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Synonyms for bloodhound
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bluhd-hound |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈblʌdˌhaʊnd |
Top 10 synonyms for bloodhound
Définition of bloodhound
Origin :- also blood-hound, type of large dog used in hunting, c.1300, from blood (n.) + hound (n.).
- As in private eye : noun private detective
- As in sleuth : noun detective
- As in detective : noun investigator of crime
- Upon it, in great white letters, was painted the name, "The Bloodhound."
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- Old Jeff Hooker had a bloodhound, and Tom was going to borrow him.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- The bloodhound was with him; he had sent home for it since the attempted riot.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- In perceiving these things I have the scent of a bloodhound.
- Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant
- Any officer, coming upon that trail, would run it up like a bloodhound.
- Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- Old Guadaloupe crisscrossed the ground like a bloodhound as he read what was written there.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- He was a bloodhound, fastening his victims with the jaws of death.
- Extract from : « Beasts, Men and Gods » by Ferdinand Ossendowski
- My uncle may be full of regret and sorrow; but his son will follow me like a bloodhound.
- Extract from : « Seek and Find » by Oliver Optic
- As Running Rabbit had said, on the trail of a cattle-thief he was as relentless as a bloodhound.
- Extract from : « 'Me-Smith' » by Caroline Lockhart
- For all his easy cynicism, he had the reputation of being a bloodhound on the trail.
- Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
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