Quirk belongs to a band of literary weaklings, not any one of whom can do anything worth speaking of; but they try their best to write up one another; and sometimes they take it into their heads to help an acquaintance-and then their cry is like that of a pack of beagles?
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
"The view from the couronne didn't show me anything I wanted to see, only a number of men in the distance, spread out over the face of the causse and quartering it like beagles.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
Well, one night I was at Hillsborough on business, and, as I walked by the old parish church, a great pack of beagles, in full cry, passed close over my head.
"Put Yourself in His Place"
Charles Reade