Foxhound Sentence Examples

The modern English foxhound has been bred from the old northern and southern hounds, and is more lightly built, having been bred for speed and endurance.

At the present day, the woodlands are neither so large nor so numerous as they formerly were, while there are many more gorse covers; therefore, instead of hunting the drag up to it, a much quicker way of getting to work is to find a fox in his kennel; and, the hour of the meeting being later, the fox is not likely to be gorged with food, and so unable to take care of himself at the pace at which the modern foxhound travels.

It is not possible to keep a foxhound in the home, therefore the breed as a whole would be destroyed.

In fact, the Hunt's hounds are getting an injection of ' imperial blood ' thanks to an imported English foxhound.

Its objects to promote the breeding of the welsh foxhound in order that the distinctive national breed may be maintained on established lines.

They tell me that if the fox would remain in the bosom of the frozen earth he would be safe, or if he would run in a straight line away no foxhound could overtake him; but, having left his pursuers far behind, he stops to rest and listen till they come up, and when he runs he circles round to his old haunts, where the hunters await him.

Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne--he pronounced it Bugine--which my informant used to borrow.