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Sentence Examples And the Internet is fast becoming the alternative route for some image hungry news hounds. Before the runner sets off, he is put in an enclosed space with the hounds that then track his scent. What struck me was the genuine enjoyment of the day, the health of the hounds and the lack of cruelty involved. Billy thinks that maybe on moonlit nights, Old Dan will be able to hear the baying of hunting hounds. Over the last few years smooth hounds have increased so heavily off Rhyl that I can now specifically target this species. The mens' horns sounded in triumph, and the master of hounds set his dogs baying. He watched the gathering of dark-suited officials, of news hounds, of curious citizens. Quickly the pack of hounds caught a scent, and hurried to the chase, baying so loudly that the rocks and cliffs rang. Firuza Salukis are exceptional show and sporting hounds and wonderful companions. The young virile fox is faster and will outrun the hounds, while the old fox past its prime will fall. Another loophole would permit hounds to drive hares into the talons of birds of prey. Since no horse could be found to bear her weight she used to career about after hounds in Windsor Great Park in a small chariot. Hunting with hounds demands great skill and the key to keeping your clientele as a hunt is to provide good sport. We can comment on the malignant horde of media hounds claiming to speak for Michael on this and many other issues. They do and the TV news hounds pile on to the front lawn of the dead man's family to get the reaction. It was just 20 minutes into the hunt when the hounds got their first scent. The news hounds must have arrived at the crash site in force, because in the background of every shot was the downed craft. In truth, foxes are not nearly as great a menace to livestock as the hunt clubs who hunt foxes with hounds. These smooth hounds can regularly reach double figures and provide fantastic sport to light balanced tackle. A fox was caught on Birk Fell, near Tilberthwaite, and a second got away after the pack met a group of walkers and the hounds lost the scent. Show More Sentences They think that this provides an avenue to destroy her, and they are like hounds on the scent. Starry smooth hounds are common throughout the entire Mediterranean over continental shelf, including Adriatic and Sea of Marmara. They have been bred to be vicious and as proof I can look no further than a late relative of mine who was a master of the hounds. I can't see any master of hounds wanting to keep a pack of animals when they are serving no purpose. Towns urged residents to purchase hounds and mastiffs and train them to hunt wolves. The workers, living in tied cottages, often had their gardens invaded by hounds. This relates to the practice of blooding young hounds on fox cubs to whet their appetite for hunting. The campaign to eliminate unregistered hounds met with strong opposition from owners, who tried to hide their pets. After the meet hounds returned to their kennels but hunt supporters stayed for a drink at the village pub. Up at dawn he had selected the hounds and prepared the truck to take them to the meet. Is it any wonder I am infuriated by smug, self-righteous politicians who know nothing about country life yet want to abolish hunting with hounds? This mute of hounds, dashing all over the pace, split the morning air with enough hideous din to frighten any fox out of the commune. Other hunts may claim that hounds are chasing rabbits or rats, both of which are legal quarry. A man with a walkie-talkie approached us, then two errant hounds frantic and uninterested in sandwiches. The final cluster includes scent hounds, terriers, spaniels, and retrievers. The kill is no better, as a fox will be torn to shreds by the hounds, thus completing a miserable and undignified exit for the animal. The hounds are blowing hard and dripping with sweat, but they are utterly delighted with themselves. Now of course, an animal rights person probably believes that the horse and the hounds suffer unacceptably, along with their quarry. Hunting without hounds does make this blood sport less cruel, but even still, it is inhumane. The stag sped six miles on end without halt or hindrance, and the hounds ran him without a check. Show More Sentences It is always great impertinence in a huntsman to pretend to make a cast himself, before the hounds have made theirs. Casting the hounds into the cover we stood on the edge of a steep gorge and listened for a sound of the hounds working. Horses and men were standing all close together, while the hounds were casting for a scent. This gave the Field a chance to catch up while the hounds cast back and picked up