Sentence: To have a fellow going about the farm as cross with every body as a bear with a sore head, with a temper as sour as verjuice and as sharp as a razor, looking as surly as a butcher's dog, is a great nuisance and yet there may be some good points about the man, so that he may be a man for all that but poor, soft Tommy, as green as grass and as ready to bend as a willow, is nobody's money and every body's scorn.
Combination: a butcher's dog (root: dog, modifier: butcher)
Property: skilled
Property type: canceled