped seditiously from its station on a black horsehair-covered sofa, over which a woolwork rug was thrown in easy abandon.
A dog has such a rich nature to give to the woman who is poor, so much innocence at hand for the woman who is wicked, such completeness of attachment ready for the woman who is lonely.
Then, turning his eyes on Cuckoo, who was still hugging Jessie, he snapped his fingers at the little dog and called its name.
Long ago the little dog had entered Cuckoo's heart to be cherished there.
The little dog was left with Valentine and the doctor.
Then she would dog the footsteps of this girl, find out where she went, with a view of deducing from it what she did.
The oath I made was to kill him as I would a dog if his should be broken.
That miserable dog was Dan Pepperill, whose heart was so much bigger than his wit.
The project was freely discussed, and in the hilarity of their hearts the two officers let fall certain words, like crumbs from their table, which a miserable dog chanced to pick up.
I tried to get prussic acid," he said, "but I suppose I asked for it badly, and they did not believe some foolish tale about a dog which I wanted to put out of the way.
Then the hovering finger-tips traced the course of the pellet through the eyebrow, and felt, like a dog nosing a hot scent, the course of the scar where another had crossed his forehead.
The shepherd had just sent the collie to fetch them up, and the running dog was like a yellow streak across the green.
What's the use, my boy, in Elias Droom dressing like a dog of a workingman, when he is a gentleman of leisure and affluence?
By trolley car to Chicago Avenue and, then, like a homeless dog scenting his way fearfully, to a corner not far from the break in the wall.
The dog jumped up and began bounding about in his joy at having done his duty.
You see Ilusha says that Zhutchka was a shaggy, grayish, smoky-looking dog like Perezvon.
And if the dogwere found and proved to be alive, one might almost fancy the joy would cure him.
I’m not such an ass as to go hunting about the town for other people’s dogs when I’ve got a dog of my own!
Only Smurov has known for the last fortnight, but I assured him this dog was called Perezvon and he did not guess.
The dog leapt up and bounded about, whining with delight.
She laughed at the dog and began snapping her fingers and calling it, “Perezvon, Perezvon!
Kolya called Perezvon and the dog jumped off the bed.
I knew a lady who complained bitterly that she had been kept awake all night by a dog in the yard.
He looked shyly and happily at every one, with a continual nervous little laugh, and the blissful expression of a dog who has done wrong, been punished, and forgiven.
But his father and the boys could not help seeing that the puppy only served to recall to his little heart the thought of the unhappy dog he had killed.
And how can you imagine a dog could be alive after swallowing a pin?
What struck people most was Mitya’s sudden outburst As soon as the statement of Smerdyakov’s death was made, he cried out aloud from his place: “He was a dog and died like a dog!
Kolya, jumping up, and the dog stood erect on its hind-legs by Ilusha’s bedside.
The luckless dog had to stand without moving, with the meat on his nose, as long as his master chose to keep him, without a movement, perhaps for half an hour.
The Scripture says that "a living dogis better than a dead lion," and I am a living dog.
What an unlucky dog our poor Ray is, to go and get fever when of all times in the world's history he should not have had it.
From a literary point of view, my dear friend, you remind me of nothing so much as a doggoing home.
He had intended so to develop this study of the dog as to make it tell the tale of mammalian morphology; but this purpose, too, remained unaccomplished.
The dog had been selected as one of the types of mammalian structure upon which laboratory work was to be done.
But what the fact may mean and whether it is temporary or permanent--is thy servant a dog that he should worry himself about other things with backbones?
But Susan replied, 'I always told you our old dog was the best dog in the world--but as usual you thought you knew so much better.
You must bring me back a little dog that will go comfortably into a walnut-shell.
Nothing remained to him but the cat and dog whose lives he had once saved.
Hardly had the old King done so than a lovely tiny dog sprang out of the nutshell, and ran about on the King's hand, wagging its tail and barking lustily at all the other little dogs.
The dog laid this to heart and said nothing; but when they approached the shore he could not help asking, 'Have you got the watch?
So they made a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature, which was quite gentle, and followed Celandine about like a dogwhen she took it out every day to graze.
Susan, who heard him first, said to her husband, 'Our dog must have come back, for I hear him barking lustily.
I certainly never believed the old dog was so quick at hearing.
Illustration] And while they were lying there, the fox, the cat and the dog arrived.
This, therefore, is the opinion of the wise that fie on the food of that mean wretch who like a dog or a Rakshasa eateth at another's house.
O, take care that the Soma juice of a sacrifice is not licked up by a dog through the carelessness of the officiating priests!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dog" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
