What is "boarhound"

Usage examples of "boarhound".

There was an enormously great Danish boarhound, which had, unperceived by us, followed Mrs.

Place, followed by a brindled German boarhound, walk once or twice round it, and seat himself on a bench facing the casino.

But when finally they kicked open the door and burst into the neat rooms, only an old, white-muzzled boarhound lay regarding them with rheumy eyes, his tail slowly thumping a welcome.

The boarhound pack was in full cry not two hundred meters ahead, and then there was an enraged squealing sound.

Miles, on the other hand, had slavered at her hand like a trained boarhound ready for the signal to kill.

Those were no match for men with the strength and boarhound determination of Clodius Afer and his fellow volunteers.

For wild-boar hunting and perilous doublings, there were forty boarhounds as hairy as bears.

The boarhounds leaped yelping and biting in a mob around the dead boar, but they slunk back, whimpering, ears pinned down, as Prince Sanglant laid about him with his fist, battering them back as if he were the beast being hunted.

Sire Hugh Calverley of Branshill Castle across the Malverns, and his son, begging of him to bring his famous boarhounds, Hecate and Styx.

I start out to-morrow morning with the sheep I should like to take with me two strong boarhounds, a falcon, and a set of bagpipes.

Your Grace, himself, le Chevalier Marc Marcel de Montjoie de Vires, and one solitary FitzGerald, a guardsman named Sean something or other, who will be about as outclassed on such a council as a lapdog among as many boarhounds.