The classic example is the bulldog, which was obviously designed for the old-fashioned and unpleasant activity of bull baiting.
We talk of the bulldog breed of our soldiers.
I have seen him on a number of occasions in far more of a bulldog mood than this afternoon.
Have those "boys of the bulldog breed" thought better of it?
Have you been chasing rats with a bulldog?
The dog—a finely developed bulldog—was neither tied nor muzzled.
We are now a toothless bulldog by deliberate intent; and although these cuts are right, let us not hide the effect that they have had.
I wonder if this boy of bulldog breed is here at present.
