The puppylike whimpering increased in intensity, the cries closer to human. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
Outside Otis's trailer, Mr. President was yowling with puppylike enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Starfighter]
This puppylike sense of wonder is a bit silly to behold but it's not ever going to go away. From Wordnik.com. [kinaesthesia Diary Entry] Reference
Digby saw his opportunity to establish his puppylike loyalty to the road lobby beyond doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Gridlock]
Xalthan looked at her with that puppylike sense of hope, a hope she could do nothing to gratify. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinslayer Wars]
Monica felt sick to her stomach over how Deke's expression turned puppylike with bemused adoration. From Wordnik.com. [Jinx High]
One thing in common among all pacifying behaviors is that they contain elements of puppylike behavior. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
Skan leapt his prone body and skidded to a halt on the slick marble, Kechara romping puppylike behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Gryphon]
I've always thought w is the most puppylike letter of the alphabet, the one I would keep as a pet if I could. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pies] Reference
Muzzle-nudge: Lowered body position is often accompanied by a puppylike behavior that we can call the muzzle-nudge. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
Important signals may be overlooked by the more puppylike animal, whose dialect does not focus strongly on social dominance. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
However, human beings have bred dogs to keep many puppylike characteristics, and with this comes the lifelong desire to play. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
Often when I arrive I find her pacing back and forth in her cage, and she makes little puppylike yips and squeals when she sees me. From Wordnik.com. [Pies & Prejudice] Reference
Propelled by Maya's puppylike sounds, Bhima gets up with a grunt from the mattress and makes her way to where her granddaughter lies asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar] Reference
More importantly, this Druid had had a gift tossed right in his lap " Gawaine's almost puppylike eager - ness for Truth " and he hadn't gathered it up. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]
In effect, when adults use these “puppy words,” they are making themselves very small and puppylike in the presence of a dominant or threatening animal. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
Early man, and perhaps to a greater degree early woman, would probably have thought that the more puppylike of their newly domesticated dogs were cute, just as we do. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
You want to ask me how she reacted, you want to go all puppylike and curl up at my feet, you want to be both humble and smug at the same time and to have it considered perfectly reasonable. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Despite their youthful, almost puppylike exuberance, the rappers speak militantly and with a unified blitz of talking points when conversation turns to how to achieve Palestinian independence. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes amid rubble: Palestinian refugee rappers' voices spill out across borders] Reference
One of the differences between domestic dogs and wild canines is that we have preserved a number of puppylike characteristics in domestic adult dogs, which are lost when the wild canine becomes an adult. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
To many people, the look of long floppy ears is quite appealing, perhaps because it is reminiscent of the effects of long hair framing a human face, or perhaps simply because it retains something of the puppylike look in the adult. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
From most puppylike to most adult wolflike, their list was: 1. Cavalier King Charles spaniel 2. Norfolk terrier 3. French bulldog 4. Shetland sheepdog 5. Cocker spaniel 6. Munsterlander 7. Labrador retriever 8. German shepherd 9. Golden retriever. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak Dog] Reference
By my "proper" here-&-now '(where I would be if I hadn't hearkened to the wild geese-home on Tertius) - by that here-&-now these eager, puppylike boys are long dead and the worms have eaten them; this war and its terrible aftermath are ancient history, no worry of mine. \par. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
There was something floppy and puppylike about him — a certain heavy cloddishness in his feet — that suggested he would one day be a very large and imposing dog; but Frank would wait forever for the poise that must attend imposing size in order for the animal to be imposing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
Higuri and Wada have a great time parodying all the clichés of shoujo and boys-love manga: The guys are constantly striking poses with their guns and winding up in compromising situations together, and the girl is so adorable and puppylike that by volume 2 Higuri has started drawing her with ears and a tail. From Wordnik.com. [What are you reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
But Mizell does convey with almost puppylike enthusiasm Gary's desperate love for his wife and affection and respect for Rufus. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
While Lancelot Encore acted positively puppylike on TODAY, squirming and licking the faces of his new owners as they talked, Roker asked the Ottos whether it seemed "a little kooky" to spend six figures to create a new dog in their old dog's image. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
Though Masson says research and archeology are scant in answering that question, he delves into many issues - why dogs bite, neoteny (which refers to the puppylike behavior dogs keep into adulthood), the qualities of friendliness, affection and playfulness they share with us, their abilities to smile and apologize. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
More importantly, this Druid had had a gift tossed right in his lap"Gawaine's almost puppylike eagerness for Truth-and he hadn't gathered it up. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]
But then I remembered my own puppylike eagerness on Christmas morning and my crushed disappointment over getting the doll instead of the book, or receiving the wrong-color sweater, and realized that it shouldn’t be about what was under the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Knowing Jesse] Reference
One of the men, in his fifties, with the hulking shoulders, barrel neck, and shaggy head of a minotaur, had placed his foot on the wrist of the other man—or boy, really; he couldn’t have been older than seventeen—who was flailing in the dust with all three of his remaining limbs, and making an almost inaudible, puppylike whimper. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
Nodding like a bobble-head doll, the PM rewarded him thrice with puppylike adoration: "Barack is absolutely right. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
A puppylike air of contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
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