"It's the King himself!" the Mastiff whispered in an awestruck tone.
A Mastiff, dressed in a scarlet collar, and carrying a musket, was pacing up and down, like a sentinel, in front of the entrance.
At the sounds of her voice, the rage of the mastiff, instead of being at all diminished, was very sensibly increased.
At every gambol played by the latter, it approached nigher to the dog, the growling of the three becoming more horrid at each moment, until the younger beast, over-leaping its intended bound, fell directly before the mastiff. There was a moment of fearful cries and struggles, but they ended almost as soon as commenced, by the cub appearing in the air, hurled from the jaws of Brave, with a violence that sent it against a tree so forcibly as to render it completely senseless.
Second-floor back windows all open, atmosphere as sultry as ever, gardener's pruning-ladder quite safe in the tool-shed, savage
mastiff in his kennel crunching his bones for supper.
The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a
mastiff. It may have been--yes, by Jove, it is a curly-haired spaniel."
These creatures were of the size of a large
mastiff, but infinitely more nimble and fierce; so that if I had taken off my belt before I went to sleep, I must have infallibly been torn to pieces and devoured.
The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and stood on his hinder legs, so as to put his fore paws on the chariot wheel.
To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff would never let me pass the gateway; for I should be compelled to take a sheaf of sunbeams along with me, and those, you know, are forbidden things in Pluto's kingdom."
Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate, took a flying leap right over the three-headed mastiff, and stood at the door of the palace in an inconceivably short time.
White Fang had never seen such a dog (it was a
mastiff); but the size and fierce aspect of the intruder did not deter him.
"I do not like that music at my dinner." Just at that moment the door flew open, in came two huge
mastiffs, and the two mice had to scamper down and run off.
At the sound, two large
Mastiffs appeared, dressed in Carabineers' uniforms.
Or shall I, as the
mastiffs do, Roll me before thee?
by Times News Service A Bordeaux
Mastiff. Photo: Pixabay
