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hounds and hell
Besides the devils, Baator is home to evil deities such as Tiamat and Kurtulmak, as well as hell hounds, fire giants, rakshasas, and other evil creatures.
Others however did not understand the purpose of the uproar and President Harry S. Truman was even reported to have said, " What the hell are the critics complaining about ; that's how you handle hounds.
He leads the hounds of hell, the Cwn Annwn on the Wild Hunt, and is intimately associated with Glastonbury Tor.
Creatures encountered here include fire giants, gnolls, and in the kennels, hell hounds.

hounds and search
The results were far from satisfactory, with one of the hounds biting the Commissioner and both dogs later running off requiring a police search to find them.
The Yoix name came about partially from the fox hunting cry of encouragement to the hounds, partially to echo another familiar four-letter name that ends in ix, and partially to avoid too many false-positives in a Google search.

hounds and out
Deer stalking with rifles is carried out on foot without hounds, using stealth.
No sooner does she establish herself in polite society than someone turns up who knows her disreputable history and spreads rumours ; Steyne himself hounds her out of Rome.
Some breeds of dogs have been bred to bark when chasing, such as scent hounds whose handlers use the bark to follow the dog if it has run out of sight.
The Old Man calls in Barkley, the family dog, to distract the Bumpuses ' hounds when the Old Man comes home from work ; when he gets out of the car, he accidentally steps in dog poop.
It is from Arrian that the most famous quote on the sporting fairness of coursing originates "... true huntsmen do not take out their hounds to catch the creature, but for a trial of speed and a race, and they are satisfied if the hare manages to find something that will rescue her ".
He died whilst out hunting with the South Berks hounds on 8 December 1930.
But she also finds out that there are four hounds, and three are already on their way to the school.
In the old days the hounds of the countryside used to come together to the side of that the ford to bark, and nobody dared go to find out what was there until Urien Rheged came.

hounds and their
In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.
Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.
As a result they were often called " liberty hounds " by their owners similar to " liberty cabbage " becoming a term for sauerkraut.
The remaining hounds in the hands of a few families who were mainly descendants of the old Irish chieftains, were now symbols of status rather than hunters, they were said to be the last of their race.
Equally, if an acute sense of smell were " more necessary to the sustenance of the animal ... the same principle change the qualities of the animal, and .. produce a race of well scented hounds, instead of those who catch their prey by swiftness ".
They would have been kept by the Scots and Picts, and used to help in providing part of their diet, namely hoofed game ( archaeological evidence likely supports this in the form of Roman pottery from around 1st Century AD found in Argyll which depicts the deerhunt using large rough hounds ( these can be viewed at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh ).
Foxes were referred to as beasts of the chase by medieval times, along with the red deer ( hart & hind ), martens, and roes, but the earliest known attempt to hunt a fox with hounds was in Norfolk, England, in 1534, where farmers began chasing foxes down with their dogs for the purpose of pest control.
Both sisters have refused to comment publicly about their feud and dysfunctional family relationships, though in an interview with John Kobal, Fontaine stated categorically that the so-called rivalry was a pure hoax, cooked up by the studio publicity hounds.
Even the Tories, who had declared that should he fail they would " break him up like hounds on a hare ", could not entirely restrain their patriotic admiration.
In the 18th century some terriers were crossed with hounds to improve their hunting, and some with fighting dog breeds to " intensify tenacity and increase courage ".
Both sisters have refused to comment publicly about their feud and dysfunctional family relationship, though in an interview with John Kobal, Fontaine stated that the so-called rivalry was a hoax, created by studio publicity hounds.
Generally, hunters do not chase their quarry along with the hounds, unlike organized foxhunting, but wait and listen to the distinctive baying to determine if prey has been treed.
Also in the 1770s he painted single portraits of dogs for the first time, while also receiving an increasing number of commissions to paint hunts with their packs of hounds.
Likewise, Harry Hotspur was said to have been hunting in the Cheviots when he and his hounds got holed-up in the Hen Hole ( or " Hell-hole ") awaiting the sound of a hunting horn to awaken them from their slumber.
* 218. 6 Fox Hunters Paradise, down a short walking path, is where hunters could listen to their hounds baying in the valley below.
French knights in the Holy Land were accompanied by their pointers and other hunting hounds.
* " The Ballad of Maxwell Demon " contains the lyrics: " The boys from Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds never come ' round here no more ," referencing Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451.
Bassets work much slower than beagles but are admired by many for their strong and deep voice, however they are much more independent hounds.
HSA activists use a model of leaderless resistance and have been using the same basic tactics since their inception in 1963 ; the underlying principle being to directly intervene in a day's hunting, historically by delaying or confusing the horses and hounds.
Diodorus, on the contrary, describes the spot whence Proserpine was carried off as a meadow abounding in flowers, especially odoriferous ones, to such a degree that it was impossible for hounds to follow their prey by the scent across this tract: he speaks of it as enclosed on all sides by steep cliffs, and having groves and marshes in the neighborhood, but makes no mention of a lake.
Alternatively, two hounds may trap the fox against an edge of the board ( other than their original home-row ).
They solve mysteries with the help of their two talking hounds, Woofer and Wimper.
The scent, usually a combination of aniseed oils and possibly animal meats or urine, is dragged along the terrain by a volunteer for any distance up to several miles to a designated finish line before the hounds are released at the start line by their owners.

hounds and quarry
Salukis are " sight " hounds, which means they hunt by sight, run the quarry down, catch it, and kill or retrieve it.
The baying of the hounds was identified with the crying of wild geese as they migrate and the quarry of the hounds as wandering spirits, being chased to Annwn.
The Otterhound hunts its quarry both on land and in water and it has a combination of characteristics unique among hounds ; most notably an oily, rough, double coat and substantial webbed feet.
* Chase: This was the hunt proper ; here it was essential to keep the hounds on the track of the selected quarry.
The quarry, often a whole herd, would be driven by hounds to a predetermined place.
Most show hounds are Walkers, many of the pack hounds ( used with hunting foxes on horseback ) are Penn-Marydel and hunters use a variety of strains to suit their hunting style and quarry.

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