Do we say dogged or dogged

dogged 337 occurrences

Then a certain dogged persistency I possess came to my rescue, and I re-entered the room at a leap and stood before the lounge and its pile of cushions.

"I was not the only one who had a drop too much down-town," was the dogged assertion with which he met all questions on this subject.

" "I have accepted the case and I shall continue to interest myself in it," he assured me, with a dogged rather than genial persistence.

They are part of that large body of native labour, Chinese, Kaffir, Basuto, which is now helping our own men everywhere to push on and push up, as the new labour forces behind them release more and more of the fighting men for that dogged pursuit which is going on therein that blue distance to our right!where the German line swings stubbornly back, south-east, from the Vimy Ridge.

By senior year the sort of trouble that a Christian boy encounters in school was almost all ended, but it had been more through his dogged resistance to opposition than because of any special zest in Christian service.

"If your intentions are never known beforehand," he said, "still your habit of going forth alone in places to which your steps might easily be dogged, where you might be shot from an ambush or drowned by a sudden attack from a submarine vessel, will soon be pretty generally understood, if, as I fear, a regular watch is set upon your life.

I called the ladies one day into the outer grounds to see a new carriage, capable, according to its arrangement, of containing from two to eight persons, and a balloon of great size and new construction which Davilo had urgently counselled me to procure, as capable of sudden use in some of those daily thickening perils, of which I could see no other sign than occasional evidence that my steps were watched and dogged.

And now we began to be haunted with spies, our steps seeming to be dogged even in our own garden, where we were aware of people moving about behind trees and bushes, as if hearkening after our talk; or we caught sight of faces peering in at the windows when we were at evening prayer.

Little faces that should have been handsome, darkened with the scowl of sullen, dogged suffering.

In lieu of the dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to see, there lay a mere child, sunk in a deep sleep.

Every one did so who passed her, (so the man who dogged her was the less suspected.

When they wish to leave a locality where they have been disturbed, they will make for some distant point, and march on with dogged and inflexible purpose.

This dogged conservatism has both its value and its grotesque side.

And the splendour of this French courage, in the face of what looks like defeat, is equalled at least by the calm and dogged assurance of our English troops.

The reluctant train gave a dogged joggle and jerk, hung back, dragged on, moved a trifle quicker; and still the only proof that he knew she was herehere within three steps of himwas the careful failure of those eyes ever to light on her.

For generations the race had been dogged by crime and punishment; and in choosing for his theme the murder of Agamemnon the dramatist could assume in his audience so close a familiarity with the past history of the House that he could call into existence by an allusive word that sombre background of woe to enhance the terrors of his actual presentation.

I have cursed the Inns in Germany; commended the Brothels at Venice; the Freedom of Conversation in France; and tho' I never was out of this dear Town, and fifty Miles about it, have been three Nights together dogged by Bravoes for an Intreague with a Cardinal's Mistress at Rome.

There ascended with the daring Miller a Gentleman, whose Name I could not learn, with a dogged Air, as unsatisfied that he was not Principal.

The musicians of a typical German band dig through the evening's numbers with the same dogged perseverance and perspiration that they would exercise in tunnelling through a mountain.

With dogged mien he stalks gravely back to his stronghold.

Speak, mansave me: save your own soul from mortal peril whilst there is yet time for mercy and repentance!" Hornby's expression of surprise and confusion had gradually changed during this appeal to its usual character of dogged impassibility.

On the other hand, the look of the negro was guilty, dogged, and cunning.

"Or do you prefer to withdraw it?" Bertie maintained a dogged silence.

He was thoroughly angry at the dogged way in which she had received this free and generous peace-making, and he could not but show it.

By sheer dogged nerve he drove to camp, drank cold coffee left from his early breakfast, and decided that the bite of a Ford, while it is poisonous, is not necessarily fatal unless it attacks one in a vital spot.

dogged 337 occurrences

Then a certain dogged persistency I possess came to my rescue, and I re-entered the room at a leap and stood before the lounge and its pile of cushions.

"I was not the only one who had a drop too much down-town," was the dogged assertion with which he met all questions on this subject.

" "I have accepted the case and I shall continue to interest myself in it," he assured me, with a dogged rather than genial persistence.

They are part of that large body of native labour, Chinese, Kaffir, Basuto, which is now helping our own men everywhere to push on and push up, as the new labour forces behind them release more and more of the fighting men for that dogged pursuit which is going on therein that blue distance to our right!where the German line swings stubbornly back, south-east, from the Vimy Ridge.

By senior year the sort of trouble that a Christian boy encounters in school was almost all ended, but it had been more through his dogged resistance to opposition than because of any special zest in Christian service.

"If your intentions are never known beforehand," he said, "still your habit of going forth alone in places to which your steps might easily be dogged, where you might be shot from an ambush or drowned by a sudden attack from a submarine vessel, will soon be pretty generally understood, if, as I fear, a regular watch is set upon your life.

I called the ladies one day into the outer grounds to see a new carriage, capable, according to its arrangement, of containing from two to eight persons, and a balloon of great size and new construction which Davilo had urgently counselled me to procure, as capable of sudden use in some of those daily thickening perils, of which I could see no other sign than occasional evidence that my steps were watched and dogged.

And now we began to be haunted with spies, our steps seeming to be dogged even in our own garden, where we were aware of people moving about behind trees and bushes, as if hearkening after our talk; or we caught sight of faces peering in at the windows when we were at evening prayer.

Little faces that should have been handsome, darkened with the scowl of sullen, dogged suffering.

In lieu of the dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to see, there lay a mere child, sunk in a deep sleep.

Every one did so who passed her, (so the man who dogged her was the less suspected.

When they wish to leave a locality where they have been disturbed, they will make for some distant point, and march on with dogged and inflexible purpose.

This dogged conservatism has both its value and its grotesque side.

And the splendour of this French courage, in the face of what looks like defeat, is equalled at least by the calm and dogged assurance of our English troops.

The reluctant train gave a dogged joggle and jerk, hung back, dragged on, moved a trifle quicker; and still the only proof that he knew she was herehere within three steps of himwas the careful failure of those eyes ever to light on her.

For generations the race had been dogged by crime and punishment; and in choosing for his theme the murder of Agamemnon the dramatist could assume in his audience so close a familiarity with the past history of the House that he could call into existence by an allusive word that sombre background of woe to enhance the terrors of his actual presentation.

I have cursed the Inns in Germany; commended the Brothels at Venice; the Freedom of Conversation in France; and tho' I never was out of this dear Town, and fifty Miles about it, have been three Nights together dogged by Bravoes for an Intreague with a Cardinal's Mistress at Rome.

There ascended with the daring Miller a Gentleman, whose Name I could not learn, with a dogged Air, as unsatisfied that he was not Principal.

The musicians of a typical German band dig through the evening's numbers with the same dogged perseverance and perspiration that they would exercise in tunnelling through a mountain.

With dogged mien he stalks gravely back to his stronghold.

Speak, mansave me: save your own soul from mortal peril whilst there is yet time for mercy and repentance!" Hornby's expression of surprise and confusion had gradually changed during this appeal to its usual character of dogged impassibility.

On the other hand, the look of the negro was guilty, dogged, and cunning.

"Or do you prefer to withdraw it?" Bertie maintained a dogged silence.

He was thoroughly angry at the dogged way in which she had received this free and generous peace-making, and he could not but show it.

By sheer dogged nerve he drove to camp, drank cold coffee left from his early breakfast, and decided that the bite of a Ford, while it is poisonous, is not necessarily fatal unless it attacks one in a vital spot.

Do we say   dogged   or  dogged