She was a regular greyhound of a horse, no spare flesh, yet wiry and able to do a great deal of work.

The mehter or dog-keeper is also in attendance with a couple of greyhounds in leash, and a motley pack of wicked little terriers frisking and frolicking behind him.

I.The Knight-Errant of La Mancha In a certain village of La Mancha, there lived one of those old-fashioned gentlemen who keep a lance in the rack, an ancient target, a lean horse, and a greyhound for coursing.

This cause has been a frequent source of constitutional weakness, and it was deplorably a fault in the Italian Greyhounds of half a century ago.

Others hold that as there were rough-coated Greyhounds in Ireland, it is this dog, under another name, which is now accepted.

The porpoise has discarded one pair, turned the other into decent fins, and recovered a grace and power of motion in water which are not equalled by the greyhound on land.

One day I slipped a brace of large greyhounds at a female who carried one of these useful appendages, which she soon dropped and escaped: it was formed of a large bough, over which some large leaves were spread, and fastened on simply by the shoots of the bough sticking into the leaf.

This showed what could be done, and in 1839 Samuel Cunard began the great fleet of Atlantic greyhounds by founding the Cunard Line.

One of the engravings was a greyhound with an arrow through him, a crest of my grandmother's, whose maiden name was Noble.

It appears like descending from the sublime to the ridiculous to mention the Greyhound as a show dog, after the many brilliant performances that have been recorded of him in the leash, but there are many dogs elegant in outline with fine muscular development that are to be seen in the judging ring.

Just now, he looked more like a greyhound than a pig.

The "Dogs Inn" took its name from two stone greyhounds beside its porch supporters of the arms of that old family from which the Westcotes had purchased Bayfield; and the Orange Room from a tradition that William of Orange had spent a night there on his march from Torbay.

The thyroid type differs as much from the adrenal type as does a greyhound from a bull-dog.