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Dogs Isle of. a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames dogs [dȯgz] (mining engineering) Dogs Argos Odysseus’ pet, recognizes him after an absence of twenty years. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey 17:298]3 the thin man’s dog. [Am. Lit.: The Thin Man] almost a Pomeranian, companion of Jolyon Forsyte at Robin Hill. [Br. Lit.: “Indian Summer of a Forsyte” ] monstrous goblin-dog, a nocturnal specter portending death. [Br. Folklore: EB (1963) III, 110] Byron’s favorite dog. [Br. Hist.: Harvey, 239] after murder of his master, leads wolf pack. [Am. Lit.: The Call of the Wild] dog. [TV: “The Roy Rogers Show” in Terrace, II, 260] Bill Sykes’s dog. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist] three-headed beast guarding gates of hell. [Classical Myth.: Zimmerman, 55–56] elderly poodle that accompanied Steinbeck on trip across U.S. [Am. Lit.: John Steinbeck Travels with Charley in Weiss, 471] Richard Nixon’s cocker spaniel; used in his defense of slush fund (1952). [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 126] Dr. Blimber’s clumsy dog. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] hound who travels widely. [Children’s Lit.: Dominic] Franklin Roosevelt’s dog. [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 126] small, majestically self-important, and smelling of violets. [Am. Lit.: Booth Tarkington Seventeen in Magill I, 882] Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel, subject of a biography. [Br. Lit.: Woolf Flush in Barnhart, 446] greyhound slain by its master for killing his baby; he discovers that Gelert had killed a wolf menacing the child, who is found safe. [Eng. Ballad: Beddgelert in Brewer Dictionary, 93] gigantic “fiend dog” of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale. [Br. Lit.: The Hound of the Baskervilles] Dora’s little pet, lives in a tiny pagoda. [Br. Lit.: Dickens David Copperf eld] canine star of popular film and TV series. [TV: Terrace, II, 13–15; Radio: Buxton, 135]
floppy, self-centered, playful Great Dane. [Comics: Marmaduke] ghostly black spaniel that haunted Peel Castle. [Br. Folklore: Benét, 649] companion on Thames boat trip. [Br. Lit.: Jerome Three Men in a Boat in Magill II, 1018] Newfoundland, nurse to the children. [Br. Lit.: J. M. Barrie Peter Pan] Alexander the Great’s dog. [Gk. Hist.: Harvey, 239] early film hero; German shepherd. [Radio: Buxton, 200] Little Orphan Annie’s dog. [Comics: “Little Orphan Annie” in Horn, 459] world’s most famous beagle. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 542] dog accompanying Sally, Dick, and Jane in primers. [Am. Cult.: Misc.] pet terrier who accompanies Dorothy to Oz. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At the fall of darkness they swung the dogs into a cluster of spruce trees on the edge of the waterway and made a camp. And soon the dogs were all tearing down the field of young wheat next to ours. Half-way down the long, low snow passage or tunnel that led to the inner door of the house you could hear snappings and yelpings, as the dogs of his sleigh-team, released from the day's work, scuffled for warm places. |
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