Close beside her lay Boris, Ross's Great Dane, a dignified animal of unusual beauty.

To see the dignified animal make such an exhibition of himself over a trifle of this sort was too ludicrous.

Sometimes he was and again he was not, for this was as that sagacious and dignified animal himself thought best.

It was a pink and pensive cow with a slight clerical expression, a very dignified animal, caught in the act of sedately skipping the rope.