Use hounds in a sentence
Sentences ending with hounds
- There it all was: not a word about radical morality or immorality; but the tradition of Family, the Commons, Master of the Hounds! [11]
- The little elf was urging it on, as the huntsmen cheer the hounds. [10]
- Give 'the woman' up for the honour of the Master of the Hounds? [11]
- Some had slept under the open sky beside the dog kennel hastily erected for Daphne's pack of hounds. [10]
- But perhaps she thought that human pity dwelt there, and would be more merciful than the teeth of the hounds. [4]
- She went in the direction of the hounds. [4]
- She knew that she had no taste for it, that it was no part of her wifely duty, and she did what suited her better--followed the hounds. [11]
- Gaston had never ridden to hounds. [11]
- No doubt the policy of the hounds was useful, and it might save his own goose, but it was, in a sense, un-English to hunt the wild man with hounds. [11]
- He did not now run with the feeling of doubt and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. [2]
Short sentences using hounds
- The hounds were drawing near. [4]
Sentences containing hounds two or more times
- The hounds had scarcely been loosed before Nicholas heard one he knew, Voltorn, giving tongue at intervals; other hounds joined in, now pausing and now again giving tongue. [2]
- Without the hounds it may be a two years' war--with the hounds it can't go beyond a week or so. [11]
- It would prevent him riding to hounds again, and at his suggestion, backed by Lord Dunfolly and Lord Dargan, Gaston became Master of the Hounds. [11]
- The hounds have come from Cuba and in the charge of ten men--ten men with sixty hounds. [11]
More example sentences with the word hounds in them
- He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
- Nicholas dismounted, and with Natasha and Petya, who had ridden up, stopped near the hounds, waiting to see how the matter would end. [2]
- The count's hounds will track us, if they follow. [10]
- He saw the whips in their red caps galloping along the edge of the ravine, he even saw the hounds, and was expecting a fox to show itself at any moment on the ryefield opposite. [2]
- It was only when Mr. Calhoun came with his hounds that anything decisive was done. [11]
- Since the doctor was too much the macaroni to ride to hounds and to shoot ducks, time began to hang exceeding heavy on his hands. [9]
- The housekeeper's face was seen at Aunt Jacoba's window, and so soon as tidings were brought of who it as that came, the dog-keeper's whips hastily silenced the hounds and drove them into the kennel. [10]
- His great hall was commonly strewn with marrow-bones, and full of hawks' perches, of hounds, spaniels, and terriers. [4]
- Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel. [9]
- One of these told me that the Celebrity had been to a Lincolnshire estate where he had created a decided sensation by his riding to hounds, something the Celebrity had never been known to do. [9]
- The chase led to the right cover, and how well the hounds had done, how stoutly Emir, his swift hunter, had followed. [10]
- Here horses' hoofs, there large and small feet had pressed the snow, yonder hounds had run, and--Great Heaven!--here, by the tree-stump, red blood stained the glimmering white ground. [10]
- We went through the yard so as to see what the hounds would do. [5]
- Presently Michael Clones, the servant of Dyck Calhoun, came also to say that the Vincent was the ship bringing Calhoun's hounds from Cuba, and asking permit for delivery. [11]
- The fording of the river threw the hounds off for a time. [4]
- In front of the portico was a saddled horse, craning his long neck at two panting hounds stretched on the ground. [9]
- The master of the hounds, with his men and the dogs, will return home on the transports this very day. [10]
- The master of the hounds, the equerries, and huntsmen hastened to obey his orders. [10]
- The baying of the hounds was nearer. [4]
- Then he set the hounds to work and the rebellion in that district was soon over. [11]
- All that day the hounds remained at home. [2]
- The baying of the hounds grew fainter behind her. [4]
- The hounds had struck her trail where she turned, and the fawn was safe. [4]
- It was a stroke of genius, the hounds, your honour! [11]
- I was a stout little fellow enough, and before I was twelve I had learned to follow to hounds my grandfather's guests on my pony; and Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Carvel when they shot on the duck points. [9]
- If the little spotted fawn can think, it must seem to her a queer world in which the advent of innocence is hailed by the baying of fierce hounds and the "ping" of the rifle. [4]
- Imagine a little sloop in the wash of the seas and the buccaneers piling down on him, and no chance of escape, and then a great British battleship appearing, and the situation saved--that was how we were placed here till the hounds arrived. [11]
- Calhoun saved the situation there; and when his hounds arrive at Salem he will range over the whole country. [11]
- Rostov, having finally settled with "Uncle" where they should set on the hounds, and having shown Natasha where she was to stand--a spot where nothing could possibly run out--went round above the ravine. [2]
- The hounds will settle this whole wretched business. [11]
- The hounds are sent into the forest to rouse the deer, and drive him from his cover. [4]
- When I wasn't riding to the hounds myself I could see them crossing to or from the meet. [11]
- She had not ridden to hounds for nothing. [11]
- At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees. [2]
- It's a pretty piece of business to have everything thrown out because a parcel of lazy hounds want a chance to lay off and get drunk. [8]
- The hazel bushes parted behind the hounds and Daniel's chestnut horse appeared, dark with sweat. [2]
- It took the parish of St. Saviour's so long to make up its mind who stole Jean Jacques' six thousand dollars, that when the hounds got the scent at last the quarry had reached the water--in other words, Sebastian Dolores had achieved the St. Lawrence. [11]
