sleuthhound
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President Conant was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University with the citation: "a sleuthhound in pursuit of atoms, a champion of free inquiry and free speech."
From Time Magazine Archive
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
From that instant, all pretenses were abandoned, Robert was a sleuthhound on a keen scent.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
But the sleuthhound instinct of the Johnstone held good.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I knew the man well—a keen sleuthhound if ever there was one—and well did he deserve his name, for he was as red as a fox.
From Castles in the Air by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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