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From the one about the hound-dog ways of the womanizing Chico Marx, we learn that his name was not pronounced Chee-ko, but Chick-o.
Shining Past, Darker Present Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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Kerberos whimpered and laid down in the gravel, heads snaking and hound-dog ears flopping.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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Kerberos whimpered and laid down in the gravel, heads snaking and hound-dog ears flopping.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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Ovid, once he has his muse and is back in Rome, becomes a hound-dog again, powerless to resist the jewel-bright charms of Roman women, flirting and lying for no really good reason.
the dreaming body that he daily plundered « paper fruit 2008
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Ovid, once he has his muse and is back in Rome, becomes a hound-dog again, powerless to resist the jewel-bright charms of Roman women, flirting and lying for no really good reason.
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Williamson was a low-key but straight-talking man with a stubbly shaved head and hound-dog eyes.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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Kerberos whimpered and laid down in the gravel, heads snaking and hound-dog ears flopping.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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Leaving the guy who looks like a hound-dog for the guy who straps his 'most beloved' dog to the roof of his car kinda displays a bit of a cruel streak doesn't it.
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But inside the practice gym on the Fresno State campus, Jerry Tarkanian -- with his familiar bald pate, sad hound-dog eyes and the look of someone urgently in need of a teething towel-seems right at home.
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Izzy's cantankerousness and "hound-dog tenacity" -- in the words of his biographer -- would make even the most stubborn blogger blush.
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