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Example sentences for "hound"

Lexicographically close words:
houlding; houlds; houle; hoult; houms; hounde; hounded; houndes; hounding; hounds
  1. Now it happened that that morning Bowser the Hound took it into his head to take a walk in the Green Forest.

  2. Bowser the Hound in his deepest voice, and sprang at the stranger.

  3. Then we can use that, and if Bowser the Hound or Farmer Brown's boy comes along and finds this door they'll think no one ever lives here any more and you'll be safer than if you were right in your own home.

  4. Bowser the Hound was as surprised as Blacky the Crow.

  5. His steed stumbled, his hound howled, his falcon clamored.

  6. Henceforward shalt thou be a Hound (Pes, or Pyos), an unclean beast.

  7. The judge fined the miserable hound five dollars for the assault.

  8. You's de lowdownest hound dat ever--but I done told you dat befo'.

  9. I reckon I do, seein's I helped lodge him in jail, an' how the hound whined for a chance to escape!

  10. If Darius could only get weapons so that we might capture the boat's crew, what joy would be mine to carry the base hound to Commodore Barney as a prisoner!

  11. Scorned by the grinning hound of scorn, (Ah me!

  12. God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy Chase befall; To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy took his way; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.

  13. As they sat down the old hound came cautiously down the steps, wheezing out a husky greeting.

  14. He was a noble buck, and had got a long start; not a single hound had yet appeared, but I heard them coming through the jungle in full cry.

  15. The hound required for elk-hunting is a cross between the fox-hound and blood-hound, of great size and courage, with as powerful a voice as possible.

  16. The principal features of this country being a series of wild marsh, plains, forests, torrents, mountains and precipices, a peculiar hound is required for the sport.

  17. Sometimes a splendid hound in character may be more like a butcher's dog than a hound in appearance, but the pack cannot afford to part with him if he is really good.

  18. When brought to bay he fights to the last, and charges man and hound indiscriminately, a choice hound killed being often the price of victory.

  19. That buck was a noble fellow; he rushed at the dog, and they met like knights in a tournament; but it was murderous work; he received the reckless hound upon his sharp antlers and bored him to the ground.

  20. Every hound was at fault, except two, who were close at his heels, and being very fast they never lost sight of him.

  21. We had just entered the forest, when we met a young hound returning along the path with a wound from a buck's horn in the shoulder.

  22. Soon the noise changed to the howls of a fierce combat, but, on rushing to the gates, they saw in the glare of the lanterns a young boy and the hound lying dead at his feet.

  23. The Hound of Cullan* When he was old enough the boy Setanta went to the court of Conor to be brought up and instructed along with the other sons of princes and chieftains.

  24. I bid thee remember not our comradeship, O Hound of Ulster; it shall not avail thee, it shall not avail thee.

  25. The beast then appears on the face of the mountain, and Dermot slips the hound at him, but the hound flies in terror.

  26. And it came to pass that Conor King of Ulster and Maev Queen of Connacht sent messengers to mac Datho to ask him to sell them the hound for a price, and both the messengers arrived at the dun of mac Datho on the same day.

  27. Mac Datho followed this wise counsel, and bade both Ulster and Connacht to a great feast on the same day, saying to each of them that they could have the hound afterwards.

  28. When I came forth again into the street, it was quite empty, and I breathed again; but alas, I had not turned three corners, when I once more observed the human hound pursuing me.

  29. Like a hound on a scent he ran to the back of the spruce tree and on his knees examined the earth there.

  30. Instantly Cameron ran forward a few swift steps and, like a hound upon a deer, leapt across the fire and fair upon the crouching Indian, crying "Call the Police, Martin!

  31. The fight between the buck and the hound promised to be a prolonged one, though it looked as if the fine beast would have to succumb in the end.

  32. It is not impossible, also, that the sight of a second hunter and the sound of the baying hound near at hand convinced him that he was caught in close quarters and must make a fight for it.

  33. The three listened, but though the hound was absent nothing was heard from him.

  34. Not the least enthusiastic member of the party was Bob Budd's hound Hero, that had all a trained animal's enjoyment of the hunt, and who received so few chances of taking part in the sport that his appetite was at the keenest point.

