Chän is a black shaggy dog, "a thoroughbred little mongrel" of whom I am very fond.

I said; "mad mongrel, truly off your precious hide, I'll score; Like your cheek to come here yapping, just as I was gently napping; You deserve a strapping,yapping, snapping at my study door.

There are fewer mongrels in our midst, and the family dog has become a respectable member of society.

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But we have to carry extra men, who bunk amidshipshell-hounds to fight; damn mongrels of course.

Why the West Indies are full of such devils; been breeding them down there for two hundred years-Indians and half-breeds, niggers, Creoles, Portuguese, Spanish, and every damned mongrel you ever heard of.

By patience and comfort his mind slowly expanded until men almost forgot that this was a disgraceful mongrel.

Soft-footed and soft-throated mongrel dogs from the South would have snarled and growled, but Kazan and the wolf were still, their ears laid forward instead of back, their tails free and bushy.

But Frank, at the sheer verge of a deplorable offense, implicitly obeyed his master's command and forbore to destroy the gypsy mongrel.

They saw in him an indescribable mongrel, applying the talents of a swindler to the dreams of an Empire, who, even when crowned, would be a thief, who would say of a parricide, What roguery!

Passing through the E.A.M.C. transport lines I rescued Dustbin from a hulking native mongrel wearing an identity disc.

Thanks to the influence of the Kennel Club and the institution of dog shows, which have encouraged the improvement of distinct breeds, there are fewer nondescript mongrels in our midst than there were a generation or so ago.

"A pure mongrel," was what a gentleman of the British Legation termed Andreas, and this self-contradictory epithet was scarcely out of place.

Alcatraz was no starveling mongrel, but to the fierceness of a wild horse and the tireless durability of a mustang he united the subtlety which he had gained in his long battle with the Mexican and above all this, his was the pride of one who had already conquered man.

Chän is a black shaggy dog, "a thoroughbred little mongrel" of whom I am very fond.

A very large proportion of these have been veritable mongrels, not worth the value of their licencesdiseased and maimed curs, or bitches in whelp, turned ruthlessly adrift to be consigned to the oblivion of the lethal chamber, where the thoroughbred seldom finds its way.

"They are half-breed mongrels, and no sailors; Estevan is a hell-hound, an' so far as my voice goes, I'd rather die on this deck than ever agin be a bloody pirate.

Nor was Michael Angelo responsible for the vile mongrel architecture which followed the Renaissance, and which disfigures the modern capitals of Europe, any more than for the perversion of painting in the hands of Titian.

He's only a breeda mongrel.

The idlers amidships were a totally different classa mongrel scum, profanely chatting in Spanish, or swaggering about the deck, their very looks a challenge.