| 单词 | go to the dogs |
| 例句 | “God, this place is going to the dogs,” said Malfoy loudly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A Daily Telegraph readers' one, perhaps: how Britain has gone to the dogs? Civilization: The West and the?Rest by Niall Ferguson ? review 2011-03-25T12:37:09Z A dog’s breakfast is followed by a dog’s dinner, but the dog ate my homework so I’ve gone to the dogs. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Even the ultimate Halloween symbol - the jack-o’-lantern - is going to the dogs. Spooky: Dogs snatch Halloween limelight from black cats, bats 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Could our dogs come back to us, or were we going to the dogs? Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z “Even though the idea that language is going to the dogs is widespread, nothing much has been done to mitigate it,” Shariatmadari writes. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z "You can eat, get your hair cut, but for shopping this high street has gone to the dogs." High Streets: One in six Welsh shops are now empty, data shows 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z “If you don’t figure it out, you go to the dogs.” When a telephone pole’s worth of shade or straw hat is the only relief from deadly heat 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Inflation changes everything: Today, “going to the dogs” is closer in meaning to “putting on the Ritz” amid skyrocketing costs for dog food. Inflation drives dog food prices to record highs, study finds 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z A new fine-dining restaurant in the Bay Area has gone to the dogs. Haute (dog) cuisine: San Francisco restaurant offers $75 tasting menu for canines 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Another said the hospital was "going to the dogs". I went undercover to expose abuse at a mental health hospital 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z If you ignore what you see, your life will quite literally go to the dogs. Perspective | Ask Amy: My boyfriend won’t listen to my concerns about his dog 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z We now live on a distinctly misused planet in a country that looks like it could be going to the dogs. The imperial presidency comes home to roost 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z For context, the authors go to the dogs — and wolves. A fetching alternative to the dog-eat-dog workplace 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “We heard that it went to the dogs,” she said. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The state went to the dogs, with betting at Southland Greyhound Park in West Memphis, in 1956. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The slogan implies that the country is going to the dogs, and that only one man can save it. Feel the love, feel the hate – my week in the cauldron of Trump's wild rallies 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But without it, developed economies would go to the dogs. Could giving property rights to the poor unlock trillions? 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z If Florida’s law catches on, it may be only a matter of time before courthouses across the country go to the dogs. Allowing dogs in courtrooms brings calm, concerns 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z “God bless America, but it has gone to the dogs.” Trump’s budget would hit rural towns especially hard — but they’re willing to trust him 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Is this just one more example of the justice system going to the dogs? DNA evidence helps free a service dog from death row 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z “I couldn’t understand these adults saying England is finished, going to the dogs,” he said. The man who brought you Brexit | Sam Knight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Life, he said, has “gone to the dogs,” and meddling from outside is to blame. Wigan’s Road to Brexit: Anger, Loss and Class Resentments 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Judging by the rhetoric of the Republican presidential contest, the country is going to the dogs; in parts of the South, the infrastructure is indeed crumbling. Going rogue 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Romford is the biggest town in the borough, and I have come to ask whether, as members of the EU over the past 40 years, we really have gone to the dogs. ‘We want our country back’: a visit to the most Eurosceptic and Europhile places in the UK 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In the end, Monday’s top prizes went to the dogs belonging to Punjabis living in North America; one of them, an electrical engineer, lives outside Detroit and raced a dog from West Virginia. Chasing the Lure of a Royal Past With Greyhound Racing in Punjab 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The Northern Station was going to the dogs. Tram 83, the Congolese novel that's wowing the literary world - extract 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Judging by some of the heavy action in the world of biotechnology, one could easily conclude that the industry is going to the dogs. Biotechnology Turns to the Furred and Four-Legged 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z A flood of complaints echoes him: "London's going to the dogs!" The map that saved the London Underground 2014-01-10T01:10:43Z Some people who live in Paris, France, want just a little bit more of their city to go to the dogs. Some want Paris to go to the dogs 2013-06-10T21:10:43Z The nearest Waterstones is a 10-minute walk away in Notting Hill, an outlet its former owner would occasionally visit when it was managed by – and, as he saw it, going to the dogs, at speed. Tim Waterstone: 'If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it' 2013-04-09T17:21:30Z He traces that anger back to the start of the recession when it appeared to be business as normal for the public sector as the rest of the economy went to the dogs. Public sector job cuts dragging down US's already fragile economic recovery 2012-05-31T21:20:43Z I saw it too, and I wonder what good the chap thinks he is doing by making out that we have gone to the dogs. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z The men who think the country is going to the dogs are themselves to be found, for the most part, lolling in the clubs. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z He has some fresh folly in his head, and Ettersberg may go to the dogs for anything he cares. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z Its motto is, The Exchanges must be honoured, though honour and morality may go to the dogs. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Let the visible go to the dogs—what matters?” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The whole country is going to the dogs financially and domestically, in fact, and you are much better off where you are. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z If I leave, the whole country will go to the dogs.” The Lede Blog: Glimpses of Maldives Unrest on YouTube 2012-02-09T16:48:34Z It is the only way to find any time to read—and my reading was going to the dogs. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z "The service is going to the dogs," he said. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z And so the Obama campaign, like the Newt Gingrich campaign before it, has gone to the dogs. Pet Lovers for Obama: The President's Latest Campaign 'Dog Whistle' 2012-01-31T21:35:39Z What with his sneering mouth and his green eyes—oh, 'tis enough to make a fellow go to the dogs to have a brother like it, 'pon my soul it is! The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z "Yes, the country, and especially this city is going to the dogs, and I think I'll leave it!" When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z I did; but I fancied there was the making of a fine man in him, and I felt that it was a shame to see a chap go to the dogs. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z "And your officers, sir?" suppressing with difficulty an explosion of wrath at what he considered a fresh sign that the service was going to the dogs. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z He talks as though, were it not for this theistic belief, everything would go to the dogs; and universal, moral, social and political chaos would come. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z The farm will go to the dogs now that long-headed farming-man is gone. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z He’s getting bad news every day from home; his affairs may be going to the dogs. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z He would have gone to the dogs, speedily, Mr. Flint said, but for his association with himself. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z As long as he could appear half-way decent, I was willing to carry my end, but he’s going to the dogs now too fast for me. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z The country will never go to the dogs as long as we have these young fellows to fall back upon. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z I heard some chorus girls of the old school complain in a café one night that "what with these Conservatorium girls cutting the screws the profession is going to the dogs." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Then, of course, we all agree that the service is going to the dogs, that the Sepoys are over-indulged and will some day give us a lot of trouble. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z This remedy for poisoning is often used in prescriptions; so even doctors sometimes "go to the dogs" for instructions. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z She had been going to the dogs of late, it was plain to see. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Heresy and paganism may prevail, the light of science be quenched, the country go to the dogs, pictures go unpainted, and statues unmoulded till he has saved this fish. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The Republicans said the country always went to the dogs and dried up when the Democrats elected a President. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z If this sort of thing goes on, the whole State must go to the dogs. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z To bring the invisible full into daylight, what matters if the visible go to the dogs? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z All at once he left his situation, and rapidly went to the dogs. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z One could imagine a school, and there are some of the kind, which only cares about producing graduates, without thinking of what will become of them in life, even if they go to the dogs. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Mark my words, Tom, the Country’s going to the dogs. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z He had word in the mail from Cale last night, and according to his account everything is going to the dogs at Lamoral. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Either he had fallen in love with her or she had bewitched him—in short, he went to the dogs. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z "So, smuggling, like everything else, has gone to the dogs," said Christian, with another grim smile. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z His neighbors are dishonest, church members are hypocrites, public officials are, in his estimation, all rascals, law makers are corrupt, and the country is going to the dogs. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z Didn’t I tell you the Country was going to the dogs! King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z The squire-like head of the household wondered dully why any man should quit a place where he could “get on” to seek a precarious livelihood in a land which was “rapidly going to the dogs.” The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z "What with diner � la Russe, crinoline, and pale sherry," he said one day, "England is fast going to the dogs." Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z His business—Long Island real estate—had been allowed to go to the dogs. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The man, unable to get another job and in the clutch of his vice, had gone to the dogs, applying frequently to Harland for help. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z The mining is all going to the dogs. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z At least that was what old Tomkins said, for Cheeseman’s going to the dogs was really going back to London to his friends, till he could obtain another situation as assistant. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z But dear me, I’d toiled so over it, getting it thawed and fixed for papa’s supper, that I hated to see it literally go to the dogs. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z If there was much game of your sort, the sport of hunting would go to the dogs. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z Apparently he would suggest that they literally go to the dogs. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Yes, he has always trusted me, and I’m growing old in his service, and I can’t bear to see things going to the dogs. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z Why, did not Cheeseman, his assistant, set up in opposition after a quarrel, and go to the dogs in three months? Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z I’m not going to the dogs nearly as fast as the old man believes. Guilt of the Brass Thieves 2011-01-04T03:01:18.213Z I care not if you are the most long-suffering peer that ever went to the dogs, or if you are the greatest villain that ever tried to dodge the gallows. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z On the retail end, more and more companies traditionally known for human products are going to the dogs, and cats, and reptiles, according to the APPA. How to Start a Pet Care Business 2010-10-19T08:43:00Z Throwing in the towel and screaming, "It's all gone to the dogs!" is the easy way out. Response: Cheats have always existed in sport ? it's no reason to lose the faith 2010-10-11T23:04:00Z Even the dogs has gone to the dogs. Sportism: a faith in tatters 2010-09-26T20:30:00Z The notion that the Philippines is country going to the dogs only becomes that, a self-fulfilling prophecy, if none of its citizens take part in preventing it. 2010-01-22T19:22:00Z "Unless a miracle happens, the fine harvest will go to the dogs." The Undying Past “Thought he was a decent fellow once, but he’s regularly going to the dogs.” Lady Maude's Mania "If I'm to do that the whole thing will go to the dogs." Rachel Ray What I thought about you—that the Failing line had gone to the dogs. The Voice of the Pack "By George, Lightnut, we are getting to a pass with politics where party organization is going to the dogs—don't you think so, eh?" The Haunted Pajamas Does he think that literature went to the dogs when Thackeray wrote about puppydom? Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" My lectures are gone to the dogs, and are utterly forgotten. Springtime and Other Essays Pip-Emma told the story after taps and in such gory detail that the Penguins didn't know or care that discipline was going to the dogs. The Underpup "You can go to the dogs," said the Gopher. Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 He had a terrible philosophy, everything was going to the dogs. The Shadow There was a feeling in Shady Dale that Silas was permitting his son to go to the dogs; whereas, as a matter of fact, no detective was ever more alert. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction That his career was going to the dogs Fane understood, but he did not care. Bye-Ways Mrs. Hammond was miserable, and Mrs. Jackson was breaking her heart, and the business of both houses was going to the dogs, when Hannah resolved on a last effort to avert the impending ruin. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Indeed he seemed more austere than ever, especially as his adopted son had risen instead of going to the dogs, as he had prophesied. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War It was of small consequence that the man himself went to the dogs, if only his soul was saved. The Making of a Country Parish Annie, after he had been put in jail, went to the dogs on her own account rather faster than when they made a team. The Children of the Poor "I didn't know whether you'd worry your head one way or another about it, or care twopence whether I went to the dogs or not!" The Head Girl at the Gables Perhaps our mechanized civilization is going to the dogs; as Scriven suspects and you and maybe I myself. The Brain Take Milly and the boys with you and leave me to go to the dogs where I belong.' The Land of Long Ago Of course I could let the whole thing slide, and the property go to the dogs; but no man has a right to do that. Rossmoyne But you know, Jack," he remonstrated feebly, "there isn't anything new in saying the nation's going to the dogs. Old Crow “I suppose he thought that after he discharged me I would go to the dogs.” Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone Shows how the country is going to the dogs. The Brain I don't reflect; I'm putting on my cap anyhow, and my hands are going to the dogs. A Diary Without Dates Without me you would have gone to the dogs or you might have become one of those novelists whom no one reads! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature And the others present take comfort and are convinced that the Old Country is a long way from going to the dogs as yet. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations In the opinion of those competent to judge, the state of Alleghenia was going to the dogs. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel Nobody describes better the process of going to the dogs. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Has he––gone to the dogs with drink and gambling? The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country One of those poor devils who take to journalism, and usually end by going to the dogs. Name and Fame A Novel Instead of wearing brocade he had to wear cotton, and instead of riding horseback he went to the dogs. The Chinese Fairy Book This country'll go to the dogs if we make an exempt class of our returned soldiers. The Million-Dollar Suitcase The officials in Washington were just sitting there letting everything go to the dogs! Highacres Since she left, the dishes haven’t been washed; my work has run down at the heels, and everything is going to the dogs generally. The Strollers He would have gone to the dogs long ago if it had not been for her. Name and Fame A Novel The Government of 1874 and the next Liberal Cabinet went to the dogs on liquor. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule I sure thought, tho’, he would go to the dogs. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Bring him down here, will you, and see he doesn’t go to the dogs? Whispering Smith Valentine would long ago have come to regard it as a clear proof that the runaway had really stolen the watch, and not have been surprised to hear that he had gone to the dogs. Soldiers of the Queen There'd be all my money gone to the dogs, or, what amounts to the same thing, into the hands of the Yankees. Marcy The Blockade Runner She doesn't care about Addington as we do, but she hates to see old traditions go to the dogs. The Prisoner He was just on the verge of losing everything again, and going to the dogs last winter, when a fine old chum of his sent him a haul of money. Treasure Valley And it cost pounds and pounds, and I've spent all my allowance, and so I can't buy another, and my complexion will go to the dogs. Daisy's Aunt To go to the Jews means to go to the dogs. The Tale of Timber Town I shall try to be like them when I grow up, and not always talk about politics and the way the army is going to the dogs. Oswald Bastable and Others I know I might as well let the estate go to the dogs as try and improve it. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Their families might starve, their business might go to the dogs, but the vengeance of the Government must be satiated. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge "Tut, tut, if I've got to give some work to every young man that does you a favour, my business will be gone to the dogs in a month." The End of the Rainbow He really scolded and said the country would go to the dogs, and I was sorry that I knew so little about politics. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls When women get to fooling with business, we shall all go to the dogs. Making People Happy I can't afford you more than a little while longer, for my practice is going to the dogs already. Merry-Garden and Other Stories He ran his eyes over it and muttered audibly: "Let him go to the dogs, then, if he wishes to do so." The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story One can't see the whole thing go to the dogs after it has kept its head up so long! Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite They seemed to have thought not only that the country was fast going to the dogs, but that under all the circumstances, it did not much matter. Lord John Russell We thought he would just go to the dogs after he left there, for he started to drink heavily. That Girl Montana “The club’s going to the dogs!” said the Colonel, with a hearty oath. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories "Ah!" exclaimed my comrade scornfully, "the truth is, it is every man for himself and the country can go to the dogs." My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France "If you are not there at the time I fix, I will pay nothing, and the name may go to the dogs." Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite A whole herd of cattle gone to the dogs! The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers Major Forsyth told his story at great length, finishing up with the assertion that if the army wasn't going to the dogs, he didn't know what going to the dogs meant. The Hero It’s too good a country to go to the dogs. Across the Mesa He suggested rather a curate who had gone to the dogs. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands The prince is still living, but he has squandered everything, drinks, and has quite gone to the dogs. The Light Shines in Darkness With a gesture of 'the country's going to the dogs,' Farnborough opened the doors and closed them behind him. The Convert He would have said the business was going to the dogs!’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster I call it the meanest thing I ever heard of, and shows that Torrington's is going to the dogs, masters and all. That Scholarship Boy "Who's yon tatterdemalion flinging by the newspaper and bawling, 'The country's going to the dogs?'" A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time What, too, can be more expressive of a man being on the verge of ruin, than the common phrase, that "such a one is going to the dogs." Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. It was no wonder that he went to the dogs like his father before him, for the passage of every generation had made recovery more difficult. The Tragic Bride Everybody going to the dogs in motor cars with manicure girls out of their parents' pockets—! The Dark Tower We don't mean to let the school go to the dogs to please anybody,' said Curtis lazily. That Scholarship Boy When I came out of it, everything went to the dogs, for my shop was sold to cover my debts. The Comedienne His uncle, Gregory, was sure that all things were going to the dogs, since a so-called Tory leader had become an advocate for household suffrage, and real Tory gentlemen had condescended to follow him. Ralph the Heir If the fishing's going to the dogs and the farming going to the deuce, don't be tossing head over tip at the tail of the tourist. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 At any rate, I was in a towering passion; thought the whole business was going to the dogs for want of discipline, wanted to dismiss every man in the warehouse. The Merryweathers When everything seemed to have "gone to the dogs," and his last suit of clothes was out at the elbows, she astonished him by getting a new suit. Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. No wonder that men, when they "go to the dogs," go to Paris. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Did he mean to go to the dogs? Ralph the Heir "Woe is me," says the greedy Gaul, Bonaparte, "I shall have to be off through the Alps and go to the dogs." William Pitt and the Great War Their elders declared that the country was going to the dogs, that in fact it was no longer fit for gentlemen to live in. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe Well, my men, that says a great deal in favor of improving property, and not letting it go to the dogs. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 On Going "to the dogs" I always secretly wonder what people mean when they say they are "going to the dogs." Over the Fireside with Silent Friends If a man has it in him he'll go to the dogs anyhow. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility But respectable people would have nothing to do with him, and he went to the dogs altogether—had to be buried on charity when he died. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 General Saxton agreed with me that if there is no more earnestness and sincerity among other army officers than among the specimens we have had here, we should all go to the dogs. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) It certainly did look as if Loman was going to the dogs. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Let life and youth go to the dogs, we shall not move. The Cycle of Spring "It's enough to make a chap go to the dogs and enjoy himself: blest if it isn't!" The Privet Hedge As a young man he had fought with credit in the Mexican war; later he had left the army, and seemingly gone to the dogs. A History of the United States "That boy is going to the dogs just as fast as he can go," said Mr. Jaffrey, with a woful face. Miss Mehetabel's Son Do you know I think that fellow is going to the dogs altogether?” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story The nation is not going to the dogs. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women The one who appears to be in the worst condition is the son of Warren Hatch, the banker, and his associates are helping him go to the dogs as fast as possible. Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win The Indians mutilated that tomb; but Lieutenant Gilman, in charge of the marines attached to the Adams, restored it; and he, with his men, did much toward preserving Sitka from going to the dogs. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska The country's going to the dogs, and a man isn't safe in his own house! At the Point of the Sword Without brains, business would go to the dogs, for if business were conducted by men of birth and boodle without brains, you can easily see that the whole fabric would fall to pieces. Dollars and Sense He will know how the country should be governed, and why it is going to the dogs, why this piece of legislation is good and that bad. Human Traits and their Social Significance Everybody agrees that our little city is going to the dogs; that municipal affairs were never so muddled as now. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day Candidates shall not vote for themselves; nor stump the valley proclaiming at the top of their lungs that they alone can keep the country from going to the dogs. If You Touch Them They Vanish Now don't look so indifferent, for, remember, if he goes to the dogs, it will be you who has driven him there. Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story At times it was rather slow, and our regiment has somehow gone to the dogs of late. Molly Bawn Now his business has gone to the dogs, and his home has become a den. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn The town is going to the dogs—or rather, to the demagogues. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day He was a little afraid the world was going to the dogs! The Wind Bloweth If I were to bring about his expulsion, and he went to the dogs, I might blame myself for it, thinking he would have done differently had he remained here. Frank Merriwell's Races If the Works go to the dogs, all right, but you shall be obeyed! Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls How can you expect me to keep quiet, Enoch, when my business is all going to the dogs for want of attention? Post Haste To this man politics becomes a desperate gamble, and the country's interests can go to the dogs so long as he can ensure re-election. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn The puzzle Chaplin fogs; 'Tis plain that Party loyalty Is going to the dogs! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 But nowadays the service is going to the dogs.” Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East "I shall not desert the Emperor even if everything goes to the dogs," wrote the irate father. Heroes of Modern Europe “It wouldn’t be a bad thing for some of us to see him, and put it to him, that the school would go to the dogs to a dead certainty if he was captain.” The Willoughby Captains I was going to the dogs fast enough when Cruden came here; I pulled up then, because I thought he’d stand by me; but now he’s gone and forgotten all about me. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life You stayed in London long enough to go to the dogs, I understood you to say?” Roger Ingleton, Minor His son’s money, like the lad himself, went to the dogs, and left me decidedly out of pocket by my term of guardianship. A Dog with a Bad Name But somehow I’ve no fancy for seeing a fellow going to the dogs out of sheer folly. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life “You schoolhouse fellows think, as long as you get well looked after, Willoughby may go to the dogs.” The Willoughby Captains I was bound to go to the dogs if I’d gone on as I was much longer.” Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life And if the kid is going to the dogs, we can’t connect it with Pledge, any more than we can with Winter himself.” Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton But when all this has been granted, why should one talk as if everything were going to the dogs? By the Christmas Fire In fact, what’s the use of my being up here at all, when I only get into rows, and spend one half of my time going to the dogs and the other in pulling up?” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life “He was precious near going to the dogs altogether if old Riddell here hadn’t pulled him up.” The Willoughby Captains You’re going to tell me you’re deceived in me, and that I’m a young fool and going to the dogs as hard as I can. