How To Use Mastiff In A Sentence
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They had dogs of their own - a mastiff the size of a Humvee, and a tiny comma of a toy poodle.
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A second cluster of dogs consists of mastiff-like breeds, including the bulldog, Rottweiler, and boxer.
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Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
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In the 16th century, English mastiffs were famous for their courage and ferocity as war dogs, and were used in Spanish armies both in Europe and America.
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The owner of the mastiff digs in and tries to drag his dog over to us to have a chat.
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The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt.
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A masty [mastiff] is handsomer to me than the most exact little dog that ever lady played withal.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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News of the fatal attack has prompted enquiries from prospective owners to kennels that raise the dogs, which were originally bred from cattle dogs, mastiffs and bulldogs brought to the Canary Islands by British settlers.
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And then, you know, he got a hint of how serious they considered the whole thing; for one of them came up to him, leading a great bullmastiff, and offered it to him, to take to keep him company.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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This was found to be necessary following the near judicial destruction of a bull mastiff called Buster whose owner had removed his muzzle so that the ill dog could vomit without choking.
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We do not need numbers to back up the fact that your Martin DM uses less electricity than your stereo that takes up the same amount of shelf space as a bullmastiff.
Jenna Woginrich: Stop Making Fun of My Banjo
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And a magnificent animal he is!" remarked my grandfather; "but although a mastiff is the largest of dogs, I do not think it is as sensible as many others.
The Elson Readers, Book 5
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Domestic dogs vary in size from diminutive, 1.5 kg chihuahuas to 90 kg giant mastiffs.
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Others claim the bulldog resulted from the crosses between mastiffs and Dutch pug dogs.
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Take heart dearie, just hope you can find a very cute bulldog LOL or bullmastiff to take his place, its all right. *sob sob*
R.I.P BULLDOG
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Testing of two PRA affected animals within a 17th breed, the bull mastiff, revealed one heterozygote and one homozygous normal animal.
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Towns urged residents to purchase hounds and mastiffs and train them to hunt wolves.
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We also love dogs and have an english mastiff, great dane, bouvier des flandres, tibetan mastiff and a pit bull.
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Mr. Hunsden gave him a mastiff cub, which he called Yorke, after the donor; it grew to a superb dog, whose fierceness, however, was much modified by the companionship and caresses of its young master.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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It recognised that a policy that insists on equal terms for rich and poor is like pitting a bull mastiff against a chihuahua.
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The white villa was surrounded by a high spiked wall and a pack of mastiffs patrolled the grounds.
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The various beissers were descended from mastiffs, which were themselves descended from a dog called the Molossian.
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Others claim the bulldog resulted from the crosses between mastiffs and Dutch pug dogs.
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Three large mastiffs rush into the room, snarling.
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The two dogs were cross-breeds of a mastiff and bull terrier.
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The Dangerous Dog Act bans the ownership of four breeds: the pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, the Argentine dogo and the Brazilian mastiff.
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Georgina, a nine-year-old bull mastiff, squeezed through the doors of Abbeydale Vets, Preston New Road, Blackburn, in February after the owners became concerned about her weight.
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A longtime breeder of champion bull mastiffs, Einstein is a smart, able, take-no-prisoners type of gal.
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The mastiff is a large, grave, sullen-looking dog, with a wide chest, noble head, long switch tail, bright eyes, and a loud, deep voice.
Chatterbox Stories of Natural History
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The English hounds, bred in royal courts during the 15th and 16th century, were high-legged, strong animals probably originating from the crossing of English mastiffs with Irish greyhounds and wolfhounds.
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This is where Byron installed his carriages, his manservant, his mistress, as well as several cats, a mastiff, a pair of cranes, a fox, a wolf, at least two monkeys and a sickly crow.
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The Mastiff was a big crowd-puller in the recently concluded championship dog show in the city.
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The photo is of singer Siobhan Parr with her bull mastiff, Alfie.
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The mastiff is a good fighter, and can kill a wildcat, taking the necessary punishment well, as we found out when we once trapped one of these small lynxes.
The Ranchman's Rifle on Crag and Prairie
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The two-year-old girl was attacked at her home in Greenroyd Avenue, Bolton, and bitten seven times on the face by the bull mastiff.
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Tibetan Mastiffs are still a primitive breed, which is evident by the fact that the bitches have a single oestrus per year.
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Two English mastiffs regua. idant, proper, each having a plain collar.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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I certainly do not recall a mastiff attack on anyone in living memory, mainly because whilst they are huge dogs they are rare, normally gentle and require considerable funds to keep.
London SE1 community website
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The three-year-old bull mastiff then unwittingly found herself at the centre of an investigation into the murder of former boxer Brian Keating - but was finally reunited with her original owners thanks to the police.
