Do we say thoroughbred or purebred

thoroughbred 156 occurrences

The frequent reference to such military men as Generals Sheridan, Carr, Merritt, Crook, Terry, Colonel Royal, and other officers under whom Mr. Cody served as scout and guide at different times and in various sections of the frontier, during the numerous Indian campaigns of the last ten or twelve years, affords ample proof of his genuineness as a thoroughbred scout.

Stillwell was only nineteen or twenty years old, but he was, in every sense of the word, a thoroughbred frontiersman.

They've got a thoroughbred bull, too, an' a heifer.

Gyp was a thoroughbred bull terrier of which Laura was the proud owner.

Many young gentlemen cantered up on thoroughbred hacks, spatter-dashed to the knee, and entered the house to pay their respects to the ladies, or, more modest and sportsmanlike, divested themselves of their mud-boots, exchanged their hacks for their hunters, and warmed their blood by a preliminary gallop round the lawn.

" "Well, he is a thoroughbred, anyway; and do you notice how he is right up in front when there is anything doing?

Well, Bob and I are up, and find it is not over; a small thoroughbred, white bull-terrier is busy throttling a large shepherd's dog, unaccustomed to war but not to be trifled with.

I know that I am not beautiful, and I know that I am not a thoroughbred.

Well, the old man grumbled and said he didn't want any thoroughbred airs in his stable, so I bought you, didn't I, Dutchman?" and Mr. Wood stroked him kindly and went to the next stall.

Not a thoroughbred there, but worth as much to me as if each had pedigree as long as this plank walk.

After that emancipation I lived in the haunts of the deer, traveling with a pack train, and cruising in about the same altitude affected by that most thoroughbred of all the conifers, the sugar pine.

A thoroughbred, even though bad, has more of our respect than the craven who cleaves to the proprieties solely from fear to violate them.

They all took the first fence in perfect form, as if they were thoroughbred hunters racing after a fox.

As well race a thoroughbred against a cowpony!

A mustang would have been incapable of such a thing, but in Alcatraz flowed the pure strain of the thoroughbred, tracing back to the old desert stock where the horse lives in the tent of his master, the most cherished member of the family.

'Figs. 150 and 151 represent the phalangeal bones of the off fore-leg of a thoroughbred horse named Osman, who was well known as a hunt steeplechaser of considerable merit in the Midland counties some twenty years ago.

In the course of two or three years Farquhar will make a desperate attempt to be mercenary by marrying a girl whom he supposes to be wealthy; he will find out his mistake, and then, like the thoroughbred that he is, will go on cherishing her as though she had brought him a ton of rent-rolls.

Still, Anne was naturally a thoroughbred; the girl had a personal distinction which was hers by right of inheritance, and what she lacked in elegance she was quick to acquire as she grew into womanhood.

Can't you see the arteries throbbing under the almost hairless skin of my templesthe transparent, bluish skin that denotes a thoroughbred?

Thoroughbred bloodlines; an elementary study.

Besides, this cat is a thoroughbred, never been outside the home where she was born till now.

His heartily murmured, "You're a thoroughbred for sure, Madge," rewarded me for my composure.

The profits of these southern shopkeepers (who, for the most part, are thoroughbred Yankees, with the true Yankee propensity to trade, no matter on how dirty a counter, or in what manner of wares) are enormous.

XXVI D'ri came soon with horses, one the black thoroughbred of Louise which had brought her on this errand.

"I have no worship for aristocracy in the abstract; I am a student, a rather careful student of systems and their results, and, incidentally, a breeder of thoroughbred live stock, too, which helps one's conclusions: and above all I am an interested watcher of the progress of evolution.

purebred 1 occurrences

Chamberlain, the German philosopher or historian (I know not which to call him or how to call him either) remarks somewhere that purebred races possess fidelity; he instances the negro and the dogand, I suppose, the German.

Do we say   thoroughbred   or  purebred