The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading hisban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.
The guns on the fortress responded, but the small calibre made them sound as if they were yapping likebandogs while the bombers bayed and gave tongue like hounds in cry.
1938, Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page89:
He escaped from that experience confounded, horrified, and conscious of degradation. Those infernalbandogs of the law had treated him as a piece of insensate property to their drivelling mumbo-jumbo, as if mere contact with it had robbed him of all rights to the dignity and integrity of his own ego.
