Sentence: The old man didn't go after him, and fight for four years, at a cost uv half his substance, to subdue him and bring him back, but when he hed run through his pile, and squandered his share uv the estate, and got hungry, he came back like a whipped dog.
Combination: a whipped dog (root: dog, modifier: whip)
Property: helpless
Property type: emergent