wag-tail

And not a bird was seen or heard, neither rail nor water-hen, wag-tail nor reed-warbler.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

But it's I who am to give her to you, which is more to the point, young man; for it is going to be hard enough for me to let the little wag-tail leave my nest.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

Oswald is a mongrel, and the son and heir of a mongrel: ducking to everyone in power, he is a wag-tail: white with fear, he is a goose.

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

His mother liked to get hold of the names of the boys and especially of any who were at all intimate with her son; the more she heard, the more she wanted to know; there was no gorging her to satiety; she was like a ravenous young cuckoo being fed upon a grass plot by a water wag-tail, she would swallow all that Ernest could bring her, and yet be as hungry as before.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!

Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

Waving her fan, and tripping over the pavement like a wag-tail, she came directly towards the disputants.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

And not a bird was seen or heard, neither rail nor water-hen, wag-tail nor reed-warbler.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862