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King Charles spaniel   /kɪŋ tʃɑrlz spˈænjəl/   Listen
King Charles spaniel

noun
1.
A toy English spaniel with a black-and-tan coat; named after Charles II who popularized it.





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"King charles spaniel" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a certain kind of little dog, in the pictures of King Charles I. that ever since that breed has been known as the King Charles spaniel. ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... greeting the bald-headed Sun man received on Thursday, and a pair of four-year-old brown eyes were full enough of tears to break the heart of a policeman of many years' standing, and the little, crushed master of the dead King Charles spaniel went to sleep sobbing and believing that policemen were the greatest blot upon the ...
— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck
... the fashion-plate figures she saw in the picture-papers. She had imagined her with a wide, drooping hat, with a soft, clinging gown, and a bodice like a great white handkerchief crossed on her breast, holding a basket of flowers, while a King Charles spaniel gambolled ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... he was so good-natured that he would never fight other dogs; and even allowed a little King Charles spaniel named Raith to run off with any bone he might have been gnawing, and to tyrannise over him in a variety of ways. If attacked by an inferior enemy, he would throw his immense bulk down upon his antagonist and nearly smother him, ...
— Stories of Animal Sagacity • W.H.G. Kingston
... origin of the King Charles Spaniel, and its advent in this country, what it may, King Charles II. so much indulged and loved these little friends that they followed him hither and thither as they pleased, and seem to have been seldom separated from ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton


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