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use "on the scent " in a sentence


The police set a dog on the scent.

'You are on the scent, are you, Nancy?

Depend on it, they're on the scent down there; and that if he moved, he'd blow upon the thing at once.

I have seen a physician examining a patient's chest stop all at once, as he brought out a particular sound with a tap on the collarbone, in the attitude of a pointer who has just come on the scent or sight of a woodcock.

"The other day when he came out from Mass in full uniform, Michael Sidorych.


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" Simon did not finish, for on the still air he had distinctly caught the music of the hunt with only two or three hounds giving tongue.


He bent down his head and listened, shaking a warning finger at his master.


"They are on the scent of the cubs.


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" he whispered, "straight to the Lyadov uplands.


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