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- noun Alternative spelling of
hellhound .
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Examples
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Sightings of demons in Yorkshire have included a hideous shadow-like hell-hound with no discernible facial features which collided with a car between Northallerton and Leeming Bar on the A684.
intertribal: the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010
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Sightings of demons in Yorkshire have included a hideous shadow-like hell-hound with no discernible facial features which collided with a car between Northallerton and Leeming Bar on the A684.
the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010
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It was the arm of Tom Dixon, and Tom Dixon was a weaver of the first class in a factory of that hell-hound and master, Roger Vanderwater.
A CURIOUS FRAGMENT 2010
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We after the convict, and a hell-hound, as likely as not, after us.
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I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
Dangerous Encounter Walter Jon Williams 2010
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I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
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The story tells of Tom Dixon, a weaver of the first class in the factory in Kingsbury, Alabama, called "Hell's Bottom," owned by "that hell-hound and master, Roger Vanderwater," a line that began 300 years past with the Vange family, notably Bill "Sly" Vange of the government's secret service.
“. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.” 2008
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The Scottish “hell-hound” is dead but is peace established?
Archive 2010-02-14 Bill Crider 2010
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It was suggested, of course, by the story of the family hell-hound, and by the desire to frighten old Sir Charles to death.
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So too his physical appearance aids the effect; Moura is remarkably youthful, despite his gravelly deep voice and the severe dark rings around his eyes, meaning his transformation into snarling mad man or psychotic hell-hound is profound and complete.
Simon is mesmorised by Jose Padilha’s ELITE SQUAD on DVD… | Obsessed With Film 2009
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