Examples of hound

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We wish to stay here, not to be hounded out by the industries around us.
On the other hand the stolen copy was said also to treat of hunting with hounds.
The security services hounded members of the recalcitrant syndicates.
With foxes, it is often for hounds to catch foxes that are diseased (most likely due to mange).
I don't feel stressed out by it or hounded or harassed; it's my choice.
Anarchists were hounded and their organisations wiped out in the early twentieth century.
His fall was equally dramatic; he ended his days a drugged-out paranoid, hounded by the authorities and driven into penury.
Certainly he will not fulfil his father's dreams, hounded as he is by the circumstances of his birth and the events of his early life.
In due course, the founding fathers' favourite periods were hounded as contaminated by old-fashioned approaches and resistant to newer ones.
He is a man who has left teaching, having been hounded out after unfair allegations of impropriety with a male pupil.
The couple is hounded and caught.
To put it differently, politicians behave like old watchdogs returning to their kennels, whereas the media resemble a pack of hounds briefly following the interests of the day.
Worse, he was compelled to perform the song to an actual hound dog wearing a top hat who seemed unimpressed by the proceedings.
Similarly, in the previous example the captured badger is presented as distinct from the dogs that hound him.
By far the noblest of the four figures depicted is the stoical hound.
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