sleuthhound
Example Sentences
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President Conant was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University with the citation: "a sleuthhound in pursuit of atoms, a champion of free inquiry and free speech."
From Time Magazine Archive
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Enoch Standring had something of the sleuthhound in his nature.
From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph
M. Formery had so exactly the air of a sleuthhound; and he was even noisier.
From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
With Jimmy above stairs and Spike Mullins below, that sleuthhound would have his hands full.
From The Gem Collector by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
