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Examples from Classical Literature
He urged me towards the outside of the station like a sheep-dog hazing his flock.
For a time the best sheep-dog in the North was pawing at the Gate of Death.
Smart was a sheep-dog that belonged to a Mr. Scott, who lived in Scotland.
This ferocious beast is about the size of the largest kind of sheep-dog.
I suppose he was not a cow-dog, but what they call a sheep-dog.
The wolf does not curry favor with the sheep-dog when it hungers for a lamb.
She was followed by a sheep-dog, small and wiry as a hill-fox.
A sheep-dog was stretched at full length before the slumbering fire.
No man could act as sheep-dog for Royalty and retain skill as a detective.
Hardly had the carriage entered the grounds, when he was set upon by a sheep-dog, bright-eyed, sharp-muzzled, righteously indignant and angry.
Truly, Smith guarded the schoolmarm with the vigilance of a sheep-dog.
Having no excuse for lingering longer, I slipped out, while Linton was engaged in timidly rebuffing the advances of a friendly sheep-dog.
Meanwhile the bull-dog, the black-and-tan terrier, Alick's sheep-dog, and the gander hissing at a safe distance from the pony's heels carried out the idea of Mrs.
