A large, coffee-colored pug-dog was lying before the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A woman must love something -- even if she hasn't anything better to love than a pug-dog or herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

The Maharani presented Lady Roberts with a beautiful little Chinese pug-dog, and the Maharaja gave me a gold-mounted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Turning westward his old asthmatic pug-dog countenance, he gazed at you with big, lustreless eyes, in a way that said, “You were saying?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Poets] Reference

Dermot was the first person we saw, disporting himself with a pug-dog at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Young Alcides] Reference

He is a pug-dog, of rather intelligent appearance, in good condition, and with very short legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference

There was nearly always a pug-dog looking out from her well or lying in the sunshine on her foredeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coot Club]

She knew Alvina had to pound until she received the cue that Mr. May was fitted in his pug-dog "Costoom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

General, unless they have been first dandled, like a little French pug-dog, in the lap of a lady of quality?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference

But there was a little bluff master, a clergyman, with shaggy rippled red-brown hair and a face like a pug-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where No Fear Was] Reference

Danish hound, which is known to the Parisian, down to the steward's little pug-dog, which had mixed with this company.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. T. a Danish Romance] Reference

An indigestion, caused by sweet biscuits, had taken from Madame de la Grenouillère a pug-dog of the most brilliant promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Cat] Reference

It was a large, uncovered berlin, and in it sat a woman of about sixty years of age, accompanied by her attendants and her pug-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Brohl and Company] Reference

Perhaps, there is something a little ridiculous in this feeling, like the love of an old maid for a parrot, a pug-dog, or a tom-cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy] Reference

And then Polly came rustling up the stairs in a silver-gray silk dress and a noticeable hat, and with a pug-dog tucked under her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian A Story] Reference

Turning westward his old asthmatic pug-dog countenance, he gazed at you with big, lustreless eyes, in a way that said, "You were saying?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Illusions] Reference

She kept her eyes fixed on the pug-dog, and with good reason; as far as appearances went, he was indisputably the nobler animal of the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Lady's Money] Reference

I paused to inspect the china pug-dog which squatted on the pink-tiled hearth and which glared inanely at the huge brass coal-box just opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

A little pug-dog, which seemed to have failed in swallowing some big dog's tongue, jumped up barking from the sheep-skin mat, where he lay before the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilfrid Cumbermede] Reference

It was during this calm that he had him overboard in this way, when a confounded shark rose from under the counter, and took in the pug-dog at one mouthful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Simple] Reference

The question in the first instance was whether Annie had chipped off the nose of the china pug-dog on the mantelpiece, a relic of the old house at Willstead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Miss Symons] Reference

The room was not a particularly large one; but it contained exactly three hundred and seven articles of bijouterie, not estimating the china pug-dog upon the hearth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

The pug-dog sat up, as a precautionary measure, as I passed; but, as I took no notice of the treasure he was guarding, he let me go by without even one remonstrant bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference

I found Mr. Waterbrook to be a middle-aged gentleman, with a short throat, and a good deal of shirt collar, who only wanted a black nose to be the portrait of a pug-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [XXV. Good and Bad Angels] Reference

I found Mr. Waterbrook to be a middle-aged gentleman, with a short throat, and a good deal of shirt-collar, who only wanted a black nose to be the portrait of a pug-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield]

What if, struggle as she will, she can become nothing in the future but the pet pug-dog of the race, lying on its sofa, or the Italian greyhound, shivering in its silken coat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman and Labour] Reference

I had been seated only a few minutes when a little pug-dog of hers looked up in the direction of my knees and down towards my feet, growling and howling in a most strange manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter] Reference

A small pug-dog "couchant" before it, resolved to guard the treasure even at the sacrifice of life -- and a front-door standing invitingly half-open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference

A famous shot -- a capital horseman -- knew the ways of all animals, fishes, and birds; I verily believe he could have coaxed a pug-dog to point, and an owl to sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

Hazlitt speaks of Moore as a "pug-dog barking from the lap of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference

The pug-dog suddenly opened his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Lady's Money] Reference

The small-voiced pug-dog welcomes in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836)] Reference

An old pug-dog came out of the gate to meet them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudin] Reference

A sort of mixture between the pug-dog and a Chinese pig), was mounted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3] Reference