the line without help from the Master. He tried the stables for 133 horses, the kennels for 144 hounds, the attics for 144 abigails or footmen. He said that people were not safe because of the amount of hounds wandering the streets of the town. Numerous small packs of hounds were kept by people in all walks of life, as they rambled through the countryside pursuing their quarry. In Drag Hunting, a pack of hounds follows a scent laid by a human rather than pursuing a live quarry. Because of this, hares use their superior speed to try and escape but the superior stamina of the hounds wears the hare down to exhaustion. He estimates no more than 25,000 foxes are caught by organised packs of hounds in a year. The colourful sight of the hunt with its hounds and huntsmen cut quite a dash as it passed through the village of Grangecon. The idea of grown men and women on horseback with packs of hounds, charging after one tiny animal is completely unacceptable. Otter hunting was the oldest organized sport in Great Britain in which packs of scent hounds were used for hunting. Fox hunting is a country sport and packs of hounds are kept especially for hunting. Only about 6 per cent of all the foxes killed are killed by packs of hounds and we do not think in the lowland areas, a ban will have any impact. In Britain the debate has been about hunting foxes with packs of hounds and riders in red coats. Also, as a dog lover, I object to the thousands of hounds that the hunt kill each year. Foxes, stags, and hares can venture out on a Spring morning without fear of the red coats and their packs of hounds. Healthy hares can easily outrun foxes, but can rarely escape relentless packs of hounds chasing them for up to 90 minutes. During the winter months, just in the relatively small county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, several packs of hounds will meet on any one day. Show More Sentences The poisoning of hounds forced half a dozen masters of packs of foxhounds to abandon hunting altogether, to the detriment of the local economy. So once the fox does realise that he is being hunted, hounds are already hot on his heels. There are ways to kill foxes to keep the numbers down and it shouldn't be with the use of packs of ravenous hounds. Now, when I say fox hunting I mean the pack hounds and mounted gentry type of hunt. For International readers, today in the UK hunting foxes with hounds became illegal. Judith Keating whipped in for many years and was very active in the breeding and training of the hounds. His whippers-in rap out commands to straying hounds in their unreproducible, never varying, clipped tones. These hounds have been bred for 250 years to hunt foxes and now today it comes to an end. Many of us farm terrain which is unsuited to hunting with horses and hounds. He and the hounds ravening him are amalgamated in one precipitate upsweep of pigments. Everyone knows hunting is not about paying country-dwellers peanuts to kennel hounds. Records show that the hunt probably dates back to 1634 when hounds were kennelled at Slebech Park. The stables were capable of housing more than eighty horses and the Earl's fox hounds were kenneled behind the stables. In future the pack of 50 hounds kennelled at Crag Top Farm will be chasing rabbit. Unarmed, harmless, she felt like an innocent doe being hunted by horsemen and snarling hounds. Finally, a group of protesters storm the Commons chamber in order to assert their right to hunt foxes with hounds. Deer, hounds, wild boar, foxes and rabbits chase each other around the frieze in a stunning display of intricate carving. The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds. A stream of hounds flow in full cry across the field, the huntsman on foot behind. Already ten times as many foxes are shot each year in Britain than hunted to death with hounds and horses. Show More Sentences Stags can defend themselves with their antlers but the hinds have no defence and are often attacked by the hounds. The unruly hounds had lost faith in themselves and scrambled about aimlessly, yapping at birds, rabbits, stones, shadows. The sight of huntsmen and women riding around in red tunics amid a pack of hounds is often described as picturesque. The hounds, powerfully muscled mixed breeds, loll at the ends of leashes made of rope, leather or strips of colorful fabric. The night raid was made right under the noses of a full pack of hounds and 15 head of poultry were wiped out. The hare would be given a head start and lay a trail with shreds of paper, to be chased by the hounds or harriers. Over hedge and fence they race, hounds in the lead, redcoats and hangers-on following on horseback. The alternative of drag-racing, where hounds chase a sack of aniseed instead of a