- The hounds are outside the harbour now, Michael. [11]
- Then, unexpectedly, as often happens, the sound of the hunt suddenly approached, as if the hounds in full cry and Daniel ulyulyuing were just in front of them. [2]
- Who is Master of the Hounds, Lugley? [11]
- A few hounds of choice breed ran behind it. [10]
- He kept hawks of all kinds, and all sorts of hounds that ran buck, fox, hare, otter, and badger. [4]
- I see it now--the mottled plump of hounds upon the scent, the bright sun showing up the scarlet coats of the whips gloriously, the long stride of the hunters, ears back and quarters down! [11]
- There could be no fear with the hounds loose to do the hunting. [11]
- But it was my grandfather who built the great stables and the kennels where he kept his beagles and his fleeter hounds. [9]
- Mr. Cupples assures me that this is usual with Scotch deer- hounds. [1]
- Nicholas sent the man to call Natasha and Petya to him, and rode at a footpace to the place where the whips were getting the hounds together. [2]
- The whippers-in no longer set on the hounds, but changed to the cry of ulyulyu, and above the others rose Daniel's voice, now a deep bass, now piercingly shrill. [2]
- All in the Lodge who had legs came running together; all the hounds barked and howled as though the Wild Huntsman were riding by, and mingling therewith lo! [10]
- Well, Lugley, I like the hounds better than I like you. [11]
- The man was like some mad buck harried by the hounds, and he gnashed his teeth behind his shut lips. [11]
- The pack on leash rushed downhill in full cry after the hare, and from all sides the borzois that were not on leash darted after the hounds and the hare. [2]
- The hounds had killed two of the cubs and the borzois three. [2]
- The hounds were joined into one pack, and "Uncle" and Nicholas rode on side by side. [2]
- Having finished his inquiries and extorted from Daniel an opinion that the hounds were fit (Daniel himself wished to go hunting), Nicholas ordered the horses to be saddled. [2]
- He gathered every incident of the surroundings, and talked to the servants freely, softly, and easily, yet with a superiority, which suddenly was imposed in the case of the huntsman at the kennels--for the Whipshire hounds were here. [11]
- Jake Wheeler, although in many respects a fool, was one of the most efficient pack of political hounds that the state has ever known. [9]
- Beg pardon, sir, I--" "Attend to your hounds there, Lugley. [11]
- So sure am I upon this point, that I have sent to Cuba for sixty hounds, with which, when the trouble comes--and it is not far off--we shall be able to hunt the Maroons with the only weapon they really fear--the dog's sharp tooth. [11]
- Percy kept his hounds, and many a run we had together' in the sparkling days that followed the busy summer, when the crops were safe in the bottoms; or a quiet pipe and bottle in his bachelor's hall, after a soaking on the duck points. [9]
- One of the hounds which attacked him he had flung against a rock, and the other he pelted with stones till it fled howling into a thicket. [10]
- Montfort horses and hounds crowd our good steeds out of their stalls. [10]
- Two of these hopeless fugitives were still fortunate enough to get a start of the hounds of retaliation and revenge. [11]
- The doctor paid his compliment to the captain of the Thunderer, and to his Lordship; hoped that he would see them at the meet on the morrow, tho' his gout forbade his riding to hounds. [9]
- But, coming toward him, he saw hounds and a huntsman galloping almost straight at the wolf. [2]
- Pierre looked at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her enemies, he tried to continue reading. [2]
- Thereafter he led her horse to the brook, which floweth through the woods down to the meadow-land, and bid her ride along in the water so far as she might, to put the hounds off the scent. [10]
- He realized that he had lost reputation, which had scarcely been regained by his consent to the use of the hounds and giving Dyck Calhoun a free hand, as temporary head of the militia. [11]
- The huntsman stood halfway up the knoll holding up his whip and the gentlefolk rode up to him at a footpace; the hounds that were far off on the horizon turned away from the hare, and the whips, but not the gentlefolk, also moved away. [2]
- The fame I had won, such as it was, seemed to attend me,--not going before me in the shape of a woman with a trumpet, but rather following me like one of Actaeon's hounds, his throat open, ready to pull me down and tear me. [6]
- His grandfather and great-grandfather had been Master of the Hounds before him. [11]
- What they cannot find with their attendants, squires, beaters and hounds, is not hidden in the forest. [10]
- They were taking fifty-four hounds, with six hunt attendants and whippers-in. [2]
- Some hundred paces farther along the edge of the wood stood Mitka, the count's other groom, a daring horseman and keen rider to hounds. [2]
- I hold that every gentleman should ride to hounds. [9]
- He realized that Dyck's premonition of an outbreak and sending for the hounds was a stroke of genius. [11]
- She was going due east, when (judging by the sound, the hounds were not far off, though they were still hidden by a ridge) she turned short away to the north, and kept on at a good pace. [4]
- Do you go down to Kingston and--" He detailed what Michael was to do on landing the hounds, and laid out plans for the immediate future. [11]
- But he gathered courage, and said: "The governor has no hounds. [11]
- No, Dyck Calhoun could not be charged with cowardice, and his policy of the hounds might save the island and the administration in the end. [11]
- One thing is clear to me--only by hounds can these people be defeated. [11]
- Lord Holland had been forced to pay out a hundred thousand pounds for Charles, and even this enormous sum did not entirely free Mr. Fox from the discounters and the hounds. [9]
- For I conceived a notion, enlarged by Mr. Fox, that I had more than once fallen into the tender clutches of the hounds. [9]
- His son was a monster, his subjects were rebels or cringing hounds. [10]
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