yard-dog

So they have placed a safe bet on Terry's yard-dog vibe.

Fabio Capello risks all by giving John Terry his bark back | Paul Hayward 2011

The two bodies were decomposing, as were those of the little dog and of a large yard-dog.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The yard-dog was about to approach, he scanned me suspiciously — and with a bark ran away.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

‘Yours is a bad illness for a Snow-man!’ said the yard-dog.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

‘Bow-wow!’ barked the yard-dog, and walked three times round himself, and then crept into his kennel to sleep.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

‘Who were those two?’ asked the Snow-man of the yard-dog.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

‘Ah! now I understand why he loved the stove,’ said the yard-dog.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

‘You know nothing at all about it,’ said the yard-dog.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

Amilcare snarled at him, cut his words out of his mouth, struck him, kicked him once like a yard-dog.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

As to his fitness to be an errand boy, he could not carry a message from the kitchen to the cowhouse without stopping by the way to play with the yard-dog, and a hedgehog in the path would probably have led him astray, if Thomasina had had a fit and he had been despatched for the doctor.

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