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What does "hell-hound-loosing" here mean in this sentence? the “sneer of cold command” would suit any of the raging, gorging, hell-hound-loosing rulers depicted in “Queen Mab”,
Sep 17, 2014 9:29 AM
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The phrase is, "let loose the hounds of hell", meaning to commence battle. So a hell-hound-loosing ruler is a warmonger.
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