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. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
It is of a bluish colour -- hence the name, and "brindled," or striped along the sides. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
An 'beside him on the splashboard sat a brindled tarrier pup. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference
There's OTTO, of the brindled beard, RUSSELLIUS swift of tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892] Reference
The brindled Saluki sat, panting and bleeding, by the tiger's side. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
My brindled ewe -- (no hand but mine shall touch it) -- to my dear. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
The dun, the brindled, and the dark, and blends the bright its shine. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
His long leather coat was brindled with cracks and dappled with stains. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
A fine brindled cow with a large udder was attached to the cart behind. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
A young brindled cat trotted away, its belly distended with unborn kittens. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
I do not know how far he had gone when just before him he saw a brindled cow. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
The cat's fur was definitely not brindled, but it was not definitely anything else. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Search]
“Tab” had a reference to the cat, “Tabby” being the term for a brindled cat. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
He had even gone with her when she went to pick up her dog, a large brindled Doberman. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
It was brindled black and white with quick, inquisitive eyes and large triangular ears. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
He watched the little brindled desert doves come stooping in under the dull rose light. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
The trees are columns of slick brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown beyond all reason. From Wordnik.com. [sunwillrise Diary Entry] Reference
His coat is brindled, dark brown and black -- just like Magic's -- and fine as the softest satin. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
I stared in horror as the brindled body slid away from me and lay prostrate once more on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Favourite Dog Stories]
The man was large, raw-boned and brindled, and he, also, walked in, complacently and condescendingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
There are a great many different kinds of cows; some red, some black, some brindled, white or spotted. From Wordnik.com. [The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations] Reference
RK, whose given name was Roadkill, was a huge brindled black and gray, very furry, Makahomian Temple Cat. From Wordnik.com. [First Warning]
Trotting behind them came the large brindled cat we had brought from Egypt on our last expedition but one. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
“The company coming, and the accident to the brindled cow, was all the news I had to take to the farm.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
There was the whole quarry bed, a wide garden white and dimmed, brindled with dark bushes, lying half submerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: alert; mission; dejected; besmeared; brindled; docile; relaxed; crestfallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
The little dog is a limp bunch of brindled satin this morning, wrapped in flannel, but we hope he will soon be well. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Without changing the attitude he found himself in when he hit the ground, the brindled dog went on with his luncheon. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
However, the flood was there before me, and the wall of water dashed on to the plains, with a brindled comb behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
He saw the brindled, scraggly cat huddling behind the thorns of the overgrown rosebush, watching the food with lambent eyes. From Wordnik.com. [What Dreams May Come]
Aari asked, though the cat sitting on his chest was not quite as large, nor brindled gray as his old friend from the Condor. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Search]
When the moose stepped delicately out of the greenery-spindled legs, brindled back, bulbous nose-Daniel's heart had started to race. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
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