He was alone with his pack of twentyhounds who looked as wicked and savage as himself.
The man, who was dozing, arose abruptly, looked about him with an amazed air, while the entire pack ofhounds manifested the most hostile objection to the entrance of the chevalier, bristling and showing their formidable teeth.
Lions, leopards, boars, deer, and hounds were the principal motives.
Altogether we got scattered, and in the forest it grew almost as dark as pitch; you followed just as you could, and could only guide yourself by your ear when the hounds gave cry, or the horns sounded.
Seraph, as though he were hunting his own hounds at Lyonnesse, who knew every tone of his rich clarion notes as well as they knew every wind of his horn.
The soldiers stood like hounds that see the lash; they knew that he was like enough to carry out his threat; though they were doing no more than they had always tacit, if not open, permission to do.
The yell that hissed in his wake, as the throng saw him escape, by what to their slow Teutonic instincts seemed a devil's miracle, was on his ear like the bay of the slot-hounds to the deer.
Now and then I heard the hounds giving tongue at the distance, and I rode after that to the best of my science; and uncommonly bad was the best.
Hounds found directly; three of the fastest things I ever knew, one after another; you should have seen the 'little ladies' head him just above the Gorse!
Mr. Masefield, who breaks into anapaestic passages when hounds are in full cry, pulls it off all the way.
Flurry was out of the wood blowing shattering blasts upon his horn, and the hounds rushed to him, knowing the "gone away" note that was never blown in vain.
The final description of the rested fox's nocturnal hunt and the hounds going home is admirable fresh painting.
We broke into their sylvan tranquillity with a heated demand whether the hounds had passed that way.
The hounds were too filled with the prospect of sport to pay any attention to Scuffy.
The hounds always set upon him at meal-times, usually chewed him at bed-time, and harried him at all times.
The bear, a full-grown male, met the onset of the hounds with grim confidence.
Scuffy, who had come out of the fight without a scratch, took on new airs in camp, and returned evil for evil by bullying the two wounded hounds who were too surprised by his aggressiveness to make an effective defence.
In truth, Scuffy was the liveliest and most impudent dog in the pack, and when the fight was fully on, managed to worry the angry bear more than the hounds did.
All hands were in the saddle by daybreak, and Scott's hounds were baying and tearing around camp wild with excitement.
As he spoke, the hounds yelped sharply and Scott spurred forward.
For an instant the two hounds lost their heads and the infuriated bear charged Bucks and Bill Dancing.
He is eating the hounds up; doesn't give them a chance to pick a bone even after he's done with it.
It was only Bucks who insured him anything at all to eat, and the enmity of the big, rangy hounds for the lean and hungry tramp dog left him no peace save when they were fighting in dreams.
But when the three hounds arrived there was excitement enough to compensate for it.
The hounds gave tongue vigorously, and Scuffy, who had by this time not only established himself but had impudently taken the lead and was heading the pack, barked loudest and longest.
SIR: I have the honor to inclose you a communication this moment received, on the subject of procuring blood-hounds from the Island of Cuba to aid the army in its operations against the hostiles in Florida.
There had been much said in regard to these blood-hounds before they were actually obtained.
Wise, a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia, addressed a letter to the Secretary of War, inquiring as to facts relating to the employment of blood-hounds in aid of our troops.
Understanding perfectly the nature and education of those animals, it does not appear very extraordinary to us that the Exiles remained for a time in the interior, where neither blood-hounds nor civilized troops were accustomed to penetrate.
Tell him I am sending to Cuba for blood-hounds to trail them, and I intend to hang every one of them who does not come in.
It was that legislative body which first gave official sanction to the policy of obtaining blood-hounds from Cuba to aid our troops in the prosecution of this war.
SIR: It is understood by the Department, although not officially informed of the fact, that the authorities of the Territory have imported a pack of blood-hounds from the Island of Cuba.
This policy of the Exiles rendered useless the whole expenditure of money and honor, made in the purchase of blood-hounds and Spaniards, with a view to their capture.
We cannot close our eyes to the fact, that General Jessup intended the blood-hounds to be used in catching "the negroes belonging to the white people," as he said.
One morning George was out after the hounds with Stavordale, who told me the story, and a lot of fellows who had come over from Newmarket.
Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel.
I was a stout little fellow enough, and before I was twelve I had learned to follow to hounds my grandfather's guests on my pony; and Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Carvel when they shot on the duck points.
I was constant at all the gayeties, gave every miss in town a share of my attention, rode to hounds once a week at Whitehall or the South River Club with a dozen young beauties.
Since the doctor was too much the macaroni to ride to hounds and to shoot ducks, time began to hang exceeding heavy on his hands.
Therefore to return to our worthies: the present race of terriers and hounds would starve, were it not for the enchanted Actaeon, who has kept the whole pack for many successions of hunting seasons.
Presently over hills streamed a picturesque procession--the hounds in the lead, the horses following with riders whose pink blazed against the green of the pines, against the blue of the river, against the fainter blue of the skies above.
I have visions of riding to hounds and sailing the seas some day, to say nothing of putting up a good game of golf.
Tireless, the hounds followed and followed, until at last he knew himself weary, seeking sanctuary.
They were encouraged to drive and allowed to ride to the meets of hounds if there was anything to carry them, and in Cicely's childhood there had been other ponies besides Kitty, left-offs of her elder brothers, which she had used.
Besides, the ground is so thickly covered with sturdy vegetation that the hounds could not derive much help from their noses.
There are enough hounds of death and peril after you to make you hurry.
The American aborigines look forward to a heaven of illimitable hunting-ground, partridge and deer and wild duck more than plentiful, and the hounds never off the scent, and the guns never missing fire.
He reckons to call off the hounds on his own trail, while the feller Harker carries on the good work of squeezing the Swedes.
You know how I fled with Hellbeam's hounds on my heels.
It's the soulless crime of a gang of unscrupulous foreigners, and those hounds of hell have left you to suffer for it just as sure as if they'd seared your poor gentle heart with a red hot iron.
A draught of hounds were being sent down to a friend in Scotland.
Of course it makes us all very anxious at present to know how it is to end, for the Master of the Hounds always is the leading man in our part of the world.
I see that John Fletcher is going to make an ass of himself and spend a thousand a year in keeping up a pack of hounds for other people to ride after.
Finnerty commented, and to his groom added: "Take the hounds away.
Finnerty sprang to his feet as a pair of Rampore hounds reached the drive, galloping toward a tall native at whose heels came a big hunting dog.
Perhaps the most beautiful lines in it are when Actaeon, changed to a stag, first hears his own hounds and flees.
And like the chaesd Roe stand in that amaze Tyll the hounds catche you.
Ma father let me gang to a fox hunt, and man, it was grand to see the hounds and the lang-legged horses lowpin the dykes and burns and hedges!
In winter, after the first snow, we frequently saw three or four Indians hunting deer in company, running like hounds on the fresh, exciting tracks.
But don't you know, Porthos, that after the fox come hounds, and after the hounds men?
The greatest number had followed in the wake of the latter, just as in hunting five or six of the best hounds alone follow the scent of the animal hunted, while the remainder of the pack follow only the scent of the hounds.
The hounds at the same moment rushed into the grotto like an avalanche, and the depths of the cavern were filled with their deafening cries.
If the guards who follow their hounds happen to discover there is an issue to the grotto, there is no more help for us, for on entering they must see both us and our boat.
The houndswere still streaming away, two fields in front of every one; the huntsman and the two officers going gallantly abreast in their wake.
The hounds stop suddenly, and after scattering and spreading themselves into the form of an open fan, look up in my face with an air of mute bewilderment.
There is a line of pollarded willow trees down in that hollow, and the hounds have already left these behind them; they are rising the opposite ground.
I see that dark, wet, ploughed field, with the white hounds slipping noiselessly over its furrowed surface.
At last the hounds checked; we stood alone with them; I felt almost delirious with the excitement.
At first I could not catch a glimpse of the hounds themselves, or even the servants, for the crowd, mostly of foot-people, that surrounded them.
Again the hounds stooped to the scent; they crossed a deep narrow lane, up which I saw the crowd advancing.
Still the houndsfleeted on, and I never took my eye off them, but urged my horse in their wake, taking every turn they did, and swerving from nothing.
The girl's wild after horses and hounds and all such unfeminine pursuits.
And now let me seek a fitting drug--one that is swift, yet not too swift, lest your hounds should see themselves baffled of the prey before all their devilry is done.
Then the Tlascalans were loosed upon us, like fierce hounds upon a defenceless buck, and on this day it is said that there died forty thousand people, for none were spared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
