Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let scholarment and all Malthusiasts go hang. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
This is why I believe there is quite a bit of difference between affenpinscher training and bandog training. From Wordnik.com. [Cloned Dog and Afghan Intelligence] Reference
The camp and all Christendom shall see that I know how to right myself, and whether I yield ground one inch to the English bandog. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
But all the rest heretofore remembered in this chapter there is none more ugly and odious in sight, cruel and fierce in deed, nor untractable in hand, than that which is begotten between the bear and the bandog. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
A Man were better twenty times be a bandog & barke. From Wordnik.com. [Gammer Gurton's Needle] Reference
Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let scholarment and all. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The bandog in the meddes doth eipresse The mastiff curre bred in Ypswich towne. From Wordnik.com. [The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces] Reference
'They let loose instinct as an indiscriminatory bandog to guard them against (his) conclusions'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
But now I put thee out of door and set the bandog to guard it; thou art locked out though the door be wide open, seest thou?. From Wordnik.com. [Days of the Discoverers] Reference
The camp, and all Christendom, shall see that I know how to right myself, and whether I yield ground one inch to the English bandog. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Patriots may smile; and, using him as bandog now to be muzzled, now to be let bark, name him, as Desmoulins does, 'Maximum of Patriotism' and. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading his bandog, a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
He lived to know that the fulsome adulation of the pitiable bishops whom he had consecrated to serve his own ends could not drown one howl of the conscience which he had transformed into a bandog within him. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference
Thus, if People's-friend Marat has to-day his writ of 'prise de corps, or seizure of body,' served on him, and dives out of sight, tomorrow he is left at large; or is even encouraged, as a sort of bandog whose baying may be useful. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
'They let loose instinct as an indiscriminatory bandog to guard them against his conclusions; they tugged lustily against the logical chain by which Hume was so coldly towing them and the world into bottomless abysses of atheism and fatalism.'. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Literature and History] Reference
When the Governor of La Ferette was mentioned in the conversation, he was usually spoken of as the bandog of Burgundy or the Alsatian mastiff; and intimation were openly given, that if his course were not instantly checked by his master, and he himself withdrawn from tbe frontiers of Switzerland, Archibald of Hagenbach would find his fortress no protection from the awakened indignation of the wronged inhabitants of Soleure, and particularly of those of Berne. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
And next him, like a bandog scenting blood. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
The lion 's chained, the bandog is afleep. From Wordnik.com. [A select collection of poems: with notes [by J. Nichols].] Reference
"Make bandog thy scout watch to bark at a thief. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
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