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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of high birth; of noble lineage; of a fine strain, as an Arabian horse.

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Examples

  • There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • The latter rallied in an instant, and, being a stout, high-blooded

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • In the circle you were born into, maybe you were too high-blooded, indicating a forbidden match, so they put you out in the street.

    Genesis Force John Vornholt 2003

  • Whether Dode shared in it was doubtful; she echoed the "Poor David" in just the voice with which high-blooded women pity a weak man.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

  • So while it hasn't passed the border, the Anthem Sprint's a high-blooded sport once you're in it.

    The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

  • There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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