fox, is encouraged by these activists. But for those people who want to ride to hounds, collectively they may go once and try it, be it a fox hunt or a drag hunt. It's a mongrel canine bred to kill rats and to keep foxes trapped in their lairs until the hounds arrive for the kill. The beagles and hounds would have to be killed and all you animal rights people out there would never be happy. If you don't have an active life, for instance, don't purchase a breed that needs a lot of exercise such as hounds, retrievers and shepherds. Boars, hounds, triskelions, and gem inlays figure in Celtic metalwork from the early Iron Age to the end of distinctly Celtic forms. I don't want to share the same room with her and the hounds, let alone a mortgage. The hounds were called off, regrouped and the oldest hunt in England set off on a new trail. The majority of activists who actually ride to hounds are relatively affluent members of society. As he exited the stage door of a West End theater, the usual assemblage of star seekers and autograph hounds waited outside. She hunts because she enjoys riding to hounds, not because she enjoys watching animals get killed. Hunters will ride to hounds for years without seeing a fox, much less seeing it caught. But we do expect that if you cannot ride to hounds to hunt the fox, then the drag hunt in its present form is an acceptable alternative. Show More Sentences Last week around 400,000 people from rural England and Wales descended on London to protest the government's stand on riding to hounds. At the moment England are strong on hounds but a little short in the fox department. The hounds were black, red, silver-grey and brindle, tall and narrow, with tapered muzzles and dark narrow eyes. Thousands of men and women lead keen-nosed hounds into the forest at the beginning of the hunting season for white truffles. All hoodwinking hounds will truly appreciate the urban myths and theories abounding regarding the origin of April Fool's Day. A loader hands him the gun to bring down the quarry which is then retrieved from the undergrowth by trained hounds. Only round about seven per cent of those who have horses or have access to horses ride to hounds. Some of the young stags early in a hunt may turn and stand at bay for short periods as a sort of posturing, as it were, to the hounds. We rode like sweaty hounds, loping along the trail and waving our happy grins into the evening sun. Among popular indigenous breeds such as the Rampur and the Mudhol hounds, the male pups are fancied, leaving only a few males to breed. After being run to ground by hounds the fox was flushed out of its earth by a terrier and shot. I'm not like some of those big-head celebrity hounds who are too good for people or who get into movies for free. On the flip side, hardcore arcade hounds and video jockeys despised the game for its limited combo system and unbalanced cheap-hit ratio. The Washington Post has recently reported how the president continues to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. A follower of Airedale Beagles since 1956, he would stop by to enjoy a tot of whisky or a noggin of port before setting off behind the hounds. This is not an issue in which, to use the Least of New Labour of metaphors, he can run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. But hunt supporters want to show the battle has only just begun and will mass 1,000 hounds, lurchers, terriers, and gundogs outside. Topics under discussion ranged from hunting hounds on the track, through to the future of the East Coast Main Line and problems at Leeds Station. The Register is no more innocent than the rest of the news hounds in promoting Sun's ambitious but vacuous plan. The reality is that you cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Show More Sentences A wily fox will outrun a pack of hounds, but never a bullet. Perhaps last year's foxhunting ban in England, which outlawed hunting the animals with packs of hounds, may tempt a few foxes back to the countryside. Hundreds of packs of fox hounds, hare hounds, deer hounds and other hunts and clubs are planning to meet on Saturday, the day after the ban comes into force. Other people will find that a host of allied trades from country clothing to leather and tackle products, not to mention the lives of packs of hounds, will disappear. But I have also known a huntsman call off hounds that seemed certain to kill, and raise his hat in tribute to the stag that had given us a run to remember. In addition to salukis, eligible breeds are whippets, greyhounds, Afghan hounds, borzois, Ibizan hounds, pharaoh hounds, Irish wolfhounds, and Scottish deerhounds. She groups the dogs together according to their coats, so the longcoated breeds such as Afghan hounds, bearded collies and Yorkshire terriers are all together. Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles. It was a sad day too for the college's professional huntsman and kennelman as he paraded the hounds, a smaller version of the traditional hunting hounds, for the last time. One of these occurred earlier this year when, at the very front of the field, gaining the crest of a hill, I caught sight of the hounds streaming up the opposite slope. But many hunts say there are enough options within the law to allow foxes, hares and deer to be legally chased by hounds, though guns may be used for the kill. The hounds moved on to Ashby pasture where they found a leash of foxes. We at one time had but a leash of hounds to carry on the scent. He mounted on that grand horse, with a leash of hounds standing by. Areas of disagreement is that the impact of hunting with hounds and beagles, we are not actually quite clear whether they have any significant impact on hare numbers overall. As a matter of etiquette, York and Ainsty South had to give permission for hounds from other hunts to attend, as York Minster lies within its area. Kyle Jones unearths the real expense involved in riding to hounds. There were waiters with trays full of drinks standing behind the gospel choir, like someone might release the hounds. Powder hounds won't be disappointed either as there are excellent off-piste skiing and mogul runs, but it's wise to ask for a guide if you take the uncharted option. Or maybe, they wanted to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Show More Sentences This disease of taking the law into one's hands has its inspiration from the fact that the Government is trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. After 1pm a range of events will take place at the Langton Wold Gallops including a parade of hunting hounds, a celebrity pony Grand National and dressage display. Billy's dogs become known as the best hunting hounds in the Ozarks. Sounds were magnified a thousand fold so that the cats fight sounded like a full out war and the hounds baying at the moon sounded like fog horns on the steam ships. Then the pack of hounds chases the scent while followed by mounted riders. One possible tactic could involve shooting a fox before the hunt sets out and dragging its corpse round the countryside for hounds to follow the scent. As the hounds picked up their scent, the howls became snarls. One key characteristic of red herrings, apart from their colour, was their strong smell, so much so that one use for them on occasion was to train hounds to follow a scent. He uses his detective skills to weed out the glory hounds who are trying to profit from having an in-house ghost. It was not an uncommon thing to blood hounds, and with regard to the question of cruelty, if they argued from elemental principles, all sport was cruel. It was also legal to set hounds on injured animals for humane reasons. A misericord in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, shows four enormous hounds piling into a cauldron, indifferent to the cook just poised to hurl his ladle. When the pack loses the scent, the huntsman will cast the hounds again. The huntsman casts the hounds usually with the wind at his back. The mongrel hounds rushed up a slope, into a stand of scrub. He ordered them to stay the proceedings for the recovery of a horse with a saddle and bridle, a hat, a cloak, a ring, a cup, and a mute of hounds. Wellington's modest mute of hounds accompanied their owner on his journey. Like many others, he was unfortunate enough to lose a limb in a shooting accident but is bravely continuing with his chosen career of caring for his beloved hunting hounds. Police were not welcome in this sort of place, and even undercover ones could be sniffed out by this crowd more efficiently than by a pack of blood hounds. The English hounds were high-legged, strong animals probably originating from the crossing of English mastiffs with Irish greyhounds and wolfhounds. Show More Sentences I'd have a few glasses of bullshot then I'd be out with the hounds. In the article, a local man described how he witnessed a badly injured stag being pursued by a 20 strong pack of hounds and up to a dozen mounted huntsmen. The thrill of the sport lies in the chase and the hounds tracking the fox. The Vale of Lune Hunt has been hunting hares with its pack of harriers for 110 years and many of today's hounds are descended from the hunt's original pack. Retired army padre, Rex Hancock, blessed the hounds before the hunt. He works for two years in his Grandpa's store, picking huckleberries, and selling bait to local fisherman in order to save the fifty dollars needed to buy the hounds. There is no longer a convincing case to hunt