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  • Press close against the hurdles, and the shivering housedogs creep

    Collected Poems 2003

  • You've no call for running out till the housedogs bark.

    A Present From the Gentlemen 1999

  • Even the housedogs were unfriendly to us, and fell upon us with peculiar viciousness.

    The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • Predatory behavior - hunting for food - is just one of many reasons canines, whether wild or housedogs, may attack people, experts say.

    unknown title 2009

  • Predatory behavior - hunting for food - is just one of many reasons canines, whether wild or housedogs, may attack people, experts say.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • "I suppose they would want to be housedogs," says Mrs. Lossing, a little dubiously, but looking fondly at Harry's handsome face; "you know, somehow, all our dogs, no matter how properly they start in a kennel, end by being so hurt if we keep them there that they come into the house.

    Stories of a Western Town Octave Thanet 1892

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