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mastiff

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Dog \Dog\ (d[o^]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.] (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus Canis , esp. the domestic dog ( Canis familiaris ). Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, ...

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Mastiff is the third novel in Tamora Pierce 's Provost's Dog trilogy, about a young Provost guard-woman in a fantasy kingdom called Tortall . The novel, as with all the Beka Cooper books, is written in first person diary form. The actual diary is said to ...

Usage examples of mastiff.

He even showed the mastiff to the trooper, not that the man wanted to get too close.

Between Ozzie and the mastiff, Jess could pretend she was too busy to be embarrassed about that kiss.

The mastiff lay in front of the crate, his head on his paws, staring inside as if he could will the little female to come out and play.

With a backhand swing of his gun, The Shadow cuffed the second mastiff so forcibly that it lost its balance and wallowed like a puppy.

April had her eye out for a mastiff, she thought, that wore a chain leash.

She took the mugs into the kitchen and dumped them in the sink, reminding herself to tell him they had to do a lot more to find that mastiff walker.

April put the mastiff with the chain leash on the table to assign a dog-fancier detective to track his owner down.

She was pretty sure it was a mastiff, but there was more than one kind.

It resembled a giant mastiff with black-crusted fangs and a shimmering coat of maggots.

The barking behind me reached a new frenzy and then I knew the mastiff had been let loose, for the sound took on a new, more excited pitch.

The mastiff seemed to be panting in my left ear now and I realised he was very close.

The mastiff came racing back and I went racing on again, so he found himself running in the wrong direction once more.

The mastiff stopped too and we both faced each other across the grass, our shoulders and chests heaving with the effort.

The mastiff got a whiff of it and momentarily lost interest in me, then we both tore off down that smelly path.

We rolled over in a struggling heap, fox, chicken and dog, but parted immediately when the mastiff joined us.