War and Peace vocabulary

“In the first place, Trunila is not a ‘dog,’ but a harrier,” thought Nicholas,

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 07 (Book Seven)

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the industrious men of business of a former generation, who made their fortunes slowly, almost as the tracking of the fox belongs to the harrier,–it constituted them a "race," which is nearly lost in these days of rapid money-getting, when lavishness comes close on the back of want.

George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss