What is "wirehaired"

Usage examples of "wirehaired".

He was of medium size, a wirehaired male who was nothing less than an energetic mass of textbook muttness.

A hand flashed briefly before the image of the craggy, wirehaired face.

A small dog, a wirehaired terrier, came slowly round the chairs, with twitching nose, and sniffed at Reggie and whimpered.

According to the membership lists distributed yearly by the Cambridge Dog Training Club, Hope has wirehaired pointing griffons.

Like most pet owners, Carmen adored her wirehaired dachshund and assumed everyone else did, too, which in Crozet was a relatively safe assumption.

Surely not McGee, not that big brown loose-jointed, wirehaired beach rambler, that lazy fish-catching, girlwatching, grey-eyed iconoclastic hustler.

The church whose symbol is the trinity new-style: Father, Son and Wirehaired Fox Terrier.

A little wirehaired dachshund appeared from behind the sofa, went to Hamish and pressed its small shivering body against his legs.

One is a black-and-white wirehaired Jack Russell with star-quality cuteness.

I dreamed a fellow asked me if I wanted a dog and I said yeah, I'd like to have a dog and he went off and came back with a little black dog with stiff black gold-tipped hair and sad eyes that looked something like a wirehaired terrier.

He read all the society columns, and the only episode of his burglarious past to which in his present saved condition he could look back with real pleasure was the occasion when he had got in through a scullery window belonging to a countess in her own right and had been bitten in the seat of his trousers by what virtually amounted to a titled wirehaired terrier.