  35. Can it be that he felt that the lad who had fired the last shot had in some way done him an inestimable service in removing the hound from his path?

  36. Not only that, but the hound would have kept his body out of reach of the hoofs, while, as a matter of course, the antlers would have been powerless against such a determined assailant.

  37. The peculiar cry of the hound at that moment rang out on the autumn air sharp, clear, and distinct.

  38. Within a few seconds after the first baying of the hound fell upon their ears Bob Budd found himself alone.

  39. The first sounds of the hound showed that he was over the mountain crest, and within the following minute it was apparent to all that he was approaching, his baying rapidly growing more distinct.

  40. My aim was all right," replied Jim, "but after the charge left the gun the hound and the buck changed places.

  41. Just at this moment Hollfeld's large hound rushed up the staircase and into the room, where he made two or three playful bounds, and then vanished again at the sound of a shrill whistle from the lawn without.

  42. Is it to learn the habits of the wild animal, or to watch the instinct of the hound that pursues him?

  43. Melanchates, that hound That plucked Actæon to the grounde, Gaue him his mortal wound, .

  44. Jock of Milch, and could hollow to a hound till all the woods rang again.

  45. The wind blew up from Pernambuco; 10 And in the breast of the blast Came the King's black ship like a hound let slip On the trail of the Sally at last.

  46. For a moment the dingo hound seemed daunted by her bravery, and paused a little way off, panting, with its great tongue lolling out of its mouth.

  47. It failed to reach the throat it had aimed at, and in a moment the Kangaroo had seized the hound in a tight embrace.

  48. For now the truth was clear; The gallant hound the wolf had slain To save Llewellyn's heir.

  49. But when he gained the castle door, Aghast the chieftain stood: The hound was smeared with drops of gore; His lips and fangs ran blood.

  50. They laid him silently in the ground, His only mourner the whimpering hound Who stretched himself out on the grave and cried Like an orphan child--and so he died.

  51. The elephant is stronger than we, the hound is swifter, the raven lives much longer.

  52. The sum of it was that a soulless hound Was known to be buried in hallowed ground: From scandal sore the Church to save They must take the dog from his master's grave.

  53. Now the dog was a hound of the Danish breed, Staunch to love and strong at need: He had dragged his master safe to shore When the tide was ebbing at Elsinore.

  54. Muhammadans have granted in popular lore a place in Paradise to Khetmir, the dog of the seven sleepers, who has been suspected of being the same animal as Yudhishtira's hound by some scholars.

  55. The Rampur hound is a similar beast, much cherished by sporting Nawabs.

  56. And with that memory came another--the memory of Roger flinging himself forward to the rescue, forcing back with bare hands the great hound which had attacked her.

  57. Nan was smoothing first one tan head, then another, receiving eager caresses from rough, pink tongues in return, and insensibly she had moved step by step further into the yard to reach this or that hound as it caught her attention.

  58. Instantaneously there flashed through her mind the recollection of something she had once been told--that if one hound turns on you, the whole pack will turn with him--like wolves.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addict; aggravate; animal; annoy; badger; bait; beast; beat; beset; bother; bristle; buff; bug; canine; chase; collector; course; cur; demon; devil; devotee; discompose; disturb; dog; drive; enthusiast; exasperate; exercise; fan; fanatic; fiend; flush; follow; fowl; freak; fret; get; grind; gripe; gun; habitue; harass; haunt; hawk; heckle; heel; hound; hunt; hyena; infatuate; insect; intimidate; lover; molest; mongrel; nag; needle; nettle; nut; oppress; persecute; pester; pick; pig; pique; plague; polecat; pooch; pother; prod; prosecute; provoke; pursue; pursuer; push; quest; reptile; rhapsodist; ride; rile; ruffle; run; scold; search; seek; serpent; shadow; shoot; skunk; snake; sport; stalk; start; swine; tail; tease; torment; track; trail; varmint; vermin; vex; viper; visionary; votary; whelp; worm; worry; zealot