Barkless

My wife had had more than her fill of barking dogs in the house back when her sister lived with us, and when she found out about these barkless dogs, she said, "That's the dog for us." ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

Docile and chill though probably due to kennel cough, giardia, and a respiratory infection, Peanut Butter has been a dreamboat - barkless, crate-trained, doesn't chew, and, so far, housebroken. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sometimes they stop you and ask you what kind of dogs these are, and you explain to them that these are basenjis, the African barkless dogs. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

So we voted for a barkless watchdog, hopefully better than nothing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Really barkless, not interesting bark, this stump planter offers lots of nooks and crannies that create shadow art. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our dog Ira was huddled up by the front door and, for once, the annoying yip yapper was barkless. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just look what the queens did with the barkless basenji. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"She was barkless," said Ms. Diamond, a believer in gay-animal rights. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On our way back we passed the bleaching trunks and limbs of several ranks of barkless oaks lying side by side, some squared by the hatchet, perhaps sold, for there were large letters and Roman numerals traced upon them in red chalk. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Each farm had two or three vicious hounds set to go off at the merest sound, rushing barkless and low out of the dark shadows of roadside trees to rip at his legs with jaws like scythes. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

It means that a dog with both a barking and a barkless gene will turn out to be a barker, which probably explains why it was so easy for early dog breeders to create a domestic dog that is likely to bark. ❋ Stanley Coren (2000)

Gray foxes will climb trees, but her claws slid on the post's barkless surface. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The very idea that he was below the light of day, with a bunch of barkless tree trunks and sheer guts to keep a ton of rock from falling on his head, made him go clammy. ❋ STEF ANN HOLM (1992)

Piles of barkless tree trunks were neatly stacked in an alcove. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

Small buck, hares, and partridges were there in sufficient number to afford a good day's sport under other circumstances, while a profusion of various kinds of flowers afforded satisfaction to the eye, in strong contrast to the bare and barkless trunks of trees riven by the frequent storms that devastate these hills. ❋ Cecil Francis Romer (N/A)

Pleasantly the ripples break over the prostrate monarch of the forest that is lodged against the beach, and projects, branchless and barkless, into the stream; and mournfully the worn trunk sways up and down, as though tired of this rocking which has continued the same year after year; weary, and desiring to be at rest. ❋ Various (N/A)