246 examples of canine in sentences

Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory^, piscatorial; molluscous^, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial^, solidungulate^, soliped^. 367.

The canine, like the human, gentleman demands in his misdemeanours Montaigne's "je ne sais quoi de genéréux."

To follow for ten minutes in the street some swaggering, canine cavalier, is to receive a lesson in dramatic art and the cultured conduct of the body; in every act and gesture you see him true to a refined conception; and the dullest cur, beholding him, pricks up his ear and proceeds to imitate and parody that charming ease.

In that society they reign without a rival: conscious queens; and in the only instance of a canine wife-beater that has ever fallen under my notice, the criminal was somewhat excused by the circumstances of his story.

The canine conscience did not solve the problem with a pound of tea at Christmas.

But the type is one well marked, both in the human and the canine family.

This was no less than the absolute refusal of Dick Varley's canine property to follow him.

" Then they did it again, and again, and again, but without the slightest apparent advancement in the path of canine knowledge; and then they went home.

If so, it was a fortunate accident, for it served as the tiny fulcrum on which to place the point of that mighty lever which was destined ere long to raise him to the pinnacle of canine erudition.

Recognising this advance in our national love of dogs and the growing demand for information on their distinguishing characteristics, I am persuaded that there is ample room for a concise and practical handbook on matters canine.

It is not until we come to examine the records of the higher civilisations of Assyria and Egypt that we discover any distinct varieties of canine form.

Every town throughout Egypt had its place of interment for canine mummies.

Under jaw broad to the end; canine teeth healthy, powerful, and wide apart; incisors level, or the lower projecting beyond the upper, but never sufficiently so as to become visible when the mouth is closed.

Some of the best specimens which the writer has seen have been black-and-tans, and a few years ago on the award of a first prize to a bitch of this colour, a long but non-conclusive argument was held in the canine press.

The teeth from canine to canine, including the six front teeth, should be in a straight line.

The teeth from canine to canine, including the six front teeth, should be in a straight line.

THE MINIATURE BULLDOG Fifty or sixty years ago, Toyor, rather, as a recent edict of the Kennel Club requires them to be dubbed, MiniatureBulldogs were common objects of the canine country-side.

But Tell was the hero of the shows at which he appeared, and his owner was recognised as being the introducer into this country of the magnificent variety of the canine race that now holds such a prominent position as a show dog.

He was a clever dog, and could fetch and carry, sit up on his haunches, extend his paw to shake hands, and possessed several other canine accomplishments.

He stands still and he makes his field stand still; then may be seen that magnificent proof of canine brain-power, the fan-shaped forward movement of a well-drafted, old-established pack of foxhounds, making good by two distinct castsright-and left-handedthe ground that lies in front of them and on each side.

It convinced me more profoundly than ever of the canine fidelity and semi-animal characteristics of his race.

She lost no opportunity, upon the most trifling occasion, of displaying her animosity; and ever and anon eyed me with a furious glance of canine hunger for my destruction.

One feels most for the sheep and lambs, when the softened fancy recurs to the streams and hedgerows, and pleasant pastures, from whence the woolly exiles have been ejected; and yet the emotion of pity isnot wholly unaccompanied by admiration at the sagacity of the canine disciplinarians that bay them remorselessly forward, and sternly refuse the stragglers permission to make a reconnoissance on the road.

It is rather oddly said, "that Alderman Wood shortly before the demise of George the Fourth, obtained leave to bring in a bill for the purpose of preventing the spread of canine madness."

We would not have drawn your attention, reader, to the antics of our canine friends, were it not for the fact that these antics attracted the notice of a personage who merits particular description.

246 examples of  canine  in sentences