dogman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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While Mrs. Carnaby spoke so kindly, the dogman took his fingers off their numeral scale, and looked at her.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
However, he would rather die than plead his time of life in bar, and his faith in the dogman was unlimited.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
There is no such man, at the present time of day, to carry out strict orders, as the dogman was, and the chance of there being such a one again diminishes by very rapid process.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
A true dogman knows his dog's bark,—and its every shade of meaning,—as well as though it were human speech.
From Further Adventures of Lad by Terhune, Albert Payson
He was perfectly indifferent to all danger from bush-rangers, burglars, pickpockets, or cattle stealers; he did not even own a dog, so the dogman never asked him for the dog tax.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.
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