On the next block the old drunkard's yellow cur ran across the street, and after interchanging the compliments of the season, ran back after his staggering master.

I thought and dreamed of nothing but mangy curs and 'dirty dogs.'

Uncle Carey knew the little cur, and while Dinnie was shrieking for Satan, he was saying under his breath: "Well, I swear!I swear!I swear!"

Nasty black cur, how did he get here?" "Where?

But a little later he brought back word that Watts said the newcomer was an ornery curthat he was born an ornery curthat he was meant to be an ornery cur, and never would be anything but an ornery cur.

You'll wait, if you please, until some merchant just like yourself, the dirty cur, will strip you bare, and then, you'll see, he'll make an agreement at ten kopeks on the ruble, and he'll wallow in his millions, and won't think you're worth spitting at.

For, ere thou died'st, thou wert an officer, I lie not, by these nails: a squire's place; For the vile cur became a countess's taster: So died the dog.

Had the little creature been one of the unfortunate Indian curs, the two hunters would probably have turned from the sickening sight with disgust, feeling that, however much they might dislike such cruelty, it would be of no use attempting to interfere with Indian usages.

The people of Goascoran stared at us as we rode through their streets, but none came near us until after we had vigorously pounded the magical drum, when the alguazils made their appearance, followed by all the urchins of the place, and by a crowd of lean and hungry curs,the latter evidently in watery-mouthed anticipation of obtaining from the strangers, what they seldom got at home, a stray crust or a marrow-bone.

You must not, cavaliere, judge either of my mission or of my creed by the yelping of the miserable curs that dog the heels of all great enterprises.

One day his master pretended to be disgusted at this, and when he had thrown him a bone as usual, he said, "What on earth is the good of a lazy cur like you?

Ruspoli was leaning up against a pillar, watching Orazio as he would a mischievous cur.

Many a native cur met his end hunting these animals, cut to pieces with their tusks, so that packs, trained for the purpose, were used to bay them until the hunter could arrive and dispatch them with a rifle.

He had been bitten, on the sly, by half the ill-natured curs in the settlement, and had only shown his teeth in return.

or when the goat stood handy, suffer her To nurse her firstling, and himself go milk a blatant cur? COMETAS.

"'Tis some peevish cur," I muttered, "yapping at my study door, Only that,but it's a bore.

" "He's a pestilential cur, that has got himself introduced into the family, and the sooner we get quit of him the better.

The gods above, that know great Furor's fame, And do adore grand poet Furor's name, Granted long since at heaven's high parliament, That whoso Furor shall immortalise, No yawning goblins shall frequent his grave; Nor any bold, presumptuous cur shall dare To lift his leg against his sacred dust.

Finally, he is a querulous cur, whom no horse can pass by without barking at; yea, in the deep silence of night the very moonshine openeth his clamorous mouth.

We soon discovered that much was to be got between the rival curs of uncleanness; and the true object of my mission here is to discover all that is to be known of these French and English.

"This lad an' I," he said, laying his hand on my shoulder, after attracting the attention of all within sound of his voice, "have within a short time seen just such scoundrelly curs as you are provin' yourselves to be.

"You know what the working-men did there to the slimy curs, the gunmen, and the stool-pigeons of the capitalistic class.

"You might think he was a sneaking, traitorous cur of a wolf to turn against his own breed and lure them to death.

Had I arm'd my heels with rowels, I had slain the treacherous cur.'

Her slight and haughty farewell showed that he had tried her patiencehad behaved like an ungenerous cur.