41 Verbs to Use for the Word terriers

Mr. Carrick, of Carlisle, was also a prominent owner years ago, and showed some excellent terriers, the best being Carlisle Tack, Trick, and Tyro.

He was so accurate an observer that one regrets he did not describe the Macleod's terriers and their work.

I can recollect the time when no gentleman, still less any lady, would have owned a terrier with its ears on.

As she stopped at the broken hedge a man ran past carrying a small wet terrier, and two or three more came up with spades.

It has always been Mr. Tinne's principle to aim at producing the best terrier he could, irrespective of the fads of this kennel or that, and his judgment has been amply vindicated, as the prize lists of every large show will testify.

With fingers that dripped gold, he tried to pat the bounding terrier.

The man who elects to breed Fox-terriers must have the bumps of patience and hope very strongly developed, as if the tyro imagines that he has only to mate his bitch to one of the known prize-winning dogs of the day in order to produce a champion, he had better try some other breed.

I've got an English bull-terrier down there that's taken a ribbon or so.

I know an old Argyllshire family who consider that to improve their terriers they ought all to have browny yellow ears.

" He rambled a long way over the hill, and came back to Fellside by a path of his own discovering, which brought him to a wooden gate leading into the stable-yard, just in time to meet Maulevrier and Lady Mary emerging from the kennel, where his lordship had been inspecting the terriers.

In the National Portrait Gallery there is a portrait of Mary of Modena, Queen Consort of James II., painted in 1670 by William Wissing, who has introduced at the Queen's side a terrier that is undoubtedly of this type.

No cow is more placid, no lamb more gentle; he would not harm a tsetse fly or kick a snapping terrier.

I was once leading a little fox terrier with a string, because on several occasions he had given me the slip and caused me to be a little late in court.

But he loved strife as the young Apollo loved strifeor a pure-blooded bull terrier.

Dr. Johnson, who visited these islands with Boswell in 1773, noticed these terriers and observed that otters and weasels were plentiful in Skye, that the foxes were numerous, and that they were hunted by small dogs.

We passed a small fox terrier lying on the pavement dead, and somehow it has remained in my mind as a most pathetic sight.

young man, get off my coat!" He picked the terrier up and threw him softly on the bed, but Tiny got down at once and curled himself up on the fur mat by Stafford's feet.

From these, however, must be excepted those who possess wire-haired terriers, from whose coats an admirable muzzle can be extracted in a few minutes.

Again, what average boy would not prefer a fox-terrier to a goldfish for a pet?

" Gilpin's portrait of Colonel Thornton's celebrated Pitch, painted in 1790, presents a terrier having a smooth white coat with a black patch at the set-on of the undocked tail, and black markings on the face and ears.

Round in mad, eager pursuit rattle the terriers, thirsting for her blood.

cried the driver, who was no less distinguished a whip than Lord Maulevrier, and who had recognised the terriers.

As a water dog he is, of course, in his element; for work on land requiring a hard, strong, fast and resolute terrier he is, needless to say, of great value; and he is said to be also, when trainedas can easily be imagined when one considers his power of scent, his strength, sagacity, and speeda most excellent gun-dog.

It was considered at one juncture that he was being bred too big, and at another that he was being brought too much to resemble a red wire-hair Fox-terrier.

When they got to the boat he proposed to roll the terrier in his coat, but Maude shook her head.

41 Verbs to Use for the Word  terriers