"Oh, everyone knows that Everard is a regular sleuth-hound," said Tommy.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
And no wonder: with Sir John Elliot pining away his life in a prison; with the wrongs of Lenthall, and Lilburne, and Prynne unavenged; with men walking the streets deprived of their ears, and outraged by other mutilations; with Holtspur himself, whom Sir Marmaduke now knew to be the noble patriot Henry -, an outlawed fugitive, hiding himself from the sleuth-hounds of a spited queen!
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
It was not hard with the help of the sleuth hounds who always gather round the despot, to find plausible grounds of accusation.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill