mastiff
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mastiffi
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mastiff englanniksi
One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and dogs.
(RQ:Plutarch North Lives), the fable of the ſheepe and woulues, how that the woulues came on a time, and willed the ſheepe, if they woulde haue peace with them, to deliuer them their maſtiues that kept them.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Jonson Sejanus)
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(RQ:Butler Hudibras)
(RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)
(quote-book)|year=1843|page=173|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/infernodanteali03daymgoog/page/n182/mode/1up|passage=Her, who did erst the lengthened fight maintain, / And heaped the death-pile red with Prankish gore, / The Vert fangs now to vassalage constrain: / The mastives old and young, Verrucchio bore, / Who in their lawless rule Montagna slew, / Make their teeth augres where they wont of yore: (..)
{{quote-book|en|year=1896|author=Theodore Roosevelt|title=Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail|publisher=The Century Co.|chapter=11
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