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After a brief exposure, she declared that borzois were “cowardly, stupid, disloyal, and full of self-pity” and switched to Yorkshire terriers.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

He is coming with his whole hunting train�a set of rakehells mostly from the cavalry �and his best hounds and horses, his finest borzois with their terrific jaws for slaying the hounded wolf.

From Time Magazine Archive

Living in a spacious house close by the much smaller one in which they spent their runaway honeymoon, the Ludwigs now share it with their two children, many borzois and greyhounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Look out!" he shouted, in a voice plainly showing that he had long fretted to utter that word, and letting the borzois slip he galloped toward the count.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He took a dozen bounds, not very quickly, letting the borzois gain on him, and, finally having chosen his direction and realized his danger, laid back his ears and rushed off headlong.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf