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  • As for me, my timber and stuffs must come down stream, and are too good for the nixen under Rhine, or think you I would acknowledge him with a toll, the hell-dog?

    Farina George Meredith 1868

  • As for me, my timber and stuffs must come down stream, and are too good for the nixen under Rhine, or think you I would acknowledge him with a toll, the hell-dog?

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • As for me, my timber and stuffs must come down stream, and are too good for the nixen under Rhine, or think you I would acknowledge him with a toll, the hell-dog?

    Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The big snake in front was getting closer and closer, with his head drawed back to strike; then a hell-dog run up nearly alongside, panting and blowing with the slobber running out of his mouth, and a lot of devils hanging on to him, who was a-cussing me and screeching.

    The Great Salt Lake Trail Henry Inman 1868

  • The horror was unspeakable from the hell-dog Nena or Nana; how if this fiend should get hold of FLORENCE or her baby (now within seventeen days of completing her half year)?

    The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • If you had been like your father or your great grandfather, we should not have ventured to come in contact with you; but you are only the heir of the pit of darkness, you dirty hell-dog!

    The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702

  • "Oh! oh! away with this hell-dog," said she; whilst every one cried, "away with this new tormentor!

    The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702

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