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Others claim the bulldog resulted from the crosses between mastiffs and Dutch pug dogs.
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Johno is a 13-stone bull mastiff, Barry's the tiny border terrier.
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Link nc #6 is absolutely correct - my friends have over the years rescued several dogs, including two Mastiffs and a Spinone, which were abandoned in state parks near NYC.
Choice of First Dog Is Narrowed to 2 Breeds - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Even Bob, the bull mastiff who plays Agent 11, seems embarrassed by the proceedings.
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‘They were like tied mastiffs newly loosed,’ one minister remarked of his mainly Royalist congregation who had discovered a sudden hatred for all things Puritan.
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We found one rather funny thing, and that was the great bullmastiff, lying stiff with its neck broken.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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The dog, described as a "scungy looking" black mastiff or staffy cross, with a white chest and back paws, was still on the loose last night.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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She was playing with the bull mastiff in the back garden of her home in Greenroyd Avenue, Breightmet, when the dog suddenly attacked, biting her several times on her face and upper body.
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A masty [mastiff] is handsomer to me than the most exact little dog that ever lady played withal.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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He filled the injury down-time by buying a racehorse, Leitrim Rock, then selling it 18 months ago - ‘It was no good, and costing too much’ - and replacing it with £600-worth of bull mastiff named Winny.
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Ask not what bull mastiffs can do for you.
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It is said that what the lion is to the cat, the mastiff is to the dog.
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And a magnificent specimen he is!" remarked my grandfather; "but although a mastiff is the largest and most imposing of the race, I do not think it is as sensible as many others.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories
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Unique designs ranging from one customer's order for a cabinet featuring the faces of his best friends or another's memorialization of a bullmastiff on a chair are affordable.
Santa Clara del Cobre & Erongaricuaro
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My bullmastiff/staffie cross would have killed a fox, but possibly in a more lingering fashion than a pack of hounds.
The Hunters Hunted
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It is thought the bullmastiff died at the scene.
The Sun
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His immediate ancestors are a bull mastiff, a pit bull and a Rottweiler.
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Alongside familiar pop stars, footballers and Hollywood stars the Calendar Club stall offered buyers the chance to spend the next 12 months with sea otters, sunflowers, or, for those of a hardier disposition, bull mastiffs.
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A fearsome Tibetan mastiff stands guard outside a dwelling while a smaller dog is ready to sound the alarm indoors if anyone is clever enough or lucky enough to slip past the mastiff.
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The family's pet bull mastiff dog was shot dead by the gunman.
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Lion-dogs - immense mastiffs with the solid bodies of Rottweilers but the matted coats and lion ruffs of chows - were staked outside these tents, barking themselves hoarse.
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Suddenly we both notice Buster, a Bullmastiff friend sniffing along with its owner trailing along behind.
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The adjacent moat was found to contain the well preserved skulls of two lions and a leopard, and dog skulls - possibly mastiffs used for baiting - which were dated to between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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The highlight of the show this year was Bull Mastiff, a giant short-haired dog, bred for more than 2,000 years in England.
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The nymphs and their mastiff are quicker to spot the boys than, perhaps, the viewer of the picture; certainly more alert than their majestic protectress Diana, who is distracted by an archery contest.
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The two dogs were cross-breeds of a mastiff and bull terrier.
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The mastiff began licking its paw, not taking its eyes from us.
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Rex is genuine Tibetan Mastiff. We traced his genealogy back 10 generations.
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The superdogs, which have been seen in packs as large as 16, are crosses between native dingos and Rottweilers and mastiffs, the latter two well known for their strength and aggression.
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It was a huge mastiff far too large to be her messan or lap dog.
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As they were making their way back to their car they crossed the road with one of the dogs but the other, a bull mastiff, was on the grass on the other side.
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She never had any children, and was not taxed with debauchery: "No man can say or affirm that ever she had a sweetheart or any such fond thing to dally with her;" a mastiff was the only living thing she cared for.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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After encounters with ‘a scabrous German shepherd’ and ‘two blood-eyed mastiffs’, he walks past two ‘copulating dogs’ on his way to talk to Maximo, another shark-man.
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A Tibetan Mastiff is also a awful, 1 accomplished, 1 sheep bouncer, 1 and keeps any abeyant, 1 threats at bay, and are also good nocturnal guards.
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The presa canario - a cross of the bardino majero, an extinct Spanish breed, and the English mastiff - is typical of dogs engineered to fight other animals.
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The two dogs were cross-breeds of a mastiff and bull terrier and were kept, presumably as pets, by a woman with very young children.
