There is also on record the case of a good-looking spaniel which was bought in London from a dog-fancier by a wealthy young man. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
The dog-fancier soon afterwards returned, and protested, with tears in his eyes, that the shabby trick had wounded him in his tenderest feelings, but he seemed quite willing to begin a fresh bargain with "the only gen'lemen, s'help me, as ever bested pore little ALEC." ❋ Various (N/A)
Slam was a dog-fancier as well as a rat-catcher, and therefore doggy boys were attracted to his premises, which, however, were sternly interdicted. ❋ Lewis Hough (N/A)
The last block of all on which the artist was engaged was one to be called "An Afternoon on the Flags;" it represented a complimentary dog-fancier comparing the points of beauty in a dog with those of the lady before him, but it was still unfinished when he fell back in his bed, dead from the fatal breast-pang. ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)
A dog-fancier happened to come through the street in which we both lodged, and PETER began to bargain with him for a fox-terrier, who, according to the fancier's account, had ❋ Various (N/A)
Here are the cards of the other gentlemen who were kind enough to think that I might wish to set up for a dog-fancier in my old age. ❋ Unknown (1928)
I have not become a dog-fancier in what you are pleased to call my old age! ❋ Unknown (1928)
"Why, are you setting up as a dog-fancier in your old age, colonel?" ❋ Unknown (1928)
A Frenchman discoursing on foreign peoples or on mankind in general -- a favourite topic -- suggests to me sometimes the fantastic vision of a dog-fancier criticizing a steer. ❋ Clive Bell (1922)
As for the dog collars, just imagine any one being a dog-fancier or even a fondler of dogs to the extent of purchasing a gold-rimmed or a diamond-studded collar while a Revolutionary Tribunal is sitting just around the corner. ❋ Unknown (1918)
To outgeneral a dog-fancier was a tribute to his shrewdness; to save two hundred dollars on a single purchase was economy of a high order. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
A thousand dog-fancier fishermen can attest to that. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
This sort of penetration characterises the man with an eye for horse-flesh, the dog-fancier, and men and women of the world. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
"He promised to engage the services of a dog-fancier friend of his." ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
"You imagined that a dog-fancier would specialize in cats?" ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
MARGOT: "You thought I was a dog-fancier or a rough-rider, did you, with a good thick skin?" ❋ Margot Asquith (1904)
There was a man at the time referred to known as old Sam Linton, the most extraordinary dog-fancier who ever lived, and the most curious thing about him was that he always fancied other people's dogs to his own. ❋ Brampton, Henry H (1904)
And even those varieties of the dog which have been bred into grotesque deformity by the dog-fancier are in good faith accounted beautiful by many. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The famous James Boon, of Buck Row, the greatest dog-fancier in the Five Towns, stood at the bottom of the steps: a tall, fat man, clad in stiff, stained brown and smoking a black clay pipe less than three inches long. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
The gestures of Mr Offlow, and her gestures, as he arranged and prepared the surface of the little square dancing-board that was her throne, showed that he was the husband of Florence Simcox rather than she the wife of Offlow the reciter and dog-fancier. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
