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Definition of Sleuthhounds
1. sleuthhound [n] - See also: sleuthhound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleuthhounds
Literary usage of Sleuthhounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1888)
"It is said that these snakes have an exquisite sense of smell, by which they can
follow a victim's track with the unerring certainty of sleuthhounds. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"[stricken dumb, The sword is here as harmless as the staff Of crippled age ; its
sleuthhounds are at laugh, Justice appears not onlv blind but halt. ..."
3. Early English Romances in Verse by Edith Rickert (1908)
"To drive away your miscast, you shall hear the bugles blow and watch the beagles
and seven-score sleuthhounds in their tracking. ..."
4. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account by Charles Williams (1828)
"... doom'd to bear The Tartar's blows and bondage vile— And slew him in his resolute
mood, Though Terror's worst beside him stood, And all her sleuthhounds ..."
5. The Saga Library by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (1894)
"The next morning, when men were ware of their running away, they fared after them
with sleuthhounds, and happened on them in the wood where they had hidden ..."
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