This "king of shreds and patches" -- for, to the outward sense, he seems that now -- has been "at large" for days, perhaps for two or three weeks; he has been unkennelled, and, among the lawless mountains, has felt no restraint upon his own lawlessness, however Cyclopean. ❋ Various (N/A)
They unkennelled at Punpernwood, four miles east of Blandford. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
As a gentleman was coursing under Blodwell Rock, near Porthywaen lime works, he unkennelled a very large dog fox; and having two couple of beagles, they pursued him through the extensive covers near that rock to the summit of Llanymynech hill; but being very hard run, he made a short turn passing through the Gorwell covers, and along the banks of the river Turnet, near to the village of Llanyblodwell. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Society is an unkennelled bloodhound that roams our cities seeking whom it may devour. ❋ Unknown (1903)
“Well, Sir, (said I, with a strong voice, looking him full in the face,) you have unkennelled your fox; pursue him if you dare.” ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
"We have unkennelled the fox, have we?" the sergeant of the squad said. ❋ William Henry Thomes (1859)
After a night much disturbed by this constant quarrelling, we unkennelled the hounds just as the first grey streak of dawn spread above Totapella Peak. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
"I say, Mike, I thought by this time that we should have fought half a dozen battles with the redskins, killed no end of buffalo and deer, unkennelled black bears and grizzlies without number, and trapped beavers and racoons and 'possums by scores!" exclaimed Dan, as we were seated round our camp-fire. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Herne and his two black hounds of Saint Hubert's breed would hunt him down with marvellous speed; if a wild boar was to be reared, a badger digged out, a fox unkennelled, a marten bayed, or an otter vented, Herne was chosen for the task. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)
I have no recollection how the papers found their way into the old trunk from which they were lately unkennelled. ❋ Various (1836)
Here, at least, the body rests in purity, the desert breeze, which sweeps its "dread abode" barer and barer, is not contaminated with the effluvia of a death-dealing pestilence; and though the ardent sun of Africa smites continually the lonely grave, the bones mayhap will rest undisturbed till reunited and refleshed at the loud call of the Trump of Doom! unkennelled, uncoffined by wild beast, or more ferocious man. ❋ James Richardson (1828)
From this it appeared that the chase lasted four days, and that the distance traversed from the place where the fox was unkennelled to the spot where it was caught, without making any allowances for doubles, crosses, &c., and as the crow flies, exceeded seventy miles. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
A fox was once unkennelled near Boroughbridge in Yorkshire, at twenty-seven minutes past nine, and except half-an-hour taken up in bolting him from a rabbit-burrow, the hounds had a continued run until fourteen minutes past five in the evening, when they killed the fox in good style. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
During a period of repose a fox was unkennelled in the neighbourhood of Corja, in Spain. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
In the suburbs we unkennelled the dogs: the pack consisted of twenty, all counted; ill-matched as to size and bone, but appearing healthy, clean, full of spirits, and in good working trim. ❋ Tyrone Power (1818)
You cannot imagine how vexed I was that Bloomfield (211) died before he arrived at Houghton -- I had promised myself a whole crop of notable ancestors-but I think I have pretty well unkennelled them myself. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
"The gentleman from Massachusetts warned us that, if the individual we seek to elevate shall succeed, he will in his turn become the object of public pursuit, and that the same pack will be unkennelled at his heels that have run his rival down. ❋ Unknown (1922)
