Word: scenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trailers behind sturdy automobiles, Texas wolf hunters gather at 2 or 3 a. m., motor far out into the brush. Best time to cast the hounds is just before daybreak, when the land is wet and the dogs, running with heads up. can catch the wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield. As he tires, he returns...
Like two dogs who feel they have an urgent appointment with a rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds raised their heads and bayed for the delectation of the countryside. Alf Landon's course, starting from Philadelphia, doubled back to Pittsburgh, veered to Newark. N. J., swept into Manhattan (where at the old-fashioned Murray Hill Hotel he met Al Smith for the first time), dashed...
...Wild West tales. It begins with a scene in which the Governor tells Bill Jesse: "By gatlings, we're going to make a new State out of Texas. You're built for the job. A born manhunter, that's what you are. . . . You have a scent like a bloodhound, and courage to match it. I bet you don't know what fear...
Last June in Topeka, Kans. Federal agents found one of the purloined certificates squashed in the straw-hat lining of a minor pugilist named Melvin Smith. With this evidence to provide the scent, the Federal operatives relentlessly followed a tortuous trail to Manhattan, to California, to Florida, back to Manhattan, to the Bahamas. Last week, in Manhattan again, the agents came to a full stop. Eight thieves had been put under lock & key, $310,000 of the $590,000 recovered. No. 1 man, whom the G-Men called "one of the shrewdest security thieves in the country," was a shifty...
...have realized the dangers implicit in the law, teachers in schools and colleges are mobilizing a belated but sturdy and almost unanimous resistance. And everywhere they have won the support of the students in their institutions and the more sophisticated groups in their communities. The middle class begins to scent trouble...