"Bloodhound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... frost and snow to do with the quarrel? Yet they made themselves sycophantic servants of the King of Spain; and they dogged his deserters up to the summit of the Cordilleras, more surely than any Spanish bloodhound, or ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... races, we are soon involved in doubt, from not knowing whether they are descended from one or several parent species. This point, if it could be cleared up, would be interesting; if, for instance, it could be shown that the greyhound, bloodhound, terrier, spaniel and bull-dog, which we all know propagate their kind truly, were the offspring of any single species, then such facts would have great weight in making us doubt about the immutability of the many closely ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... own special badge. "I want to trail a girl," he exclaimed hurriedly. "Can I find a bloodhound about here?" ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... aside. But Artaban did not stir. His face was as calm as though he were watching the stars, and in his eyes there burned that steady radiance before which even the half-tamed hunting leopard shrinks, and the fierce bloodhound pauses in his leap. He held the soldier silently for an instant, and then said in a ...
— The Story of the Other Wise Man • Henry Van Dyke
... later, the four FBI agents came back, leading a man. This one was tall and thin, with the expression of a gloomy, degenerate and slightly nauseated bloodhound. He was led to the chair and he sat down in it as if he expected the worst to start happening ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett
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