Sentences with phrase «pack of hounds»

The first Lakeland terriers were kept by farmers who took them along with small packs of hounds in order to kill the foxes that were a problem in the area.

There are instances of packs of hounds in England before the time of the Romans and they are thought to be the beginning of both sight and scent hounds.

David Cameron has promised a free vote on a government amendment that would make it legal to kill foxes for pest control and for them to be flushed out by a full pack of hounds.

«As the independence of members of the House of Commons has decreased under the system of party discipline — it is known as «whipping» by analogy with the fox hunting practice of whipping pack of hounds into order for the pursuit — so both the quality and reputation of MPs has declined, rendering them even less likely to behave independently.

A full - dress foxhunt, with all its pageantry and ritual, was an arresting sight: dozens of hunters and horses, huge packs of hounds, and tenacious fox terriers, all thundering across the vast, rolling estates of the very rich.

In a famous scene in The Brothers Karamazov by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81), the story is told of a general who deliberately sets a pack of hounds on a boy who had accidentally injured one of them.

You'll need a pack of hounds too.

«Chief whip» is suitably 19th century when ordering around a pack of hounds but, by all accounts, she'll be herding cats, and picky ones at that.

The Countryside Alliance said hunts had attracted increasing numbers of children since the sport's profile was raised by the 2004 Hunting Act that banned hunting foxes with a pack of hounds.

McBride arrived in Florida with his pack of hounds.

Given his remarkable stamina and the quality of his pack of hounds, a lion «almost never gets away» once McBride goes after it.»

It was their fault he was here, freezing his bloody balls off with a pack of hounds deep in the haunted forest.

During the 14th century, Comte de Foix kept a pack of these hounds and Henry IV of France kept a pack of his own during the 16th and early 17th century.

The central part of the Sanctuary of several acres is already fully fenced but unfortunately there isn't much that will keep out a pack of hounds in full cry.

Sounds like you have quite the pack of hounds on your hands hope they are all feeling 100 % by now.

Multiplayer is fun too, and we love nothing more than setting a pack of hounds on our hapless rivals.