brindled

How To Use brindled In A Sentence

• We well recollect one fine brindled fellow, called 'Nero,' who, during his kittenhood, 'purred' the following epistle to a little girl who had been his playmate: -- Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
• It is tethered to a tree, a rangy, brindled, flop-eared, devil-eyed billy that could have been a regimental mascot.
• All chatted together for a minute, looking down at the ring, which Vivillo was just leaving with the big, brindled _cabestro_. The Car of Destiny
• It is of a bluish colour -- hence the name, and "brindled," or striped along the sides. Popular Adventure Tales
• Apparently his foible was a fondness for cats; one of them, a superb brindled Persian cat, is a great beauty, and seems a particular favourite. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
• The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
• All the farmyard life was wonderful there, -- bantams, speckled and topknotted; Friesland hens, with their feathers all turned the wrong way; Guinea fowls that flew and screamed and dropped their pretty spotted feathers; pouter pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a wonderful brindled dog, half mastiff, half bulldog, as large as a lion. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
• He's about fifty and he wears huge spectacles with thick tortoiseshell frames to them, like a pair of brindled goggles. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
• His brindled hide had lost its luster, the short hair mottled by patches of dried blood.
• In colour it was a kind of brindled red, and the hair on its back grew against the lie of the rest of its coat. Prester John