wild-dog

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But the wild-dog, three feet from his lair under the trade-boxes, was not unobservant.

CHAPTER IV 2010
It did not enter his head to query how his conduct affected the wild-dog, though, in truth, he led that individual a wretched existence.

CHAPTER IV 2010
While waiting for Skipper to return, Jerry chanced to see the wild-dog brazenly lying on deck a dozen feet from his lair in the trade-boxes.

CHAPTER VIII 2010
Even they brought wild-dog and set him upon Jerry.

CHAPTER XVI 2010
Also, it gave him a delightful consciousness of his own mastery, for the wild-dog always fled from him.

CHAPTER IV 2010
After all, even in an inferior like the wild-dog, he did not consciously press an advantage very far — never extremely far.

CHAPTER VIII 2010
These are essential traits of the wolf and the wild-dog when they have become domesticated, and these traits White Fang possessed in unusual measure.

The Covenant 2010
In his stalking and rushing of the wild-dog, he had been more sound and fury than an overbearing bully.

CHAPTER VIII 2010
Success seemed assured, for the wild-dog, with closed eyes, was apparently asleep.

CHAPTER VIII 2010
When Jerry snarled and growled, wild-dog snarled and growled back and strutted and bullied around him, him to persuasion of the blacks could induce but no sink his teeth into Jerry.

CHAPTER XVI 2010