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  • Dogs are good at surviving on their own.
  • Maybe the wild dogs were back.
  • Shall we have hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill?
  • Two wise old dogs lay down unleashed.
  • The fineness of the hair may perhaps be ascribed to some peculiarity in the atmosphere, for it is remarkable that the cats, dogs and other animals of the country are to 'a certain extent affected in the same way, and that they all lose much of their distinctive beauty when taken from their native districts.
  • Mom used to say that children and dogs weren't fooled by people.
  • Surely such sleuthing and cleverness deserves more reward than hiding in the bushes and watching the dogs of law ineptly do their duty.
  • More than we have dogs, Kelli added.
  • This was where he had trailed the wild dogs that had attacked her and the dairy herd so long ago.
  • By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he realized what was happening at the copse.
  • With his hand on his saddlebow, he was ready to dismount and stab the wolf, when she suddenly thrust her head up from among that mass of dogs, and then her forepaws were on the edge of the gully.
  • Two huntsmen galloped up to the dogs; one in a red cap, the other, a stranger, in a green coat.
  • Their horses, bridled and with high saddles, stood near them and there too the dogs were lying.
  • Mom used to say that children and dogs weren't fooled by people.
  • Surely if wild dogs had attacked the deer, they would have left tracks.
  • But their dogs, where are they?
  • We're not dogs, said the ex-captain of police, and looking round he noticed Alpatych.
  • Nightmares persist with the dogs of the law in never ending pursuit.
  • I knew no human saw me that night and yet the dogs of police received information on me and began snapping at my heels!
  • It would be nice to see Uncle Sam's grasping dogs coaxed to bay at the wrong tree as well.
  • After somewhat blackened hot dogs and some canned beans simmered nearby, we returned to the house and left the backyard to the emerging mosquitos.
  • That's what dogs do—and bears.
  • They continued up the hill, past the place where the wild dogs had broken through so long ago, and on toward the spring.
  • The way he had rescued her from the dogs, and from the fox in the chicken house - yes, there were a lot of wonderful memories on this farm.
  • Dogs must be leashed in the climber only area and are not allowed at the bottom of the gorge.
  • The wild dogs were gathering around the circle of light now, and two of them boldly began to devour Penny.
  • Three of the dogs ignored the feast, intent on her progress toward the barn.
  • She turned back to find one of the dogs advancing.
  • If the dogs got any closer, she would have to.
  • The dogs were distracted momentarily by the sound of the telephone, but when it stopped ringing, they advanced further.
  • She tugged again and one of the dogs moved closer, baring his teeth.
  • The other wild dogs vanished.
  • She had stood between the pack of wild dogs and what they wanted.
  • Were the dogs out there someplace again?
  • The lead dog was the Chow she had recognized the night the dogs attacked Brutus.
  • Her one thought was to plug the hole so the dogs couldn't get through.
  • The sound echoed off the bluffs and the dogs retreated.
  • Brutus stopped and eyed the dogs reluctantly.
  • Guard dogs trotted forward to sniff him and his men while a doctor in a blue government jumpsuit approached them, eyes pinned to the injured man carried between two others.
  • Maybe it was wild dogs again.
  • It had been so with the wild dogs - and the bear.
  • He had risked his own life to protect her from the wild dogs, and chased the man who smashed her windshield.
  • If we get into mammals, the biggest killer of humans is dogs – and horses.
  • Two dogs that size didn't present much of a threat to an Elk, or the wild sheep, for that matter.
  • "A couple of dogs," he said.
  • You're welcome to ride along, but if the dogs are wild, we'll shoot them.
  • Hamburgers, hot dogs, onion rings, French fries - you know, the usual fast food stuff.
  • It has a river-frontage of 4.1 m., the Thames making two deep bends, enclosing the Isle of Dogs on the north and a similar peninsula on the Greenwich side.
  • In this regard, they are little different than talking dogs in cartoons.
  • But what if dogs didn't exist and your only experience with them was watching Scooby-Doo?
  • When you imagined dogs being "invented" in the future, you would naturally imagine having conversations with them.
  • It is altogether possible that many people would want to have conversations with their dogs mainly because they regard their dogs as sentient.
