12 examples of bandog in sentences

Better Have Bandogs worry all of you, than I To languish in a torment that feedes on me As if the Furies bit me.

" "Bandogs" (or, more correctly speaking, "band-dogs")dogs that had to be kept chained on account of their fierceness.

Orion, gentleman dog-keeper, huntsman, come into the court: look you bring all hounds and no bandogs.

Out, you bawling bandog!

"Againe the dreadfull Cycones him dismay, And blacke Laestrigones, a people stout; Then greedie Scilla, under whom there bay Manie great bandogs, which her gird about; 540 Then doo the AEtnean Cyclops him affray, And deep Charybdis gulphing in and out; Lastly the squalid lakes of Tartarie, And griesly feends of hell him terrifie.

Molossus, Alan, Alaunt, Tie-dog, Bandog (or Band-dog), were among the number.

The names Tie-dog and Bandog intimate that the Mastiff was commonly kept for guard, but many were specially trained for baiting bears, imported lions, and bulls.

Like the Mastiff, of which it is a smaller form, it is a descendant of the "Alaunt," Mastive, or Bandog, described by Dr. Caius, who states that "the Mastyve or Bandogge is vaste, huge, stubborne, ougly and eager, of a hevy, and burthenous body, and therefore but of little swiftnesse, terrible and frightful to beholde, and more fearce and fell than any Arcadian curre.

"The time when screech-owls cry, and bandogs howl.

ib., w. Bandog.

"Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, The time of night when Troy was set on fire, The time when screechowls cry, and bandogs howl.

The ride round the walls at night was dreary enough, over broken ground, occupied by bandogs barking at us as we passed.

12 examples of  bandog  in sentences