Dog that might be named Shep

Usage examples of collie.

You feel like trying to escape, remember that the amphicyons are outside and so are the sabertooth cats and a really trick orange salamander the size of a collie dog with venom like a king cobra Have a nice rest.

He was the maddest, gladdest man in all Green Valley that day until he remembered that he had sent Nan no gift, not even a greeting or a word of thanks for the beautiful collie dog she had sent him.

The inevitable farm collie rushed at me in the inevitable way and made all the inevitable noises and threats until a tired-looking woman even more faded than her housedress shushed him and shooed him and then came out, screen door snapping shut behind her, to meet me.

And a lovely little Pekingese, for example, or a prize spaniel, has even less in its head than an ugly Irish collie.

It had been built for a middle-sized dog, like a collie or setter or, yes, a Weimaraner, and I had to lay in a fetal position to fit, but that was the least of my problems.

English collie, with a brain volume of about twenty-five cubic centimeters, and a ratio of brain to body weight about half that of comparable contemporary mammals.

Mike and Carol were among the leading breeders and exhibitors of show collies during the 1970s, a hobby which led them to move to Cincinnati and purchase a boarding and grooming kennel.

And then, one of the Gnawers, a female who seemed half wolf and half collie under her grime, lifted her own head and howled.

He saw hayfields, orchards, tea-things spread upon a bank of flowers underneath a hedge, and a collie dog leaping and tumbling shoulder high among the standing grass.

Collie hoped they would get it spread and anchored before the wind strengthened enough to blow it away.

We started uncaching our equipment and moving it here about five years ago, after the collies got tired of dogging our every move.

In many ways the ten men and women in there were as guilty of collaboration with the enemy as were the loyalty-conditioned collies, and it was a little galling to Skyler to have to get them out.

The collies couldn't be allowed even a hint of what was about to happen.

Now came phase two, the mission that gave them the title of Bait: to draw down upon their own heads the worst the collies could offer.

Actually, you're the only one we absolutely have to keep the collies from getting hold of.