His pretext for choosing them is that he is in search of that rarest feature of Venetian real estate, a garden, which the Bordereaus are lucky enough to own, and so this unscrupulous literary hound is admitted into what he droolingly thinks of as "the citadel".
The son of a liberal Protestant Wall Street stockbroker, he was constantly in trouble at boarding school and at Harvard, where he founded the literary magazine Hound & Horn with Lincoln Kirstein to champion modernist authors like Joyce and Eliot, but also managed to get himself expelled for several months before graduating in 1931.
— a dog, one with probably the most regal pedigree in literary history, Odysseus's faithful hound Argos, who waited 20 years in Ithaca for his master's return, recognizing him even through his beggar's disguise and summoning just enough energy to greet him a final time before dying.
Though the 1890s were his years of highest literary achievement (except for The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902), it would be a misnomer to say Conan Doyle "concentrated" on his writing in this period.
Though readers were not always informed of his compensation for, say, uncovering the truth of the Red-Headed League or bringing the Hound of the Baskervilles to heel, Holmes remains a valuable literary property.
Hugh Kenner, a Canadian literary critic, once called Mr. Williams "the truffle hound of American poetry".
Early on he was a library hound, and there are a surprising number of literary references in his work.
At last, hounded by new doubts, I decided to submit it to the infallible test of print, not in El Espectador but in the literary supplement of El Tiempo.
There are scent hounds and sight hounds.
