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Definition of Greyhounds
1. greyhound [n] - See also: greyhound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greyhounds
Literary usage of Greyhounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Big Game of North America: Its Habits, Habitats, Haunts, and by George O. Shields (1890)
"As may readily be imagined, none but the best-bred greyhounds, ... I have spent
many years in breeding and training greyhounds, and flatter myself that I ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"The startled quarry bounds amain, As fast the gallant greyhounds strain; ...
Remember'st thou my greyhounds true ? O'er holt or hill there never flew, ..."
3. Lares and Penates, Or, Cilicia and Its Governors: Being a Short Historical by William Burckhardt Barker (1853)
"One of these greyhounds had had the mange, but was considered cured by a preparation
of gunpowder and oil; and as he was quite a champion, and celebrated ..."
4. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Gu. two greyhounds counter-salient arg. collared of the field, ... Vert, two
greyhounds courant in pale arg., on a chief engrailed of the last a boar's head ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"A kind of noose, in which greyhounds were held, before they were suffered to
start for their game. I sec you stand like greyhounds in the ..."
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