foxes with hounds and our democratic institutions are rightly reflecting public opinion on this issue. Now that is not of course the whole story, because if deer were not hunted by hounds they would have to be shot in order to keep the population stable. He believes the inclusion of races for Afghan hounds and whippets, plus the appearance of Desert Orchid helped broaden the appeal. On one CD, I spotted five different noises for Afghan hounds, two of Anglo Nubian goats, and 13 of pig weaners. They further argue that, while hunting with hounds may cause suffering, controlling fox numbers by other means is even more cruel. The journalists gave cry after the Prince, like a pack of hounds when they strike the trail of a fox. The hounds pursue the trail of the fox and the riders follow, by the most direct route possible. This is not practiced in the United States, as once the fox has gone to ground and is accounted for by the hounds, it is left alone. Some hounds fell on the fewte left by the fox, Using their craft to cross and cross again. Fox hunting is usually undertaken with a pack of scent hounds, and, in most cases, these are specially bred foxhounds. The scenario unwinds before the fox hunter's eyes and ears with the sound of the huntsman's hunting horn as hounds give chase. There's nothing to stop a group of hounds and horsemen dressed in their Hunting Pink riding out with their dogs. On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox. Unlike foxes, golden jackals were documented to be ferociously protective of their pack mates, and could seriously injure hounds. Show More Sentences The scent of the gray fox is not as strong as that of the red, therefore more time is needed for the hounds to take the scent. Instead of mounted riders following a pack of hounds, it is envisaged that just two dogs will be used to locate a stag and hold it at bay. Winners, which emerge from categories such as toy dogs, gun dogs, hounds and terriers, often have striking names. He's really called Canid 3942, and has been sent from the far-off dog star of Sirius to check up on the hounds of Earth. She is still unblooded but if the hounds had flushed out a fox then the huntsman can hold them back and let the bird try to get it. The squatters had found that out when he blasted away at their hounds. Simmons, who bought his first trailing dog in 1981, has used beagles, hounds, blue heelers, Brittanys and Labs through the years. Now the higher pitched, almost wolf-like attack dogs, a second wave if you will, started to blend with the baying of' the hounds. Jill from Lancashire loves her Afghan hounds, and admits her husband, David, comes second to the dogs. In the United States, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both kept packs of fox hounds before and after the American Revolutionary War. We've never had any cause to split up,'' said Chris, who splits his time between touring with The Real Thing and breeding champion Afghan hounds. The unseen dragsman had laid a short and clear opening trail, and the hounds hunted it briskly. These hounds are given several different names in local folklore, but they display typical hellhound characteristics. The night of his interment saw a phantom pack of hounds come baying across the moor to howl at his tomb. The Tod's death is not explicitly depicted, although one of the huntsmen is described as holding up his body and tossing it to the hounds. How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds? Norman hunting traditions were brought to Britain when William the Conqueror arrived, along with the Gascon and Talbot hounds. Tolstoy's War and Peace and Chekhov's Peasants both feature scenes in which wolves are hunted with hounds and borzois. In this period, foxes were increasingly hunted above ground with hounds, rather than underground with terriers. It is still legal to drag hunt, where foxes are flushed out of a wood and shot dead, before their scent is left as a trail for the hounds. Show More Sentences Davy urged Murchison to turn his energy to science, after hearing that he wasted his time riding to hounds and shooting. They decided to punish him, and the next time he was hunting, one of the witches turned herself into a hare, and led both Bowerman and his hounds into a mire. The guns on the fortress responded, but the small calibre made them sound as if they were yapping like bandogs while the bombers bayed and gave tongue like hounds in cry. During a foxhunt by Sir Thomas Stanley one afternoon in February 1833 his presence distracted the hounds of Stanley to such an extent the event had to be called off. Fox hunting with hounds is mainly practised in the east of Australia. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men, As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. But setters were voted completely brainless while Afghan hounds and boxers were the second and third dumbest animals in the survey for Dogs Today. In others, he has a pack of black hounds with tongues of fire. Hunting with Agassaei hounds was popular in Celtic Britain, even before the Romans arrived, introducing the Castorian and Fulpine hound breeds which they used to hunt. Litt had been last seen on the bog about 200 yards west of Raven Crag where he had been, with other, resting and watching the hounds in the valley below. After enjoying the stirrup cup served in High Street, the colourful parade of horses, hounds and riders moved out, making way for the annual Roll-the-Barrel competitions. Other species than the red fox may be the quarry for hounds in some areas. Into a deep goyle they plunge, and then up the far side to where a ploughman has halted his team that he may watch the sport. There the hounds come to a check suddenly. Xenophon, who viewed hunting as part of a cultured man's education, advocated the killing of foxes as pests, as they distracted hounds from hares. In the event, the Beaufort staged a drag hunt, where foxes are flushed out of a wood and shot dead before their scent is left as a trail for the hounds. One of the biggest attractions of ADIHEX is the Arabian Saluki beauty contest that will showcase beautiful and skilled hounds vying for the beauty crown. The paparazzi and gossip hounds have declared open season on celebrities. During the British Raj, British sportsmen in India would hunt jackals on horseback with hounds as a substitute for the fox hunting of their native England. Hunt supporters previously claimed that, in the event of a ban, hunts would not be able to convert and that many hounds would have to be put down. Supporters contend that while drag hunts can be fast, this need not be the case if the scent line is broken up so that the hounds have to search an area to pick up the line. Show More Sentences And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her. There are times when a fox that is injured or sick is caught by the pursuing hounds, but hunts say that the occurrence of an actual kill of this is exceptionally rare. It is an adept climber of trees, making it harder to hunt with hounds. Examples from Classical Literature The first question had reference to the Mastership of the Runnymede hounds. In hot, sultry weather the boar may be run down by the hounds and captured. Ask gillard why his hounds are never known to tire, and get from him what hints you can. We would arrive to see the hounds dancing about the burrow yelping excitedly instead of having a goral at bay as we had expected. The hounds did not meet on that day, or he would not have been at gouache's at all. The young Lord, the Haiduk, the master of the hounds, and the fool were entertaining themselves playing ball. When the hounds receive their reward after a hare-hunt he calls it the hallow. When the hare is caught the carcass should be given to the young hounds to tear in pieces. He felt like a fox who had thrown a pack of slavering hounds off the scent. She symbolized Diana the huntress, and was followed by her faithful hounds. Dey found Henry real soon en tell him iffen he don't come on back to de field dat Mr. Harvey gwine to set de hounds on him. This checked the hounds for a moment, but ravager cast forward, and presently they came on faster than ever. When the hounds are on his trail the rabbit saves his legs by outwitting his pursuers. Precision and dispatch followed, like two leashed hounds, in the footsteps of the chief. The hounds were snapping furiously as they tried to leap over the tailgate. The roadrunner, however, serves a better purpose in life than being run down by hounds. He gets his clothes from dear lollypop's London tailor, and wears a mauve or magenta tie when he rides out to see the hounds. Thou'st no delight in following the hounds as an Englishwoman should have,' said the gentleman. Page 436Next to turning out bag-men, lifting of hounds is the most prejudicial. They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox. Show More Sentences When they are bigger they have the hounds after them to hunt them down and make away with them. It does not behove a master of hounds to seek counsel in difficulty from anyone. Start the tup in his own rough region, and we will be bound to say he will give the hounds and their followers a scramble. Guards and patrols could be evaded, or circumvented, but the hounds could not. And behold, these hounds proved to be the children of that molossian who, through the poet's interference, had died unavenged! One of the king's big molossian hounds once strayed into this place, and the natives