Adjective : a black-and-tan musical revue of the 1920s. From Dictionary.com.
Several years ago a gentleman was presented with a black-and-tan terrier. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
But I had my dog with me, such a dear little thing, a black-and-tan terrier. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia de Noël] Reference
He stopped on the face of a young man dressed in roustabout's black-and-tan. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
Curled up in the warm lined basket were three black-and-tan puppies, toy spaniels. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
He noted a large black-and-tan Rottweiler bounding through the thick privet hedges. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
"A black-and-tan collie with a blue-ribbon round his neck, and a saucy look on his face.". From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
With a few more staccato yelps, the shivering black-and-tan retreated behind the gambler's legs. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Sourmelina insisted on getting a porter to carry their suitcases to the car, a black-and-tan Packard. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
A minute later a huge black-and-tan body catapulted from the thicket into the open space of the trail. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
She opened her eyes, and found a dainty little black-and-tan terrier standing up, with its forepaws on the couch, looking at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
As he stepped up and entered the hatch, Bunsome bumped into a Montagne wearing the roustabout's black-and-tan robes. ity, looked back. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
He had put his dear black-and-tan head on Antony's knee. From Wordnik.com. [The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel] Reference
Highest cash prices paid for slips of black-and-tan foliage plants. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
Then, "Lie down, Turk," to a black-and-tan Hound that came growling out. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned] Reference
In the flat across the hall from us lived a lady with a black-and-tan terrier. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Million] Reference
My Newfound - land would flcom to be seen making a drive at a black-and-tan terrior. From Wordnik.com. [Libellus: or, A Bried Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham] Reference
One of these was a Polish countess, who took with her a little black-and-tan terrier. From Wordnik.com. [What a Young Woman Ought to Know] Reference
And Jess, the wiry black-and-tan, is the favorite of the men of of the Derwent and Dove. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
All the black-and-tan terriers had their ears so cut as to make them very sharp and pointed. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated] Reference
ROGeR - a black-and-tan pup with big ears and large paws - was "my little man," Gail Wells said. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE] Reference
One day I touched noses with the black-and-tan in the hall, and I struck him for an elucidation. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Million] Reference
Caledonian Champion meeting of April, 1860, and was "marked precisely like a black-and-tan terrier.". From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
The little black-and-tan lady, Parson Leggy used to say, had been the only thing on earth M'Adam cared for. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
He could have given them both away quite easily if he had not been the most forgiving of black-and-tan collies. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
The four men sauntered up the path from the shore, Tommy bringing up the rear with the little black-and-tan terrier. From Wordnik.com. [In Exile and Other Stories] Reference
And then a dog walked into the room where they sat -- a black-and-tan hound, long-eared, lazy, confident of welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
The dining area is filled with natural light coming from the many windows dressed in black-and-tan checkered curtains. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It ended in the letter disappearing around the corner of the house, being fast held in the jaws of a small black-and-tan dog. From Wordnik.com. [The Tangled Threads] Reference
• Boulevard Thunderclouds (a black-and-tan made with a pour of Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat under a pour of Boulevard Dry Stout). From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
Closely allied varieties, however, sometimes differ in this respect; thus Mr. Hodgson states that the black-and-tan Lassa variety of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
We then began to make active preparations for the introduction of the strawberry-roan two-cent stamps and the black-and-tan postal note. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
He cheerfully limps up the hill in his big felt slippers, his wife carrying the lunch basket, and a tiny black-and-tan English dog called. From Wordnik.com. [A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914] Reference
For while I, when I'm washed for a fight, am as white as clean snow, she -- and this is our trouble, she -- my mother, is a black-and-tan. From Wordnik.com. [Ranson's Folly] Reference
They might scrub, and they might rub, and they might pipe-clay, but they couldn't pipe-clay the insides of me, and they was black-and-tan. From Wordnik.com. [Ranson's Folly] Reference
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