"Hangdog" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fellow was a wrong 'un, all along," were the first words that filtered to the girl's consciousness as she stood. "But I didn't think he was responsible for that card trick, I must say. Young Bathurst looked so abominably hangdog." ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... been accused of the robbery was now presented by the secretary. He formed a marked contrast to his partner,—being tall, dark and slender, with a hangdog ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... considered. The feast-day wouldn't do. The crowd would be greatest then, and hardest to handle. Back and forth they brew their scheme. Then a knock at the door. Startled, they look alertly up to know who this intruder may be. The door is opened. In steps a man with a hangdog, guilty, but determined look. It is one of the men they have seen with Jesus! What can this mean? He glances furtively from one ...
— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon
... were outwardly civil enough, but they rarely spoke to him of their own accord, and sometimes they would break off in a conversation if he appeared interested. Desmond had put this down to the man's temper; he was a sullen fellow, with a perpetually hangdog look, occasionally breaking out in paroxysms of violence which cost him many a scourging from the overseer's merciless rattan. But the attitude of his fellow prisoner was more easily explained if the Babu's hint was well founded. They ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... ma'am. I 'ope I didn't presume to suggest such a thing"; and with a hangdog air Hempel prepared ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
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