Meanings of sleuthhound in English

Baxter the watchdog must retire, to be succeeded by Baxter the sleuthhound.

The instinct of the sleuthhound is beginning to stir in me.

Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound.

The detective paid no attention, his face had hardened, he seemed every inch the remorseless sleuthhound of the law.

Its speciality-or ,ifyou like, its oddity-wasthis merciless mercy; the unrelenting sleuthhound who seeks to save and not slay.

She was working like a regular sleuthhound, now, too, slowly, picking up the trail and following it, baying as she went.

Ralph said doggedly, though a Scot, correct for once in his grammar; and he pursued a recalcitrant particle through the dictionary like a sleuthhound.

Till the police come we are only a pack of very amateur sleuthhounds.

At that time bloodhounds, or sleuthhounds, were used for the purpose of pursuing great criminals.

You have tracked me like sleuthhounds.

"You'll turn me into a regular sleuthhound," he laughed.

They are as sleuthhounds in the infallibility of their scent, and in their sayings no less sententious than the rubrics of the law.

"The instinct of the sleuthhound," he said to himself, "is all very well, but why on earth haven't I told Furley about the car?"