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Like deerhounds, his men rose up and dashed pell-mell into the panic-stricken host.

From The Kangaroo Marines by Campbell, R. W.

The Earls of Huntley, Argyle, and Athol, brought their deerhounds with them, and hunted with his Majesty.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

The Mohawks ran in pursuit like deerhounds, though all of them were over fifty years of age.

From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by Hyrst, H. W. G.

Or Lord Ronald's deerhounds, in the haunted forest of Glenfinlas,— 'Within an hour return'd each hound; In rush'd the rousers of the deer; They howl'd in melancholy sound, Then closely couch beside the seer....

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

Susan unbarred it, when to her astonishment the two deerhounds her husband had taken with him walked into the hut, looking weary and soiled.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various