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life "O friend, whatever good thou mayest have done from thy very birth, all will go to the dogs, if thou speak an untruth." India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Fond of him? why, I would sooner have given my forefinger than that he should have gone to the dogs.” Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife “Well,” said I, “that’s better than me, who spend all my time in going to the dogs.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life The team, his team which he had built up with such care last year, was going to the dogs, and he craved sympathy from Bill about it. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life If this was the sort of discipline they used to keep in his regiment, I don't wonder that the service is going to the dogs. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm I suppose there was such dancing and general devilment in Macedonia that every one said the younger generation had gone to the dogs since the war, and the world would never amount to anything again. Gigolo Why, the parish is already going to the dogs! My New Curate A fellow couldn’t go to the dogs, you know, all among the cows, and pigs, and horses—that is,” added he, laughing, “not the sort of dogs I mean.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Runjeet Singh41 is a proof of this; his formidable power will certainly go to the dogs, though the Sikhs have a social link which does not exist in the Egyptian concern. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 Then prose improves the more poetical it becomes; but verse, the moment it becomes prosaic, goes to the dogs. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Even Mr Vavasor could not tell his grandson that he was going to the dogs because he had become temperate. Can You Forgive Her? Well, then," said he,—for this interruption rather nettled him,—"to be very plain with you, your parish is going to the dogs. My New Curate When we wish a man to be devoured, we tell him to "go to the dogs." History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Take a lie into your business, as sleeping partner, try to live and prosper in that connection, and, some time, you and your business will go to the dogs together. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 To "go to the dogs," is spoken of as being just about the worst thing that can happen to a poor fellow. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match The business would have gone to the dogs had it not been for his heroic daughter, who not only looked after the household, but managed the mill and shop as well. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Ah, me; well, everything seems to be going to the dogs. Phineas Redux As for George Tresslyn, he was going to the dogs as rapidly and as accurately as possible. From the Housetops But the enterprise failed for want of funds to finish it, and Dogtown went to the dogs, and the Chapman family to Nyack. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family I wish from my heart, that some selfish persons whom I could name would go to the dogs. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match But you don't think that I am likely to go to the dogs? The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. The Sport of the Gods This was the girl who refused to go to the dogs at the earnest behest of the redoubtable Mrs. Tresslyn. From the Housetops I knew when you went to the dogs after you failed in your mine, just as well as you did yourself. The Debtor A Novel When my time was done I would have 'listed again; but just at that my father died and the Jennifer acres were like to go to the dogs, lacking oversight. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The country was going to the dogs because merchantmen were not compelled by law to carry guns. Romance Are we actually going to the dogs, or is it merely that the Club kidneys are going to the devil? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 If only the Captain had brought the two Marjories for a cruise, he would have shipped with him for a month, and have let business go to the dogs. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Now," said he, when we had lighted our pipes, "I'll tell you why I'm going to the dogs. Arms and the Woman You will say to yourself: 'She was that sort of woman, she had that sort of disposition, she was bound to go to the dogs, anyway!' A Lost Leader I had no idea that Oscar was going to the dogs, and that this represented a real degeneracy produced by his debaucheries. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 Let it go to the dogs for all I care! The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring There's that Toner, once a fine young fellow; I hate to see him going to the dogs, wasting his property, breaking his old mother's heart. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life He was not going to see her go to the dogs—no, not if he could help it; then she lost her temper and tried to push past him. Mike Fletcher A Novel He had systematically neglected it for years, he explained, and it had ended by going to the dogs. A Comedy of Masks A Novel "And Adrien Leroy would not go to the dogs so quickly, if you did not show him the way," murmured Shelton inaudibly, as Vermont departed, with the bland smile still hovering round his thin lips. Adrien Leroy He knew it had made him sick and that was enough for him, and what remained of the liver went to the dogs, when he was able to be about again. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Unhappy domestic circle, brooded over by a gloomy parent, who thinks that life is too short, or faith too much a matter of speculation, or that the country is going to the dogs! Lost Leaders Our theater, Covent Garden, is, we understand, going to the dogs. Records of a Girlhood Most men who do so go to the dogs next. The Measure of a Man "The newspaper business in this town is going to the dogs since the 'Clarion' changed hands," said Carney Ford, of the "Press," savagely. The Clarion With all his prayers and his sermons in church every Sunday, he'd let me go to the dogs rather than live out the truth. What Necessity Knows Then he went to the dogs--not all at once; men never do. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India They soon earned more money than they had ever earned by digging for gold, but on Saturday nights and Sundays they took their pleasure in the old style, and so they went to the dogs. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned At any rate, since the widower had re-married, the business had been going to the dogs. His Masterpiece Some croakers will tell you the Old Country is going to the dogs. Round the World in Seven Days If I kept it in my own hands, it would go to the dogs in a twelvemonth. Verner's Pride They'll say that manufacturing is going to the dogs, and capital's in worse distress than labor—" "How is it those big railroads get along? A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches And, I must tell you also this school has gone to the dogs; there are some very bad boys here--the Boyles and the Blakes. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned But then I'm so funny If he'd give up the money, He might go to the dogs with himself and his "Honey." The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems I don't believe she ever will go to the dogs while she's got left a man of the old, honourable, and respected name of Smith. Round the World in Seven Days When you search for facts you may sometimes go to high sources, but when you read fiction you go to the dogs. The Colossus A Novel "You think the old man's got past running his own business, and if you don't want your money to go to the dogs you must look after it yourself." Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Scraps went to the dogs, who were for once well fed. The Silent Places Then they wonder that the country is going to the dogs. The Inheritors They are busy informing the world that the British Drama is going to the dogs, and that no promising young dramatist ever gets a fair chance. Second Plays It was evident that his old college chum was going to the dogs anyway, but come whatever would, he, Geary, was going to be a success. Vandover and the Brute I suppose the Daily Mail will scream, but, thank God, this country has not quite gone to the dogs yet. Simon Called Peter The old captain thought at first that we were going to the dogs, and, I think, kept up a kind of watch over our movements. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The Borders were evidently going to the dogs. Stories of the Border Marches People were better, times were more natural, and there is a grim satisfaction in predicting that the "world is going to the dogs." The Nervous Housewife But why should the Fishmongers thus publicly advertise themselves as "going to the dogs." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 19, 1891 "I tell you the country is going to the dogs," I heard the Colonel saying as he came into the house. The Light in the Clearing You will have to go to the dogs. New Tabernacle Sermons Does he think that literature went to the dogs when Thackeray wrote about puppydom? Miscellanies Six months ago, if I had found Folly out, I would have gone to the dogs, taken her on her own terms, and said good-by to honor and my word to dad. Through stained glass No more punishment, an end to discipline, the army gone to the dogs! The Downfall The beast was old and tough, so that most of his flesh went to the dogs, part of it being eaten on the spot, while the rest was packed on the sledges for future use. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Oh, Zephyrin, you are going to the dogs—you have left off going to church! A Love Episode Well, the short and the long of it is that Fenwick Major began to go to the dogs, the way you and I have seen a many go. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Only Cosgrave perhaps—poor, unlucky little Cosgrave—always hunting for happiness—breaking himself against life—going to the dogs for the sake of a rotten woman. The Dark House "I must be off to-morrow!" he said to himself with decision--"or my schools will go to the dogs!" Lady Connie The poorest qualities go to the dogs, and the best are reserved for bipeds. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life He is becoming too much of a rake; yes, I believe he's going to the dogs. A Love Episode Within one year the Indians went to the dogs. In the Footprints of the Padres Oh, I say, I wish I could want again like that—anything—to get drunk—to go to the dogs—anything in the world. The Dark House His mother's gone to the dogs and under her influence, the boy— DR. The Return of Peter Grimm A Commander-in-Chief will tell the old story about the Service going to the dogs; after which there will be an interval of ten minutes allowed for swearing and hiccuping. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series My lectures are gone to the dogs, and are utterly forgotten. Sydney Smith But those who have died in this battle of the bottles and the beer glasses have lost everything—self-respect, reputation, honor, everything; and they went to the dogs and their souls went to perdition. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler Very well, France is going to the dogs. Poor Relations I shall never forget the glorious occasions on which I wore a cavalry uniform, and induced some of my best friends to believe I had gone to the dogs and enlisted. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 Let the visible go to the dogs—what matters? Robert Browning "The service is going to the dogs," growled Page, "when they give away a lieutenant's uniform with a pound of tea!" Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis After his wife died, Bill, it seems, went to the dogs, followed his naturally shiftless bent, and, from a common vagrant, became a drunkard and common thief. The High School Boys in Summer Camp I remember that my business is going to the dogs at a muzzle velocity of about five thousand feet a second. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts Eat with him, drink with him, play cards with him, go to the dogs with him—no, what a pity you are married! Kimono He was much praised for it and was invited to join the staff of a newspaper; he gave up his post, went to Petersburg, divorced his wife, spent his money—and went to the dogs. Note-Book of Anton Chekhov He was going to the dogs, he declared; had lost all his hold on the public; and had nothing more to say or to paint. Fenwick's Career "That boy is going to the dogs just as fast as he can go," said Mr. Jaffrey, with a woeful face. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Well, the baking went to the dogs, or the Thanksgiving beggars, which is the same thing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 "The Brat has gone back to Oxford," I say, gloomily; "Bobby has gone to Hong-Kong, and Algy has gone to the dogs—or at least is going there as hard as he can!" Nancy There was Uncle Henrik, the youngest brother of Keith's father, who had gone to the dogs while still a youth, and in a more ignominious fashion, if possible. The Soul of a Child Shall I go back, and live after the same fashion, and let Tretton go to the dogs? Mr. Scarborough's Family Discipline speedily goes to the dogs and instruction becomes impossible. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) He will go to the dogs some day, and his estate will be sold. Bred in the Bone It is easy to say that farming is gone to the dogs, that corn is low, and stock uncertain, and rents high, and so forth. Hodge and His Masters His business went to the dogs, and when she'd milked him dry she laughed and slipped awa', and he never saw her again. Between You and Me Rapp, Senior, believed and said that the country was going to the dogs, because the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. The Wrong Twin And since she's gone looks like I'm gone too—gone to the dogs. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 Independence went to the dogs—for a while. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Whoever looks over such papers must, I should imagine, have seen some rum religions in his time; unless the Army is going to the dogs. All Things Considered "If anything has happened to him, the village will go to the dogs!" His Big Opportunity So the game's up, and you've changed, and we men can go to the dogs. The Nine-Tenths Of course, her voice went to the dogs long ago; but by dint of screeching and croaking she pulls through. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage The things with which my house was stocked went to the dogs. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti I think that very likely some of us—most of us—are going to the dogs. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. "The school's going to the dogs," he had complained. The Half-Back God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad. The Devil's Dictionary If the country doesn’t go to the dogs or the Radicals, we shall have you Prime Minister, some day. An Ideal Husband I don't so much mind for myself, but with a House of Peers with no grandfathers worth mentioning, the country must go to the dogs! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan I believe I have been confounding myself with the bad boy who "didn't care", and became food for lions—a grander kind of going to the dogs, I suppose. David Copperfield I wanted some thousands and you some hundreds, and without the money we were both in a fair way to go to the dogs together. The Woman in White I have but little use for men who must swing to the apron-strings of a public grand-dame or go to the dogs. