"Just get yer sweetheart, May Walker," said I, softly, "to write twa lines to Simon Begley, or beagle, as they ca' him, the fiscal o' the shire, passin frae her charge against me; and ye'll be cried on Sabbath, afore the congregation meets, and Mrs Kennedy will never hear o't."
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
But upon finally reaching the highway, he increased his speed until he sighted the dust of the car; this he hung to like a beagle, but never once allowed the car itself to come into view.
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre
On her homeward voyage, the "beagle" visited Tahiti, Australia, and some of the coral-islands in the Indian Ocean, and Darwin had an opportunity of testing and verifying the conclusion at which he had arrived by studying the statements of other observers.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles