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pye-dog

NOUN
  1. ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India

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  • The pye-dog, its diseased hindquarters shaking, the crewman, his stainless steel cleaver glinting, closed on each other. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • Hold in your head an approximate picture of the quantity of difference between a peke and a pye-dog. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • Selection – in the form of artificial selection by human breeders – can turn a pye-dog into a Pekinese, or a wild cabbage into a cauliflower, in a few centuries. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • If we imagine the sheer quantity of difference that separates a pye-dog from a peke, which took only a few centuries of evolution, how much longer is the time that separates us from the beginning of evolution or, say, from the beginning of the mammals? THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • If we imagine the sheer quantity of difference that separates a pye-dog from a peke, which took only a few centuries of evolution, how much longer is the time that separates us from the beginning of evolution or, say, from the beginning of the mammals? THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • Neatly dressed local passengers cover their noses with scented kerchiefs as though they were in the company of a pye-dog.
  • The survival instinct wasn't operating too well inside that pye-dog. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • Hold in your head an approximate picture of the quantity of difference between a peke and a pye-dog. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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