"Spaniel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him! I like him better than if he came like a spaniel to my foot. But I will say no more till I fully have my brother's consent. No one knows what crooks there may ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... his ears, and elevating his stump of a tail, yapped at the be-ribboned spaniel with all a terrier's contempt, as he advanced to the attack. The stout dame screamed, dropped the leash, and hit at the terrier with the handle of her parasol. The poodle evidently considering flight the best ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... exercised for the different purposes of strength or swiftness, in carrying burthens or in running races; or in dogs, which have been cultivated for strength and courage, as the bull-dog; or for acuteness of his sense or smell, as the hound and spaniel; or for the swiftness of his foot, as the greyhound; or for his swimming in the water, or for drawing snow-sledges, as the rough-haired dogs of the north; or lastly, as a play-dog for children, as the lap-dog; with the changes of the forms of the ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... and I stroke the gleeful spaniel at my side, And, delighted with each other, do we ramble far and wide, While a ditty is the tribute to the joy that gives it birth, And the leaves, refreshed, are pouring their cool ...
— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott
... pantaloons, to show his very celebrated legs, transparent stockings and polished shoes, was throwing himself into attitudes in the back ground, and with a zeal amounting almost to enthusiasm, teaching Lady Marney's spaniel to beg; when the door opened, and Lord Marney entered, but as if to make security doubly sure, not alone. He was accompanied by a neighbour and brother magistrate, Sir Vavasour Firebrace, a baronet of ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
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