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The other brother, his free movement hampered by his apron, flung himself at the Prussian officer like a terrier at a bull mastiff.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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A 6-month-old Brazilian fila mastiff attacked its owner's sister and bit her in the face as she reached for its collar.
Fairfax County Animal Watch
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The bull mastiff cross-breeds tugged her between each other, tearing chunks out of her flesh before turning on their owner and her two young children, witnesses said.
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Schneider and the other men pattered after him like puppy dogs in the wake of a masterful mastiff.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Bear the bull mastiff has already taken five first prizes at dog shows across the South West, countless rosettes, plaques and certificates.
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Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
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Joining all-time favourites Labradors and German shepherds are the golden retriever, Rottweiler and English mastiff.
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At the call the mastiff came up and looked inquiringly at his master.
The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective
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Police are trying to establish what may have caused a bull mastiff terrier to turn on its owner in Dunedin.
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A girl suffered terrible injuries to her face and head after she was pinned to the ground and mauled by a bull mastiff dog.
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One early British author studying dogs in the Orient described the native dogs she found in China as being mixed with mastiff, chow, bulldog and common street dogs.
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The city's pet-loving Bohemians are obsessed by the horrible death of a woman mauled by a mastiff.
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A schoolboy mauled by an out-of-control bull mastiff is recovering after a four-hour operation on his injuries.
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All the farmyard life was wonderful there, -- bantams, speckled and topknotted; Friesland hens, with their feathers all turned the wrong way; Guinea fowls that flew and screamed and dropped their pretty spotted feathers; pouter pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a wonderful brindled dog, half mastiff, half bulldog, as large as a lion.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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From the volume and pitch of its bark, he had pictured some giant slobbering beast, a mastiff or a Doberman.
Gideon’s war
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Mastiffe Whelp, with other ruff-island-like curs fetcht from among the Antipodes, which bite and barke at the fantasticall humourist and abuses of the time.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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News of the fatal attack has prompted enquiries from prospective owners to kennels that raise the dogs, which were originally bred from cattle dogs, mastiffs and bulldogs brought to the Canary Islands by British settlers.
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Which, after a brief but unnerving encounter with the pub dog (4ft high bull mastiff which had a go at me at me in the carpark), we proceeded to do.
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He said the family's bull mastiff attacked the gunman, biting him, so the offender shot the dog dead.
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The teeth -- those great friends of the closet naturalist, which help him to whole pages of speculation -- have enabled him to separate the beaver from the musquash, although the whole history and habits of these creatures prove them to be congeners, as much as a mastiff is the congener of a greyhound -- indeed, far more.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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Sadie is a a Mastador (1/4 Mastiff and 3/4 Lab) She is 16 weeks old and as curious as ever!
Best Gun Dog Contest
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A transplanted Hollander, carried thither originally from China, seems to thrive particularly well in this part of the world; the little pug dog, or Dutch mastiff, which our English ladies were once so fond of, that poor Garrick thought it worth his while to ridicule them for it in the famous dramatic satire called Lethe, has quitted London for Padua, I perceive; where he is restored happily to his former honours, and every carriage I meet here has a _pug_ in it.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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The Himalayan mastiff is a much bigger dog, a loveable-looking animal on the lines of the Great Pyrenees.
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More than 4,000 years ago, the ancient Assyrians, Persians, and Babylonians used mastiffs wearing spiked collars to attack their enemies.
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They were Tibetan mastiffs, such as are to be seen chained in the court yards of lamaseries.
The Jungle Girl
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A brazen bullmastiff, saucy Great Dane, frisky Rottweiler or even a cheeky Chihuahua would have been more flattering than a breed most associated with tutus, rhinestone collars and yapping.
Meredith C. Carroll: An Open Letter to Al Gore
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And I certainly do not recall a mastiff attack on anyone in living memory, mainly because whilst they are huge dogs they are rare, normally gentle and require considerable funds to keep.
London SE1 community website
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If Mother Mastiff had retained enough presence of mind to remember that the Drallarian gendarmery occasionally employed the services of tracking animals-for the first time hope crowded despair from Flinx's thoughts.
For Love of Mother-Not
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If a peasant wanted to leave the county, he had to pay a toll on one of my bridges and had to be back before night-fall, lest my feared mastiffs track him down and tear him limb-from-limb.
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It is thought the bullmastiff died at the scene.
The Sun
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You can reason with a mastiff, take a bull by surprise, fascinate a snake, frighten a tiger, mollify a lion; but there is no resource with the monster known as a loosened gun.
Great Sea Stories
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A longtime breeder of champion bull mastiffs, Einstein is a smart, able, take-no-prisoners type of gal.
