Item: A 3-year-old girl cringes against a building on West End Avenue as a black mastiff, sans owner and leash, barks furiously, its snout not two feet from her.

The four huge black mastiffs came to life, smashing their great muscular bodies against the grille, lips curled, white teeth flashing, jaws slavering.

From the pole hung four corpses; three of the great, black mastiffs and, in between them, his neck broken and twisted, eyes protruding, the body of Gyrth, their keeper.

Behind them was the wood Full of black female mastiffs, gaunt and fleet, As greyhounds that have newly slipp'd the leash.

He was biting at his pipe stem like a big, black, hairy mastiff chewing through its leash.

Before the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, a champion on the Scottish side, a huge man named Turnbull, accompanied by a huge black mastiff, approached the English host and challenged anyone to single combat.

While that is happening, Gil notices two black mastiffs that seemed to be chasing the man and later witnessing the accident.

There was a pack of them, great black mastiffs and lean wolfhounds and black-and-white sheepdogs and kinds Arya did not know, shaggy brindled beasts with long yellow teeth.

In the back of his throat, the officer made a faint growling noise, sounding very much like the black mastiff he'd left on the pavement outside.

One Sunday, he went hunting with his fierce black mastiffs, stopping only to swig at a flask of strong drink.