The hands of the other lurcher flew to the newcomer's pockets.
A door gave on to the deserted passageway, and on each side of it stood a man--the lurcher type of man that is bred of London streets.
The animal was of the lurcher breed--a type encouraged in the German army for various duties, including field ambulance work, guarding and tracking prisoners and drawing machine-guns.
His right hand, with its protection of the undressed leather gripped the lurcher round the muzzle, his fingers and thumb meeting inside the brute's wide-open jaws.
His fist, taking the lurcher fairly on the point of the nose, sent the animal reeling.
The crofter who owned the lurcher dog lived a couple of miles off, so it was time for us to be on foot.
John Fullarton, over the hill, has a lurcher dog which is as good as a bloodhound.
In fact; virtually all the ground from this point south to the Lurcher Shoal furnishes good fishing for these species.
At other times, however, when a lurcher had snapped up, or attacked the game the pack was hunting, the dogs on coming up have torn him to pieces, as if he had been a wild beast.
Hamilton Smyth says, "The lurcher occasionally makes great havoc among sheep and deer, and acquires the wild scent of game.
The following curious relation, in which a lurcher signalised himself characteristically but fatally, we had from a sporting clergyman of one of the midland counties.
Lance and Roughit would sit down by the fence beside a gate; the lurcher lay quietly down beside the gate-post, while the terrier slipped through the gap in the hedge and sneaked quietly round to the top of the field.
The Squire's pheasants suffered no longer, and Tommy's big lurcher displayed a tendency towards virtue which earned him the admiration of all the gamekeepers on the estate.
We are Witnesses, And if thou be'st not hang'd-- Enter Lurcher and Boy.
Nevertheless he often thought of him, wondering what had befallen him: whether he had met his death from thelurcher or been expelled from the earth by the badgers and betaken himself elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the lurcher shows on the boundary wall, on which she stands and surveys the face of the hill.
He was now to learn that a dog will persist though success seems hopeless, for soon he saw the lurcher coming on at a pace that filled him with consternation.
Soon he saw the lurcher coming, and watched her anxiously as she stood on the brow of the rising ground scanning the moor.
Then the lurcher withdraws, leaving the fox to himself.
He could see no hope; death stared him in the face in both directions; yet the instant he saw the lurcher coming he decided to entrust himself to the pool.
Just as he reached the ditch the lurcher espied him, and with a single whine started in pursuit.
Carefully and not without difficulty the lurcher followed the scent to the last of the stones, naturally thought that the hare had gone on, and dropped to the oat stubble, but finding no trace of scent, recognised her mistake.
At last the lurcher recognises that to kill the fox is a task beyond her powers.
And something ran across the path in the shape of a white cat, and the lurcher went after him, and Barrett went home and to bed and left the door open for the lurcher to come in.
The proprietor of a Lurcher has always been regarded as one who will, when the opportunity offers, take his dog "up the back stairs," and gamekeepers generally look upon the owner of a Lurcher as one worthy of a little extra vigilance.
Now, it would have been a very bad thing for Pauline, as it had very nearly been a bad thing for Penelope some weeks ago, had Lurcher been out.
The lurcher never barked at them, but seemed to understand their mission.
She is a cross between lurcher and greyhound; her cunning head resembles that of a terrier, and her long, slim limbs are hard as steel.
The lurcher is a dog seldom found in the possession of the honourable sportsman.
The extermination of the rabbit will be contemporaneous with that of the lurcher and poacher--two institutions of village life which date back to the time of the New Forest.
A well-trained lurcher is almost infallible in detecting a foe, and upon meeting one he runs back to his master under cover of the far side of a fence.
As I stood waiting, a black lurcher slunk along under the sodden hedge, and seeing the trap, immediately stopped and turned in its tracks.
Then only a rough lurcher dog--a dangerous animal, too--is guardian of the place.
The coracle is seen standing upright in the shed; the lurcher not anywhere outside--for the animal is within, lying upon the hearth in front of a cheerful fire.
On the other hand, poor Lurcher bestowed his affections wherever he would and his brood became populous.
Once upon a time there were two dogs, one named Lurcher and the other Cæsar.
Young Farmer Rhodes stood watching the process mounted on his beautiful mare; James Brand, with the lurcher in a leash, had also stopped for a moment.
He had heavy gaiters, a gun was slung across his shoulders, and a lurcher was leaping at his heels.
Frank had brought the lurcheraway from the keeper's lodge; it had made friends with the foxy terrier, and the two dogs would follow him about, or lie comfortably on the rug while he sat at work upon his papers.
Other dogs trust to speed; but the lurcher steals on his prey without a sound.
For rabbiting, the lurcher was and is the dog of all others.
He had a lurcher with him, and I was afraid the dog would scent me in the hedge.
If half the stories told of the docility and intelligence of the lurcher are true, the poacher needs no other help than one of these dogs for ground game.
There's Rundle with that horrible lurcherdog of his," said Johnny, and spoke more to make conversation than anything else.
On the bank beside the road a man sat, and he was nursing an ugly yellow lurcherdog in his arms.
The lurcher dogs soon shot their bolt, And the fox raced on by the Hazel Holt, Down the dead grass tilt to the sandstone gash Of the Pantry Brook at Tineton Ash.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lurcher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
