sleuthhound
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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
With Jimmy above stairs and Spike Mullins below, that sleuthhound would have his hands full.
From The Gem Collector by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
"The instinct of the sleuthhound," he said to himself, "is all very well, but why on earth haven't I told Furley about the car?"
From The Devil's Paw by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Could you be a sleuthhound, Bill—one of those that travel on their stomachs very noiselessly?
From The Red House Mystery by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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