  • All manner of breeds of dogs, cats, cows, and horses are bred in similar ways.
  • Maybe you think the British ban on fox hunting with dogs is ridiculous.
  • Yes, pro football player Michael Vick raised dogs for dogfighting.
  • Next to his family he loved his dogs and gun.
  • The men slept in the hall outside our door, and I could feel the deep breathing of the dogs and the hunters as they lay on their improvised beds.
  • Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, to stones, trees, birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call Mildred ran to me or my dogs obeyed my commands.
  • One does not need to read "A Boy I Knew" to understand him--the most generous, sweet-natured boy I ever knew, a good friend in all sorts of weather, who traces the footprints of love in the life of dogs as well as in that of his fellowmen.
  • Among the dogs which received the most attention were the bulldogs.
  • We had Helen's picture taken with a fuzzy, red-eyed little poodle, who got himself into my lady's good graces by tricks and cunning devices known only to dogs with an instinct for getting what they want.
  • One morning she was greatly distressed by finding that one of the dogs had a block fastened to her collar.
  • We observe cats and dogs acquiring the same second nature.
  • I dreamed that I was walking in the dark and was suddenly surrounded by dogs, but I went on undismayed.
  • "Daniel, tell them to saddle for us, and Michael must come with my dogs," she added to the huntsman.
  • Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.
  • When they had gone a little less than a mile, five more riders with dogs appeared out of the mist, approaching the Rostovs.
  • The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood.
  • That instant, when Nicholas saw the wolf struggling in the gully with the dogs, while from under them could be seen her gray hair and outstretched hind leg and her frightened choking head, with her ears laid back (Karay was pinning her by the throat), was the happiest moment of his life.
  • She clicked her teeth (Karay no longer had her by the throat), leaped with a movement of her hind legs out of the gully, and having disengaged herself from the dogs, with tail tucked in again, went forward.
  • It was evident to the dogs, the hunters, and to the wolf herself that all was now over.
  • The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her.
  • A likely thing, killing a fox our dogs had hunted!
  • "Uncle," Rostov, and Ilagin kept stealthily glancing at one another's dogs, trying not to be observed by their companions and searching uneasily for rivals to their own borzois.
  • After supper, over their cherry brandy, Rostov and "Uncle" talked of past and future hunts, of Rugay and Ilagin's dogs, while Natasha sat upright on the sofa and listened with sparkling eyes.
  • If you'll allow me to leave my Natasha in your hands for a quarter of an hour, Princess, I'll drive round to see Anna Semenovna, it's quite near in the Dogs' Square, and then I'll come back for her.
  • Natasha looked from one to the other as a hunted and wounded animal looks at the approaching dogs and sportsmen.
  • Do they think we're dogs? voices in the crowd were heard saying more and more frequently.
  • It's been a part of me since the dogs of law released from their barred kennel.
  • Snarling at each like dogs on a soup bone is just as disconcerting as keeping secrets.
  • There were a half dozen messages from both Julie and Howie from California but in view of our frenzied day, decided to let them simmer until after a much relished glass or two of wine and Molly's carefully grilled hot dogs and cheese bread.
  • She pocketed her list and trailed him to the area just beyond the patio, where the scent of hot dogs and s'mores greeted her long before she reached the small group circled around a bonfire.
  • After eleven pairs of shoes, two stray dogs who gave up on me, and a girl friend who skipped off with a coal truck driver in West Virginia, here I am.
  • Horses stomped, dogs barked, and children scurried everywhere.
  • They don't have dogs, and it only has six legs!
  • The dogs scattered, leaving Brutus wounded on the ground.
  • If she ran to the house to call for help, the dogs would attack Brutus again.
  • The dogs are back.
  • He did save me from the wild dogs, you know.
  • I haven't seen any strange dogs in a long time.
  • I haven't seen any sign of strange dogs around.
  • Pigs and goats, however, with cattle, horses, asses and dogs, have been introduced, have multiplied, and in considerable numbers run wild.
  • You could say, "When I eat corn dogs, I get a headache" and start studying that.
  • My first thought was, one of the dogs has hurt Mildred; but Helen's beaming face set my fears at rest.
  • Police dogs were seen combing the property.
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