"Doggish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this harangue, he certainly acted up to the spirit of it, for he pattered cheerfully after his master to the schoolroom, and curled himself up into a compact brown ball at his feet, to doze away the morning in doggish dreams. ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... curious evenness that were somehow rather deadly. The words seemed pregnant with meaning, but before I could weigh them I heard him noisily descending the stairs. It was only then I recalled having noticed that he had not changed to his varnished boots, having still on his feet the doggish and battered pair he most favoured. It was a trick of his to evade me with them. I did for them each day all that human boot-cream could do, but they were things no sensitive gentleman would endure with evening dress. I was glad to reflect that doubtless only Americans ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... this most natural question touches the deepest springs of human conduct. There were two men in Priam Farll. One was the shy man, who had long ago persuaded himself that he actually preferred not to mix with his kind, and had made a virtue of his cowardice. The other was a doggish, devil-may-care fellow who loved dashing adventures and had a perfect passion for free intercourse with the entire human race. No. 2 would often lead No. 1 unsuspectingly forward to a difficult situation from which No. 1, though angry ...
— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett
... in danger, then, of proving to be something quite brutish and doggish, this spirit of truth. I should not wonder, therefore, if we found it ...
— Phaethon • Charles Kingsley
... the compliment with becoming modesty, and began to look as affable as was consistent, as John Bunyan says, "with his doggish nature." ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... downcast, reverent head, Regards his brother's form outspread; Full well Max knows the friend is dead Whose cordial talk, 70 And jokes in doggish language ...
— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold
... a beautiful brown-and-white spaniel, with eyes that were almost human in their soft beseechingness, and Mrs. Broderick often lamented that she could not eulogise his doggish virtues as Mrs. Browning had ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey |
