Rice v. Cayetano involved a state law that distinguished between people who had some Native Hawaiian ancestry and those who were full or half-blooded Native Hawaiians for purposes of state-run elections. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
He was still calling himself Jett Walking Tall back then, half-blooded Sioux and proud of it, a beaded choker around his throat, raven hair long and loose except for one strand he'd braided with a buckskin thong and a single eagle feather. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Blood]
Iranians are a major community in US where there are lots of Iranian-American half-blooded citizens country-wide and of course they would be among the main catalysts that enforce the cabinet of President Obama to apply some basic "metamorphosis" in his performance, rhetoric and approach toward Iran. From Wordnik.com. [Change we need, Change we did!] Reference
Ah! so different from those of most Polynesian half-blooded girls. From Wordnik.com. [Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898] Reference
Who ever heard of even a half-blooded Dimmerly dying from a mere faint?. From Wordnik.com. [From Jest to Earnest] Reference
She also carries "baneful blood" as her half-blooded older sister Aya does. From Wordnik.com. [The Wiire] Reference
I am no better than most traders -- you see it is the custom here, neither is she worse than any of these half-blooded Paumotuans. From Wordnik.com. [The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896] Reference
Samaritans, and would not speak to them, eat with them, trade with them, because they were only half-blooded Jews, and did not observe. From Wordnik.com. [Town and Country Sermons] Reference
But it may come out in the next generation; for, if these half-blooded individuals marry among themselves one-quarter of their children on the average will be blue-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science] Reference
Has been misconstrued to be eligible poets being those of full or half-blooded Filipino poets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
A few were undoubtedly British, therefore nothing need be said of them -- a few more, half-blooded Spaniards; and as we shall become better acquainted on our visiting the town, we will pass them without comment also; but one remarkable race, which has its representatives amongst the sea of faces before us, needs a few words of remark. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
His half-blooded daughter, not a real elf. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]
A hound half-blooded ravening for man's blood. From Wordnik.com. [Two Nations] Reference
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