Outside her kennel, the mastiff old 145 Lay fast asleep, in moonshine cold.
Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can ail the mastiff bitch?
The mastiffold did not awake, Yet she an angry moan did make!
The old mastiff sat by her side, with his heavy head lying on her lap, and his big dim eyes lifted to her face.
Since the deep snows had started, except to go down to the rest house with Father Benjamin whenever it was the latter's turn to go, the mastiff had been idle.
The great mastiff wagged his tail furiously and stared down the wall of snow.
And so, after thousands of years, the Alpine Mastiff found in the Swiss Alps a land very like the Tibet of its forefathers.
The mastiff had worked willingly beside his master while they freighted hay or wood from the lower reaches or carried supplies from the inn at Cantine.
A FREE DAY It had not been easy to coax Caesar inside, even into a stable, but Franz had succeeded both in getting him in and in persuading the big Alpine Mastiff to sleep at his feet.
The bigmastiff settled himself to wait until his master saw fit to rejoin him.
He was by no means sure that Caesar could find Professor Luttman, but he was positive that they stood a far better chance with the big mastiff than they ever would without him.
The mastiff was equally determined that he would not turn the spit, therefore, not even Anton could make him do it.
Carrying only his ropes and alpenstock, he was accompanied by the mastiff until blocked by a wall that the dog could not climb and up which Franz could not rope him.
Then, with the mastiff padding beside him, he started into the meadow, carrying the small hatchet that was a parting gift from his father.
The great mastiff struck off at a thirty-degree angle to the course they had been following.
At other times the large mastiff chained in the courtyard answered with furious bark the insults of the idle loiterers who made a sport of incensing him.
Each farmer kept a huge mastiff dog ranging at large, and ready to make his morning meal on clergy or laity, as best suited his particular taste.
This open breadth of forehead was strongly marked in Sall, a fine oldmastiff that used at this time to walk round the dining-room after breakfast, with her noble head reaching the level of the table.
A soldier passing through a meadow, a large mastiff ran at him, and he stabbed the dog with a bayonet.
A mastiff attacked the beast, which immediately left the horse, and turned upon him; the dog then fled, but was pursued and killed by the lioness about forty yards from the coach.
Tibble, perhaps with a memory of the old fable, "better be the trusty mastiff than the wolf.
Then Leonore turned to the mastiff and told him some things.
And when Leonore, in crossing the porch, encountered the mastiff which Peter had given her, she stopped and kissed him too, very tenderly.
In another play of this kind which represented the Creation, a horse, pigs with rings in their noses, and a mastiff with a brass collar were brought up to Adam to name.
The mastiffscratched still at the panels; the sound outside had ceased.
The mastiff was the only living thing that did not hate her; she was grateful, in a passionate, dumb, unconscious fashion.
A step crushed the dead leaves without and passed away faintly; there was stillness again; the mastiff went to the bolted door, smelt beneath it, and scratched at the panels.
This is the work of the cookee; and, at the logging camp where the mastiff had belonged, the animal had been used instead of a horse, to pull the load of the midday meal out to the men at work.
I once saw her having a brush with a big mastiff that lived a few blocks from us, and giving him a good fright, which just served him right.
She didn't look that way, though, when the mastiff rushed out of the alleyway at her.
And there lies my faithful mastiff at the threshold.
The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and stood on his hinder legs, so as to put his forepaws on the chariot-wheel.
Even a mastiff will pull down those who come near his kennel; and who shall blame him?
Fortunately the giant mastiffaroused such admiration in the emir himself and in all the dervishes that no one lifted a hand against him.
The giant mastiff now began to turn his head to the right and to the left as if he wanted to display well his terrible equipment to the Sudânese and Bedouins and tell them: "Look!
Saying this he whistled drawlingly and in a moment the gigantic mastiff dashed among the camels.
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English breed of mastiffs, nor even with the old British mastiff or bandog.
In the sentence in which this word is used in the chapter on the Mastiff (p.
British mastiff that the two are very different types, we must not therefore conclude that the artist was at fault, but that the French matin, which is what our MS.
Some etymologists have suggested that the wordmastiff was derived from masethieves, as these dogs protected their master's houses and cattle from thieves (Manwood, p.
She touched the horses in the stable, the grooms, the greatmastiff in the court-yard, and the tiny lapdog of the princess that was on the bed beside her.
In the lead was a bigmastiff that looked like a lion to us.
So I yelled out to Sandy who had the shotgun to pepper that big mastiff before he could jump us, and that I'd take care of the next creature.
This dog of ours, thus richly fitted out, A mastiff met, who wish'd the meat, no doubt.
A prowling wolf, whose shaggy skin (So strict the watch of dogs had been) Hid little but his bones, Once met a mastiff dog astray.
The silly shepherd, giving heed, Cast off his dog of mastiff breed, And took three dogs to watch his cattle, Which ate far less, but fled in battle.
When the mastiff came by, they were ready for him.
The mastiff was present, and seemed to listen with attention.
Moreover, as the place beside Casimir on the back seat remained empty, the big mastiffleaped into the carriage, and occupied the place of honour by his master's side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mastiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
