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  • You see, when the ` breeds 'rose under Reil the full-bloods kept the peace, and they've not lost much love for one another since.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • You see, when the ` breeds 'rose under Reil the full-bloods kept the peace, and they've not lost much love for one another since.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • It was not the removal of full-bloods, as has been suggested - the tribes themselves were discriminating against the half-castes.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • There's some half-breed girls, an 'full-bloods too, that ain't so bad comp'ny as you'd think.

    When the Grass Grew Long 1996

  • The half-breeds are looking more affectionately upon the full-bloods, as the proper field of labor for their most devoted efforts; and both factions are now so poor that there is nothing for the one to be envious of in the other.

    Notes Among the Indians 1995

  • It has killed the old factions and broken down the middle wall of partition between the half-breeds and full-bloods.

    Notes Among the Indians 1995

  • In the early days, the full-bloods were in the habit of burying with the body some favorite trinket or article of personal adornment.

    The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

  • A few full-bloods shut away on a reservation, a few buffalo penned in a corral -- children of the open spaces and of freedom, both of them, and now dying and imprisoned.

    Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • I can talk signs so fast that the full-bloods themselves have to ask me to slow up.

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • He showed his white blood, being much lighter in complexion than the full-bloods.

    A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

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