These sucking devils alike when at their meal, or when they went here and there to do her will or about their own business, had the shapes of pole-cat or cat or greyhound or of some moth or bird.
You can readily imagine that neither it nor the greyhound could be properly broken unless the instructor possessed much judgment and perseverance.
I take no force, said the knight, whether I live or I die; but so for dread of death he swore to go unto King Arthur, and he made him to bear one greyhound before him on his horse, and another behind him.
Then Sir Tristram rode in amongst them, and there he smote down Sir Kay from his horse; and there he fared among those knights like a greyhound among conies.
By Gott, a statue of Musidora; a colossal bust of Ariadne; and a group of greyhound and puppies.
One pretty girl, amid a gale of chaff, staked a greyhound puppy.
Each piece, large and small, was marked with the greyhound rampant and the motto.
Benjamin Franklin is said to have had a pet hare which lived on the most friendly terms with a greyhoundand cat, and would share the hearth-rug with them in the winter.
But the Wolfhound's fighting blood was boiling in him now, and Finn swept down upon the fox, exactly as a greyhound sweeps upon a hare.
Opposite the Greyhoundwas another new venture, Chettle's, in which a pantomimic entertainment called Frolicsome Lasses was presented, with singing and dancing between the acts, and a display of fireworks at the end.
Yates and Shuter re-appeared at the Greyhound next year, when they presented Woman turned Bully, with singing and dancing between the acts, and a representation of the storming of Louisbourg.
Wombwell only cleared his expenses, though he had at that time acquired Morgan's menagerie, which stood at the corner of the Greyhound Yard, and by that means secured the pennies as well as the sixpences.
His successors were announced next Bartholomew Fair as "the Widow Flint and Gyngell, at Flockton's original Theatre, up the Greyhound Yard.
There must have been at least sixty people present, among whom Peter Chalfont looked like a greyhound and Lola like an advertisement of somebody's soap.
Some there were lounging in their carriages, gliding through parks, a greyhound bounding along in front of the equipage driven at a trot by two midget postilions in white breeches.
The greyhound is a gentleman, respectful and self-respecting, and it shows that by the very carriage of its tail.
The porpoise has discarded one pair, turned the other into decent fins, and recovered a grace and power of motion in water which are not equalled by the greyhound on land.
Footnote 35: The Greyhound was a much frequented tavern in Roxbury, with the figure of a greyhound upon its sign.
If once a greyhound can be fairly entered to the sport and acquires confidence, then its wonderful agility, its sinewy strength and speed, and the terrible snap with which its jaws come together, render it a most formidable assailant.
A big ninety-pound greyhound or Scotch deer-hound is a very formidable fighting dog; I saw one whip a big mastiff in short order, his wonderful agility being of more account than his adversary's superior weight.
He came forward to receive Vivian with a Newfoundland dog on one side and a large black greyhound on the other; and the two animals, after having elaborately examined the stranger, divided between them the luxuries of the rug.
Would that I had it on the desert, with my greyhound beside, and the antelope before me!
A greyhound will start out in the morning with three lame legs, but as soon as he sees a hare start he must go.
We say apparently at full speed, because experience has taught that De Wet can run as fast as a greyhound when he likes; but he never exerts himself to go faster than is necessary to keep just in front of whatever dog is after him.
The greyhound snaps at his opponent and then runs for his life, but the fighting dog stands to it till death.
The query appended to much less is justified, since measurement was necessary to prove that thegreyhound and bulldog puppies had not nearly acquired "their full amount of proportional difference.
The position of the following is uncertain, "greyhound and racehorse have an analogy to each other.
Look at your paws,' as a blue greyhound and rough black terrier came springing joyously upon her, brushing away the silver dew from the shaven lawn.
Charles was to bring the pony for me; I must go,' cried Lucy, with an eye like that of a greyhound in the leash.
Thither therefore I went, though it was seven miles from me; and that I might be rather thought to go out a-coursing than to a meeting, I let my greyhound run by my horse's side.
