One would have pronounced them elegant grayhounds, circling, with inflated nostrils, round a poor woodland fawn, whom the glance of their master forbade them to devour.
On eût dit d’élégantes levrettes chasseresses tournant, les narines ouvertes, les yeux ardents, autour d’une pauvre biche des bois que le regard du maître leur interdit de dévorer.