How To Use Brindled In A Sentence
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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.
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It is tethered to a tree, a rangy, brindled, flop-eared, devil-eyed billy that could have been a regimental mascot.
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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
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It is of a bluish colour -- hence the name, and "brindled," or striped along the sides.
Popular Adventure Tales
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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
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The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
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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
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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
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His brindled hide had lost its luster, the short hair mottled by patches of dried blood.
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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
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The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
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Steve is approached by a man who wants to buy Mike to fight against a big brindled pit bull.
Collecting My Thoughts for the Moment (scratching my head and doing my best James Dean)
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The elegance of his appearance was only slightly marred by the great brindled feline perched on his knee.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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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
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In the shape of their bodies and tails, in their general ground colour, and in the "brindled" or tiger-like stripes that could be perceived upon their cheeks, neck, and shoulders.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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Over the 3 years of the series’ life, Leigh-Pemberton covered such diverse creatures as kangaroos, yapoks, banana arts, brindled gnus, wapiti and chamois (the latter gaining much fame as a highly effective window-cleaner)
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The person indicated was the one Jarvis had thought of as ` brindled " the night before.
A DEATH IN TIME
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Lirael always said hello to the visiting dogs, even when they were huge brindled wolfhounds with studded collars.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
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Within the last two days they had also observed that the gnoo was not of the same sort as the one which they had seen so long, but a variety which Swinton told them was called the brindled gnoo; it was, however, in every other respect the same animal, as to its motions and peculiarities.
The Mission
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The dog Eli showed her was an ugly thing with wiry brindled hair and a squint.
The Bread of Ruth’s Unhappiness « A Fly in Amber
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The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange; that of the cat creature too.