promptly killed and ate her. Discussing matters that concern ye not, Eavesdropping hounds, unmannered miscreants! With these steeds, so well fitted for hunting, were twelve sleek, fleet hounds. At first it occurred to me that it might be an ambulant dog-kennel, to receive the hounds on their return. But the man proved to be a poor runaway like myself, and the one whom the hounds were after. Leonidas, successor to Pimen in the archiepiscopate of Novgorod, was sewn up in a bear-skin and worried to death by hounds. I leave that to the Broad Church, who want to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Being so much interested in fox hunting, our Farmer proceeded, with his usual painstaking care, to build up a pack of hounds. But now the hounds were too quick, and in a trice they had the cougar surrounded. According to her, it asked no odds from the wild huntsman, or the Gabriel hounds. None but my hounds, and the flying squirrel I had caught and tamed. Suddenly he heard the blast of a horn close by, then the baying of hounds. The baying of the hounds brought old Simpson out to the road. From far away in the forest he heard the baying of the hounds. In a storm on Hallowe'en is heard the belling of his hounds. Show More Sentences He bounded away, but his pet hounds sprang at him and caught him. In France there are several varieties or sub-breeds of brach hounds. A FOX, running before the hounds, came across a Woodcutter felling an oak and begged him to show him a safe hiding-place. I'd send them jabbering Frenchers back into their den again, afore the week was ended, howling like so many fettered hounds or hungry wolves. He waved his cocked hat to them as a huntsman lays on his hounds. He had a reputation in Connacht as a singularly bold rider to hounds. Eager, hungry breath it was, like that of hounds seeking to devour him. Taking to the water threw the hounds off the scent of the track. A HARE hunt went ahead yesterday with borrowed beagles, after its own hounds were kidnapped by animal rights activists. The young hounds go laughing and singing too much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe louder than a fox in his cover. They were taking fifty-four hounds, with six hunt attendants and whippers-in. Then the Khan set his hounds upon us, for he was mad and false-hearted. So, to my great relief and pleasure, they started on after the hounds. His thoughts, like hounds on a trail, raced off after this new scent. He kept a pack of hounds, which were frequently employed in fox hunting. But am I not generalizing from the single case of the fox and hounds? I gave him thrice nine hounds all-white in their silvern chains. Bob, the terrier, was always the most interesting of our hounds. The hounds of the Indians are something like our lurcher breed. I have four harriers which are considered the swiftest in the county, and a pack of hounds which are unequalled for twenty leagues around. Show More Sentences The skirmishers, without orders, against orders, are going forward at a keen run, like hounds unleashed. Not in those very words, but if we leave an earth unstopped, it is the same as though we wished to save Abu Hussein from the hounds. Those outside of the hut threw up two breastworks, into which they retired at a tolerably early hour, and slept like overfed hounds. Dogwatch UK, which helps find homes for hapless hounds, is inviting people to tuck in to a variety of treats tomorrow at a garden party. Enter the two young princes, accompanied by two great Pegu hounds. Among them is Irish Draught horse Ben, five, who was rescued from thugs who planned to feed him to hounds. Now is the moment to urge on the hounds and ply the javelins. The squire, however, sent after his sister the same holloa which attends the departure of a hare, when she is first started before the hounds. Riding with the hounds remains the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable, a barbaric, outdated pursuit that has no place in a civilised country. The hounds tore and sobbed at Abu Hussein's hearthstone, all unnoticed among the legs of the witnesses, and Gihon, also accustomed to laws, purred approval. A Hart hotly pursued by the hounds fled for refuge into an ox-stall, and buried itself in a truss of hay, leaving nothing to be seen but the tips of his horns. These varlets pretend to be bent chiefly on their sun-down meal, but the moment it is dark they will be on our trail, as true as hounds on the scent. These horsemen and hounds are members of the Braes of Derwent Hunt. Biscarrat, better mounted than his companions, arrived first at the opening of the grotto, and comprehended that fox and hounds were one and all engulfed in it. Find more words! 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