- a variation of greyhound.
grayhound
Americannoun
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Our next friend was an exquisite shepherd’s dog; fleet, thin-flanked, dainty, and handsome as a small grayhound, with all the grace of silky waving black and tan hair.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
The big freighter leaped ahead like a grayhound, soon reaching a speed that even the swift battle spheres could not equal, thanks to the engineering genius of the half-insane Agar.
From The Space Rover by Edwin K. Sloat
Lady Luce was lounging in a chair, playing with a grayhound, and she looked up at him with a smile, then lowered her eyes, as if she were afraid their welcome should be too marked.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice
He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent; a grayhound with glasses tilted forward on his thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
"Old Bran," and his beautiful son "Lucifer," were fine specimens of grayhound and deerhound, and as good as gold.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
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