Sentence: If we passed through a thicket, we were sure to be met by a discharge of bullets if we dismounted from our horses to take our hurried and scanty meal, we found some of them shot at the inndoor if we flung ourselves, as tired as hounds after a chase, on the straw of a village stable, the probability was that we were awakened by finding the thatch in a blaze.
Combination: hounds after a chase (root: hound, modifier: chase)
Property: tired
Property type: emergent