half-bred

• “A Roma would trust anyone before a diddakoibefore the half-bred people who were born of gypsy and gorja.”

  Excerpt: An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear

• “The Director thought that the changeling, whom he had seen, was very likely a half-bred hunter, which hadn't been eligible for Stud Book entry in the first place, and of whom there would be no official record anywhere.”

  Fictionaut: The Elvis Latte

• “Vivi, deciding that they should use a half-bred unregistered throw-out as their entry to the sales, had bought one from a knacker's yard for peanuts; a bay with a white star, common as dirt.”

  Fictionaut: The Elvis Latte

• “A half-bred, half-acting, half-thinking, half-daring caitiff, whose poorest thoughts — and those which deserve that name must be poor indeed — are not the produce of his own understanding.”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “I came this way with the falcon on purpose to find you, and yon half-bred lubbard told me which way you took flight.”

  The Abbot

• “Arabian which looks like a Kurdish half-bred, the descendant of those Cappadocians so much prized by the Romans: in Syria I rode a”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “So, he spat, like your mother, you prefer this creature, this half-bred demon thing to your own blood, your own family?”

  Simon & Schuster: The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones

• “I had brought out two first-rate horses, both stallions, one half-bred, the other three-quarters; they were called Salim and Harpash.”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “I often think a parvenue, or half-bred woman, would burst if she had to do as I do.”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “Often had Moore gazed with a brilliant countenance over howling crowds from a hostile hustings: he had breasted the storm of unpopularity with gallant bearing and soul elate; but he drooped his head under the half-bred tradesmen's praise, and shrank chagrined before their congratulations.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

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