Hating myself for wanting to puppy-dog please you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lily] Reference

I don't ahve any pets, but I really want a big puppy-dog!.    From Wordnik.com.  [carinosa34 Diary Entry] Reference

Sometimes they dig too deep and snag the puppy-dog tails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Biden on Judge Sotomayor: She’ll keep the streets clean - Erick’s blog - RedState] Reference

He and Alicia were beyond that puppy-dog first-love stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clean Kill]

His puppy-dog eyes belied the fact that he was built like a lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honeymoon]

Between my legs he was avid, puppy-dog eager, but not yet trained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firm Doings] Reference

Peter finally raised his puppy-dog brown eyes to her and shrugged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Season of the Machete]

The puppy-dog eyes still held their power, even under the bruises.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Society]

Of course the puppy-dog philosophy students have lapped up this idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils of pop philosophy] Reference

And now I feel like they're staring at me with pitiful puppy-dog eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilty.] Reference

Even the counter-comment above is downright puppy-dog friendly, really.    From Wordnik.com.  [finger cymbals too loud? problem solved: crocheted zill covers « raincoaster] Reference

He put his chin in his fist and tried his soulful, puppy-dog gaze on me.    From Wordnik.com.  [I is for Innocent]

His blond hair was in continual disarray, giving him a lost, puppy-dog look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

They looked at David on the screen and stared into his soft, puppy-dog eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Famous]

She loved him in a puppy-dog way, he loved her because he needed a new wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

His puppy-dog eyes reminded me of the women in the newsroom who gazed at Rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bad Day’s Work] Reference

Ah, look at those sad puppy-dog eyes, staring up at you from beneath the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [26 « September « 2008 « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference

Rayne makes puppy-dog eyes at the monks and they offer her shelter for the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Post:] Reference

You might've thought he was just bein 'puppy-dog friendly, but you'd 've been wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

It was a straight-up question, no puppy-dog little-boy pleading in his big brown eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primal Instincts] Reference

There was a seventh kid who wasn't giving her puppy-dog eyes; he was just watching her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jinx High]

“If you loved me, you would believe me,” Johnny wheedled with a wounded puppy-dog look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Risk No Secrets] Reference

While they needled each other, Vern Schneider sat watching Emaline with those puppy-dog eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Again No More] Reference

And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it.    From Wordnik.com.  [xf0r3verx Diary Entry] Reference

Trying very hard not to look at Mom with puppy-dog eyes, I asked, “How much does it cost?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted] Reference

He knew only that the puppy-dog, given him only the previous morning, was safe back in his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER VI] Reference

And crowning puppy-dog cute singer-songwriter Allen as its next champion hardly accomplishes that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Deggans: American Idol May Need an Adam Lambert Win More than Lambert Does] Reference

I absolutely hate his phony expression: big, puppy-dog eyes combined with that Lieberman-like pout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » McCain Covers Up For Bush’s Nuclear Failures] Reference

She's allergic to her puppy-dog eagerness, but discovers the talented grad student has the raw makings of a true writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Sondheim on Sondheim, Collected Stories] Reference

By and by, another day, Epaminondas went to see his Auntie again, and this time she gave him a little new puppy-dog to take home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference

By and by, another day, Epaminondas went to see his Auntie again, and; this time she gave him a little new puppy-dog to take home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference

Well, a puppy-dog, and you'reonthe earth and I'monthe earth, but really we're just floating in space because the earth is, and we're on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Star] Reference