The scruffy little mongrel in the pet shop window has a grand ambition - to be a guard dog.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

There was what we call mongrel forest, tall trees and thick brush underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy Blakely, Pathfinder] Reference

I am English, Irish, Portugese, Swedish, Duthch in other words a mongrel of sorts.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Genealogically he was classified as a mongrel cur, but genealogy, like the thermometer, does not always register correctly.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference

He was not weak because he was "mongrel" but because he sprang from bad stock on both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

"Well, now," says I, holding myself in, "I don't think the word 'mongrel' is one that comes at all well from a Creole lady.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash For Freedom]

The boys called him a "mongrel"; and neither the Federal nor Confederate commands of boy soldiery would allow him in their ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

A kind of mongrel zealot, sometimes very precise and peevish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference

It seems to me that this new four-ball game is a kind of mongrel mixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Golfer] Reference

Cries of "mongrel" and "thank you your honour" were also heard in the court room.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference

Yeah, 'mongrel', that's what I hear the people of this island are, people like me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Any one who asked the customer for extra money was considered a "mongrel", a begger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Ideas - Comments] Reference

However, I hope you don't mean to forsake it; that will be but a kind of mongrel cur's trick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference

The common perception of the definition of "mongrel" in American society is as it applies to dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gribbit's Word] Reference

The HTFU qualities of Stuey and the 'mongrel' in McEwen are widely applauded but not so much Cadel's eccentricities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Podium Cafe] Reference

"mongrel," and "gutter-dog," and sometimes, after my back is turned, they rush me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranson's Folly] Reference

Monte-Cristo I will kill him as I would a mongrel cur!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

She should never have gotten pregnant from this mongrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complicated Game] Reference

As the president put it, "We are sort of a mongrel people.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Dawkins: Obama and Race in America] Reference

Better again if you were a bit less maybe a mongrel but still.    From Wordnik.com.  [I A Dog] Reference

Doc replied, holding down his white beard and heavy on the mongrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Great Magic] Reference

It wasn't very big, not even as big as the hide of their mongrel Rex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference

It is not a homogeneous nation, but a vibrantly messed-up, mongrel one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana's Britain] Reference

            “Get off me, you little mongrel!” he growled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 12] Reference

I would be drawn to these completely mongrel-like, scrubby little places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love, Death, Light] Reference

The mongrel force, estimated at about 1200 strong, was commanded by Colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Young bucks riding about, horses grazing peacefully, mongrel dogs in profusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

Vile mongrel breeds of men multiply to astonish the ethnologist and the moralist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

The mongrel mixture of the Trade Center offends Osama bin Laden and his band of puritans.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Immigrant's Faith] Reference

And you're dealing with a government which is a mongrel mix of different blends and ideologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Clegg: We've released the inner Liberal in many Tories] Reference

Because we do have a motley, mongrel folklore here, and I was interested in it and collected it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Magic Moment] Reference

"The thing about African Americans in this country, we are actually a mongrel people," says Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack Obama on The View - as it happened] Reference

These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Quilt Of A Country] Reference