mastiff

mastiff englannista suomeksi

1. mastiffi

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1. mastiffi

mastiff englanniksi

1. One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and dogs.

2. (RQ:Plutarch North Lives), the fable of the ſheepe and woulues, how that the woulues came on a time, and willed the ſheepe, if they woulde haue peace with them, to deliuer them their maſtiues that kept them.

3. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

4. (RQ:Jonson Sejanus)’s circke; / Where, like ſo many maſtiues, biting ſtones, / As if his ſtatues now were ſenſiue growne / Of their wild furie, firſt, they teare them downe; (..)

5. (RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)

6. (RQ:Butler Hudibras)

7. (RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)

8. (quote-book)|year=1843|page=173|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/infernodanteali03daymgoog/page/n182/mode/1up|passage=Her, who did erst the lengthened fight maintain, / And heaped the death-pile red with Prankish gore, / The Vert fangs now to vassalage constrain: / The mastives old and young, Verrucchio bore, / Who in their lawless rule Montagna slew, / Make their teeth augres where they wont of yore: (..)

9. {{quote-book|en|year=1896|author=Theodore Roosevelt|title=Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail|publisher=The Century Co.|chapter=11

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