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Definition of Bloodhounds
1. bloodhound [n] - See also: bloodhound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodhounds
Literary usage of Bloodhounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Evidence obtained by trailing with bloodhounds.—The well-known instinct possessed
by certain breeds of dogs, commonly known as bloodhounds, which enables ..."
2. The Soldier's Story: Of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and by Warren Lee Goss (2001)
"bloodhounds on the Path. — The Scent lost in the Water — Various Adventures. ...
bloodhounds again. — Temporary Escape. — Fight with the bloodhounds. ..."
3. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1898)
"... succeeded in reaching the woods ; after almost unendurable suffering from
fatigue and hunger, and after escaping the bloodhounds by crossing A large ..."
4. History of Central America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"A pack of bloodhounds completed the company. The men were armed with crossbows,
swords, arquebuses and targets, and provisions for the expedition were ..."
5. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... some Porto Rico bloodhounds, and two very expert huntsmen, was in the constant
habit of mounting his horse at day-break, and, thus accompanied, ..."
6. Beyond the Lines, Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie by John James Geer, Alexander Clark (1863)
"Just where we entered the swamp, the water was very shallow, and, consequently,
afforded us but poor protection from the bloodhounds, whose peculiar cries ..."
7. A Brief on the Modes of Proving the Facts: Most Frequently in Issue Or by Austin Abbott, Allan J. Carter (1922)
"The authorities are in conflict as to the competency of evidence as to the trailing
of persons or animals by bloodhounds.1 The more recent cases which have ..."
8. Days of My Years by Melville Leslie Macnaghten (1914)
"DURING the last twenty-five years much nonsense has been talked and more nonsense
has been written about the employment of bloodhounds by Metropolitan ..."
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