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  • Half-breeds are never what you think, when you think it, and it's a narrative just getting through the day with them.

    Borg Eyes 2006

  • Half-breeds are never what you think, when you think it, and it's a narrative just getting through the day with them.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • "Half-breeds aren't supposed to exist," Vin said carefully.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • "Half-breeds is no good, as a rule, but that Nais war a good one."

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

  • Half-breeds, dissolute renegades, and Indians, they pushed and peered and in many a face was already burning the excitement of her beauty, especially those of the savage Bois-Brules.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

  • "Half-breeds" were anti-organization men and more sympathetic with the administration.

    The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

  • Stalwart leaders divide, 465; supported by Cornell, 465; opposed by Arthur, Sharpe, Murphy, and Smyth, 465; promise made to Half-breeds, 468; with their aid nominated in caucus, 468; elected, 468;

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • "Half-breeds," title of faction in Rep. party, 1880, iii.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • Half-breeds were breaking wild ponies, cow-boys were packing, roping, and instructing the tenderfoot, the stores swarmed with would-be miners fitting out, while other outfits already supplied were crawling up the distant hill like loosely articulated canvas-colored worms.

    The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

  • Cree Indians, and Half-breeds, and Palefaces, all searching the country for something to kill; and when they have slaughtered the

    The Outcasts William Alexander Fraser 1896

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