The word 'hound' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of dog or a human tracker or hunter. For example: "The hound tracked the fox across the meadow."
In fact, I would generally harry, hassle and hound them until they give up or leave the country.
Many of the old hands are ready to go when the time comes; indeed one hound - Champ, who used to spend his summers near Helvellyn - did not need to be fetched, he just went on his own.
One example: the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which prosecutors used to hound open-web advocate Aaron Swartz.
The construction union, the CFMEU, said the unprecedented action showed the government's preparedness "to hound workers and prevent them from speaking out on issues affecting their employment".
So Champ and his friend got to Rydal after all but there was no prize that year for so bedraggled a hound.
Or take the train to Bodmin Parkway, and treat the hound to the slightly pricier Trevenna (01579 320013; trevenna.co.uk).
So, unfairly or not, the case has harmed the image of Malaysia's judiciary, and, to the extent that he is seen as implicated in its decisions, of Mr Najib himself.Already his reputation as a liberal and moderate has been dented by his government's use of another archaic and draconian law, on sedition, to hound its critics.
Especially uncomfortable is the attention of the United States Senate, where a subcommittee headed by Carl Levin has gone after American tax dodgers and their accomplices like a starving hound chasing a fox.
Likewise, Union fury at secessionists for having started the whole horror show in the first place is understandable.Mr Doctorow's writing here is magnificent, the details he selects unerringly trenchant: "the wagon bumping over dead dogs every hound to be seen was shot through the head".
In the Hammer "Hound" and in a subsequent series for the BBC, Cushing attacked the part as if relieved not to be playing another psychopath.
