You see, I think I’d better wait here, after all,” said thefoxhound puppy apologetically.
The foxhound puppy got up and came across the road sideways to him.
Nevertheless, in general appearance the Harrier and the Foxhound are very much alike, the one obvious distinction being that of size.
With so much prominence given to the Foxhound in the comparatively short period of forty or fifty years, it is no wonder that individual hounds became very celebrated in almost every part of the country.
By such evidence the Foxhound had outstripped the Harrier in size by nearly five inches, as the latter does not appear to have been more than eighteen inches, and the early Foxhound would have been twenty-three inches.
This shows well how seriously Foxhound breeding was gone into before the middle of the eighteenth century.
The Foxhound Kennel Stud Book abounds in the strongest proofs that hereditary merit in their work has been transmitted from these wonderful hounds, and they really make the history of the Foxhound.
To such perfection, indeed, had the Foxhound attained, that long before the close of the eighteenth century sportsmen were clamouring as to what a Foxhound could do.
The rush of the Foxhound had been absorbed by the additional force of the Pointer character.
From the bulldog the foxhoundobtains his great tenacity of purpose, his deep-seated convictions, his quick perceptions, his love of home and his clinging nature.
The foxhound is about two feet in height, and 120 of them would be considered an ample number for a quiet little fox hunt.
From the chump the foxhoundgets his high intellectuality and that mental power which enables him to distinguish almost at a glance the salient points of difference between a two-year-old steer and a two-dollar bill.
The foxhound obtains from his ancestors on the bloodhound side of the house his keen scent, which enables him while in full cry 'cross country to pause and hunt for chipmunks.
The foxhound is a cross of the bloodhound, the grayhound, the bulldog and the chump.
Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne--he pronounced it Bugine--which my informant used to borrow.
The foxhound and the spaniel and the bulldog always wagged their tails when Ruth came in, and then sat down on their haunches and stared at the proceedings.
But the make and shape which will enable them to stay through a long day's hunting, and a certain amount of drive which adds greatly to the sport, come from an infusion of foxhound blood.
An ox paunch is of course dressed and sold as tripe, all sorts of pork scraps are made up into brawn, mutton ditto into "faggots," so that there is very little left for the foxhound puppies.
We had somefoxhound puppies at walk, but I never allowed her to get near them, and our own dogs got so artful that they always managed to evade her kicks.
It appears that Mr. Blank was a farmer whose land adjoined the said covert, and who had found his foxhound puppy more useful in driving away foxes than his sheepdogs.
It is as impossible to lay down a hard-and-fast rule as to the age at which a girl may be allowed to mount a pony or donkey, as it is to control the spirits and daring of a foxhound puppy.
Most of the foxhound stories I have heard have illustrated the sagacity and cleverness of the fox rather than that of the hound.
He strains back to hound origin, probably, but was developed as a distinct breed in Europe long ago, doubtless with the help of setter and foxhound crosses.
The foxhound is the most popular sporting dog of England, his history being bound up with that of British hunting.
The name harrier was first given somewhat indiscriminately to all English hunting hounds before the foxhound was highly developed.
The so-called American coon-hound is a dog of the foxhound type and of foxhound origin, bred carelessly as to type, but trained to hunt the raccoon and opossum.
The only foxhound anecdote of an amusing nature that I recall is told of one that was owned by a strict Roman Catholic.
Another type of hound admirably suited to otter-hunting is the fell-foxhound of Cumberland and Westmorland.
The cross between foxhound and rough otterhound possesses many of the attributes of the former, including a rough jacket, and thus is admirably fitted for the pursuit of Lutra.
Mr Hill has found the foxhound fail in working up to his otter in a cold drag, but excellent on the line when the game is fairly started.
In our experience, the foxhound is a much better fresh-finder than the pure otterhound, and it is the hounds good at fresh-finding and keeping their otter going that do most towards bringing the quarry to hand.
The English foxhound of standard type is bigger and has more substance than the Welsh hound, but the latter excels in nose and tongue, and can stand any amount of hard work in rough country.
In our experience the hound that can wind his otter across the stream and go straight to him is more often a foxhound than a rough hound.
They swim well, and often draw well when swimming, but the foxhound is quite their equal in this respect.
When it comes to killing an otter, thefoxhound has it all his own way.
A foxhound which comes to the otterhound kennels with the reputation of being a good marker nearly always keeps up his fame in the same way when entered to otter.
In the old days the latter predominated in most packs, and it is only of late years that the foxhound has come to the fore in the pursuit of Lutra.
As far as brains are concerned, the foxhound appears to make more use of his "grey matter" than the rough hound, and shows more initiative and individuality.
The otter was lying rough in a hanging wood overlooking the river, and was found by a little fell-foxhound named Cragsman, belonging to the Ullswater pack.
But even with the words he remembered the morning more than five years ago when he had gone out to the gate with his bird gun on his shoulder and found Will Fletcher and the spotted foxhound puppies awaiting him in the road.
He branched off into a little path which ran like a white thread across the field, grumbling querulously to the black-and-tan foxhound that ambled at his heels.
A foxhound should not have a second claw on the hind leg for this shows a cross in his breeding.
At a gathering of the foremost sportsmen of this country, in 1905, the following standard was fixed as ideal: The American foxhound should be smaller and lighter in muscle and bone, than the English foxhound.
It is impossible to enter upon a description of the foxhound without considerable diffidence.
Mr. Nicol, late of Pall Mall, told me he saw an old foxhound deliberately drown itself, and was ready to make oath of it.
The beagle may be mentioned as a sort of foxhound in miniature, and nothing can well be more perfect than the shape of these small dogs.
A foxhound bitch, in the middle of a chase, was taken in labour, and brought forth a puppy.
As soon as a friend of mine, who always keeps his word, gets back to his farm at Urbana, he is going to send me a foxhound by the next wagon-train to our new home at Vincennes.
When the big fireplace was finished, Doby could sit in the glow of the back log with his foxhound at his knee in the long autumn evenings, and set his knife to the interesting task of making the utensils which the household needed.
A foxhound rose from the moth-eaten leopard-skin by the hearth as they came in.
The hedgehog rolled on the floor, and the foxhound came and sniffed it.
About the middle of the last century a new and improved kind of foxhound was produced; the greyhound was also greatly improved at the end of the last century, while the true bulldog was brought to perfection about the same period.
The modern English foxhound has been bred from the old northern and southern hounds, and is more lightly built, having been bred for speed and endurance.
His twin-engine Foxhound was already in a steep fifty-degree bank.
I had a grand foxhound once, and called him 'Noll,' just because he was grand.
Then he ran up and down, like a foxhound after a lost scent, gabbling away in Gaelic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foxhound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
