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Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 3, l. 6-7.
Threatening Antonio.)
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A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog—keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.
(Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-1898), U.S. author. David Harum, ch. 32 (1898).)
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I Gave to His Royal Highness (1734).
Dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales.)
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Po' buckra an' dog walk one pat' (The poor man and dog walk the same path).
(Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Gullah proverb. South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State (The WPA Guide to South Carolina), p. 108, in "Folklore and Folkways," Oxford University Press (1941).)
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As familiar with me as my dog.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Prince Hal, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 2, sc. 2, l. 106-7.)
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This is the dog
That worried the cat
(Mother Goose (fl. 17th-18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 11-12). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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The house-dog lost,
the little hen escaped,
the precious hay-rick scattered,
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me In Caelum.")
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
(Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian author. Mina, in In Evil Hour (1968, trans. 1979).)
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This is the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog
(Mother Goose (fl. 17th-18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 16-17). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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My dog lay dead five days without a grave
(Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. The Pardon (l. 1). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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