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 "One boy a plum fool and dressed like it, the other gone to the dogs already!" The Conquest of Canaan They generally discover the world is "going to the dogs." The University of Hard Knocks Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it's an awful warning to the electors. Anne of Green Gables Well, as they have hung an hour and fifteen minutes to long as it is, I guess the Country won't go to the dogs if you shut that window until I get a shirt on. Bab: a Sub-Deb When I reflect that until within comparatively recent times women were slaves, I don't much wonder that the old civilizations went to the dogs—that the millennium is not yet due. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 "Then he must just go to the dogs," said Skinner. Black Beauty Why, Mr. Smith, that word "esquire" is gone to the dogs,—used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat. A Pair of Blue Eyes Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. Moon and Sixpence I don't pretend to be giving you good news; but I 'm telling the simple, literal truth, so that you may know why I have gone to the dogs. Roderick Hudson It is a difference of opinion that keeps the world from going to the dogs. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 And here, only the other day, his old partner, who had been going to the dogs ever since he went out of the business, came and borrowed twenty thousand dollars of him! The Rise of Silas Lapham Thus, in plain words, the book trade was going to the dogs, and it was the same with pretty nearly every other trade. The Damnation of Theron Ware Every thought of her mind was fixed upon Laurie; if he were saved she would be good; if not—if he indeed, the darling of her heart, went to the dogs—nothing mattered. Wild Kitty But if, by any chance, I were to go to the dogs—I shouldn't greatly care. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II If it wasn't for me you'd just go to the dogs. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Just now the country believed that it was going to the dogs. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories If it's true to life, which I don't believe, the next generation is going to the dogs. The Beautiful and Damned I thought you had fallen among thieves or something, or else gone to the dogs. Lo, Michael! "There's a perfectly good stew gone to the dogs." Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy Tell me something bad of Valentine Hawkehurst: that he's gone to the dogs, or drowned himself; that his wife has run away from him, or his house been burned to the ground. Charlotte's Inheritance Who cares if I go to the dogs? The Gray Dawn The man who would go to the dogs for lack of the woman he fancies, will go to the dogs when he has her—may possibly drag her to the dogs with him. Weighed and Wanting When a man starts in life by believing he is enormously rich, and can have everything he wants, he is pretty sure to go to the dogs. The Golden Calf Now he was dead and everything was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening. England, My England Now if everybody in Cattaraugus sulked off to read Plato, or to read 'The Three Guardsmen,' Cattaraugus would go to the dogs very fast, in its general sulkiness. How to Do It He drank continually, and he begged Ted Clarke to tell her, in a casual way, that he was going to the dogs on account of her treatment of him. Tales from Bohemia I was sure he had not gone to the dogs—no dog but a cur would receive him—without help!—Marriage and embezzlement! Weighed and Wanting The present purpose is to make it a library, in place of the fine old collection which went to the dogs. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I He was a man who could not go to the dogs. England, My England In his opinion the Argus was going to the dogs. The Face and the Mask The place was going to the dogs, everyone's temper was getting spoilt and they sent each other to the right about for the least word. L'Assommoir Drag them apart, and the child goes to the dogs and the mother to the devil. The Christian A Story "What's your hurry—Wall Street going to the dogs without you?" The Shadow of the East Well, then, she got in my way—I told you—and I let her go to the dogs. The History of David Grieve He would have gone to the dogs, if he could. Jean-Christophe, Volume I One thing, he is going to the dogs as fast as he can. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day He's going to the dogs, I think, and I'm sorry I met him…. Fan : the story of a young girl's life The country hasn't gone to the dogs yet. The Story of Sugar "Everything's going to the dogs!" cried poor Sir Clarence, with an oath; "and no gentleman, by ---, ought to condescend to exist!" Archibald Malmaison It's just like all the rest, Norrie—everything going to ruin—the whole place going to the dogs; and yet—and yet, colleen, it's about the sweetest bit of earth in all God's world. Light O' the Morning We be going to the dogs, 'tis plain. The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4. Edward went to the bees as he would have gone to the dogs—sadly. Gone to Earth The country was going to the dogs, and all because the government did not furnish money enough. A Florida Sketch-Book He went to the dogs, stirring them up with the cracking of his whip, and when Howland turned to look back he saw a bright flare of light where the other sledge had stopped. The Danger Trail We thought at one time, when the tower had been run up a considerable distance, that it was positively “going to the dogs.” Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston Ten dollars!—Ten dollars gone to the dogs as the result of his visit to the nabob that morning! Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville She wants a little encouragement to leave him, but she is afraid he will go to the dogs if she does. Happiness and Marriage Thirsty's going to the dogs, and I believe big Fletcher's got a lot to do with it. The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs We've got to take hold of this thing, Mr. Holmes, or the town will go to the dogs. The Winning of Barbara Worth A pack of hounds was once kept for general enjoyment in “New Preston;” but that pack has “gone to the dogs”—hasn't been heard of for years. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston In fact," said Clowes, getting up, "as was only to be expected, the school started going to the dogs directly I left. The White Feather Why should he go to the dogs and I go through life with the respect and approval of the world? Sleeping Fires: a Novel I shall sit up and pray every dark night you are out, and the whole place will go to the dogs, of course. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale I fear that he will go to the dogs. Barriers Burned Away After six years' hard riding and scant feeding, peradventure Richard Andrew would rather have had the hard cash than the poor brute, which by this time, probably, had died and gone to the dogs! The Coming of the Friars "I've known a good many traveling men who went to the dogs from too much treating," said he. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Dear me, how completely Oxford is going to the dogs. Philistia If Booth's memory served him right, the fellow came a cropper, so to speak, in trying to ride rough shod over public opinion, and went to the dogs. The Hollow of Her Hand They are losing ground everywhere; and if the United States does not take hold of this unhappy country it will certainly go to the dogs. Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 His menagerie may go to the dogs for all he cares, Jews and infidels, blacks and whites and all. