Ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India.
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Examples for "pye-dog "
Examples for "pye-dog "
1 They had already changed themselves into dogs: village dogs, pye - dogs , perhaps dingos.
2 Bébé learned to love even the pye-dogs which congregated under the huts, and would let him touch them.
3 Uncle Ferrers' Sikhs and Pathan soldiers called him that, because whenever he fought with the pye-dogs or other dogs, Boh always won.
1 The cook would now be plucking a chicken behind the resthouse and the pie-dogs would be gathering in the hope of scraps...
1 Suddenly in the distance a pariah dog gave a prolonged melancholy howl.
2 There did not seem to be so much as a pariah dog outside.
3 But the disease crept along with us like a pariah dog .
4 And Umballa has the heart of a flea-bitten pariah dog .
5 Better death on the pyre than a future like that of a pariah dog .
6 The shivering pariah dog slunk away, fearing a blow.
7 The time when we have to get into this melee or become the pariah dog among countries.
8 By-the-bye, dog here probably means pariah dog .
9 By-the-by, dog here probably means pariah dog .
10 Like a pariah dog , you'll be out.'
11 In the evening he returned, the man still following him like a pariah dog , to find the situation unaltered.
12 As for the vacant bed - any pariah dog of any other country would have been offended to be offered such filthy accommodation.
13 My rifle was still unloaded when a spotted doe bounded out of the jungle, followed by a white pariah dog in full chase.
14 The ayah shrank into herself and showed the whites of her eyes and grinned, as a pariah dog might show its teeth-afraid, but scenting carrion.
15 Of the pariah dogs I dare not trust myself to say much.
16 A roar came from the populace; an elephant trumpeted; the pariah dogs barked.
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