Yet so strong and vigorous was the man whom they tried to hold that as often as he could find his feet he dragged them after him from end to end of the passage, as a boar might pull the curs which had fastened on to his haunches.

He said he was like an old blind man's dog in a pack of barking curs; forced to do as they did and bark at the passers-by.

I being either delicate or timorous, less desirous of honour, or less capable of sylvan heroism, was always the favourite of my mother; because I kept my coat clean, and my complexion free from freckles, and did not come home, like my brother, mired and tanned, nor carry corn in my hat to the horse, nor bring dirty curs into the parlour.

He bought from a Siwash Indian the most contemptible-looking cur ever beheld at the inlet, and he christened the unfortunate beastDennis.

, The thief with love seduced the maid; Cajoled the cur, and stroked his head, And bought his secrecy with bread.

Go into the meeting, and curse the cur to his face!"

He paused a moment, eyeing the cur which stopped when he stopped, still regarding him uncertainly.

Except for bodies here and there the deck was clear, men were struggling in the chains; two below in the boat were endeavoring to cast off, and Schmitt, with Estevan helpless in his arms, staggered to the side, and flung the shrieking Spanish cur overboard out into the dark water.

If for flogging poor little children, unoffending school-boys, pedagogues are damned, he, upon my word of honor, is now on Ixion's wheel, flogging the dock-tailed cur that turns it.'

He had forgotten Bonamy's cur, but the smell of Bonamy's cur would instantly have thrilled him with the old feelings.

The lighting of the gas had frightened the cur back to his yard, and as the forty-fourth tick ceased, his bow wow! was heard again, and it lasted while the pendulum swung back and forth just fifteen times.

What a cur he had been to hide from her so long!

By night also the blacks, with the whites occasionally joining in, sought the canny 'possum and the embattled 'coon; in spare times by day they hied their curs after the fleeing Brer Rabbit, or built and baited seductive traps for turkeys and quail; and fishing was available both by day and by night.

"And my dog isn' a nasty cur; it only shows your ignorance.

" "And you didn't kill the cur on sight?" roared Browning.

"I knocked down a cur of a lieutenant," he said, and laughed defiantly.

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!"

Such curs I don't like.

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

Afterward she spoke, without any particular violence, as one might order a strange cur from his room.

He was allers an ornery beast, an' combin' his hair an' puttin' tassels an' fancy harness on him ain't goin' t' make a racer outen a cur.

But I was not going to play either the cur or the fool, so I said: "Your trick, sir, and therefore your lead!

Thou, too!" cried the Italian, whose blood had mounted at the first attack on his faithful follower, and which fairly boiled when he witnessed the cowardly and wanton conduct of this new assailant"art not satisfied with feigning prayers and godliness with the credulous, but thou must even feign enmity to my dog, because it is the fashion to praise the cur of St. Bernard at the expense of all other brutes!

I don't think she liked having him call me a cur; still, I have heard her say that she preferred curs, for they have more character than well-bred dogs.

Prove that I owe the Dame a dinner.' 'Friend,' quoth the cur, 'I meant no harm; Then, why so captious?