Word: hounds
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...rotter who would water his children's milk to cut down on his overhead. Why should a dog with whom I have nothing in common . . . be given the right to bound over me and lick my face? Why should I walk along a darkened street with an unleashed hound sniffing around my ankles as if I were a mobile hydrant...
...fell over orchidaceous ("Nero Wolfe was an orchidaceous hound," prompted Pronouncer Alleman), and a girl collapsed over the almost impossible chiastolite. On word No. 501, Sandra faced a crisis. Is vicinage spelled ige or age? Taking a deep breath, Sandra chose the "a," and survived...
...evening he found the true clue was to bet on the number one dog. This hound has been trained to run by the rail. That makes him a safe bet since he's first to the inside post and closest to "jeep...
...cousins still live in the sunny, sleepy Loire Valley, trying not to remember too much. Into this setting comes a messenger of the Fates, in the guise of a British intelligence officer who used to work with the dead Resistance hero. The officer cannot rest until the last hound of the past is stirred up; one of the cousins, it turns out, was the betrayer. After a harrowing inquisition, the old lady sternly ordains that the boy must stand public trial. The sequel is shame, murder and flight-all contrasted with the lovely countryside, the growing vineyards where the grapes...
...tones and the sounds made by dogs, birds and babies change when drastically sped up or slowed down. The effect is startling and instructive, e.g., a piano played in reverse sounds like a reed organ with hiccups, a canary's trill slowed eight times sounds like a baying hound...