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Of course, if he went to the dogs, he had nobody to blame but himself. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel "And if you, Polly Pepper, don't keep things bright, why, we shall all go to the dogs," said the old gentleman, sobering down. Five Little Peppers Midway "But Roman freedom and Roman manners were going to the dogs when Horace wrote." The Way We Live Now If on the contrary he is merely a vigorous representative of the old system pure and simple, the school will go to the dogs. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Poor old Armitage!—he promised to be a great artist once, but he's gone to the dogs by this time, I suppose. Innocent : her fancy and his fact She was resolved that everything was going to the dogs because Goarly's case had been refused. The American Senator For myself I am absorbed in dogs—gone to the dogs in fact—having been occupied in dissecting them for the last fortnight. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 "It's going to the dogs, I think;—about as fast as it can go." The Way We Live Now Why, he's been talking to me all the evening about the way in which everything is going to the dogs through advanced ideas in the younger generation. The Philanderer England's going to the dogs, that's where it is; no snug little sinecures left for chaps like you and me; all this beastly competition. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose There had been a conspiracy between them, and now everything might go to the dogs, and she would not lift up her hands again to save them. The American Senator If that's the only thing that will save me, I shall go to the dogs in spite of the—" "Don't swear, Mr. Graves. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life Whatever he had got was in that affair of Melmotte's, and that has gone to the dogs. The Way We Live Now Such a man, arriving almost penniless on Nepenthe, might have passed a torpid month or two, then drifted into the Club-set and gone to the dogs altogether. South Wind I shall have to take 'Arry away with me; I can't let him go to the dogs without another try to keep him straight. Demos He liked people to talk about him; he liked to know that it was deemed a pity for such a clever young fellow to go to the dogs. Thyrza Chaps that would go to the dogs if some woman didn't take them in hand. Ulysses I can't even ask the man to do me a kindness, with having an eye to these abominable affairs, that are all going to the dogs. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 The country was gone to the dogs when such as he was to be a peer! Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Everything is going to the dogs at my station. Mr. Hogarth's Will By Jove, you know," he said, with a wave of his hand, as though he were addressing the House; "the country is going to the dogs, and all that sort of thing. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab I daresay you recollect that I took Knut Brovik and his son into my employment—after the old man's business had gone to the dogs. The Master Builder Richard was declaring that trade had gone to the dogs, his takings dropped to a quarter of what they had formerly been. Australia Felix The mother looked at him, and after a pause answered in vexation: "Oh, well, let them go to the dogs!" Mother I had a talk with Wright this morning, and he tells me that young Baines, at Whitford, is going to the dogs, and the practice coming in to him. The Trial He complains brightly that he is hard up, and that if somebody or other at Westminster does not look out the country will go to the dogs. The Admirable Crichton How dare you tell me that the country is going to the dogs! Augustus Does His Bit But somebody in the family must take a practical view of affairs, or we should all go to the dogs.’ The Hand of Ethelberta "Well, if I went to the dogs I wouldn't go to Grand Hotels; but I'll tell you where I would go, Beauty." Under Two Flags Scholarship was at a low ebb, Dr. Hoxton seemed to have lost what power of teaching he had ever possessed, and as Dr. May observed, the poor old school was going to the dogs. The Trial It was four or five weeks hard work gone to the dogs. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) This country is going to the dogs, if you ask me. Augustus Does His Bit They drew up a couple of chairs to one of the tables of a wine-shop close by, and shouted to the waiter with the vigour of persons going to the dogs. The Hand of Ethelberta They had been credibly informed that an ancestor of plebeian Willowes was once honoured with intermarriage with a scion of the aristocracy who had gone to the dogs. A Group of Noble Dames "The service is going to the dogs," said Buggins to himself, as he put down the porter pot, and looked up over the book at a gentleman who presented himself at the door. Framley Parsonage Carrington replied that it was unlucky for Virginians that they had not done things in that way then: if they had, they would not have gone to the dogs. Democracy, an American novel He was dismissed from the department and went to the dogs. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon There was every chance of a Radical Government being returned, and the country going to the dogs. The Country House "I really don't care," said he, "to know what a woman feels when she is going to the dogs; it does n't interest me." The Island Pharisees This subject, however, for the present only, has gone to the dogs with me. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 If we make a move to separate from the British Museum, I cannot but fear that we may go to the dogs. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 He is getting bad news every day from home; his business is going to the dogs. The Pension Beaurepas She couldn't tell him, for the rest of her guests came in together; she only had time to say: "It SHA'N'T go to the dogs!" Nona Vincent "So that now your intention is to build such a great factory that all the others will go to the dogs?" The Man Who Was Afraid "If we must go to the dogs, for heaven's sake, let's go remembering that we are Blakes—or Corbins, if you like." The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Always," she continues, "I feel sorry when I see a fine young fellow going to the dogs. Through Russia If I told him he was going to the dogs he'd tell me to go to the devil. The Lost Road Mr. Boffin had been sure that British honour was going to the dogs and that British greatness was at an end. The Prime Minister "Country go to the dogs!" he said oracularly, still admiring his boots. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels The club was going to the dogs, along with the rest of the world. A Poor Wise Man Truth's gone to the dogs and they do what they please, and here we were guessing that you'd go free. Resurrection Very well, France is going to the dogs.... Cousin Pons The country seemed to be going to the dogs. The Financier, a novel I might have gone to the dogs, you know; but by when I had been in London a year a pretty clear purpose began to form in me. New Grub Street I guess George, maybe, is on the bum, or got roped in by some other girl, or maybe gone to the dogs on account of whiskey or the races. Options Except that he's the villain responsible for her going to the dogs. The Golf Course Mystery Rugby, and the Schoolhouse especially, are going to the dogs. Tom Brown's School Days Then he went to the dogs, blaming her because she had sense enough to throw him over where he belonged. A Master's Degree In such an admirable social order as ours, they were bound to go to the dogs. New Grub Street Say, you must of heard how Bud's going to the dogs. Cabin Fever |
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