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"Brindle" Quotes from Famous Books

... takes a heavy watering pot and—ugh! it gives me the shivers—pours thousands of icy, silvery threads over the roses or into the hollows of those little stone troughs, 'way back in the woods. I always look in to see the head of a brindle-bull who comes to meet me and to drink up the pictures of the leaves, but She pulls me back by the collar with: "Toby, Toby, that water is for the birds." ... Then She takes out her knife and opens nuts, fifty, a hundred nuts, and ...

— Barks and Purrs • Colette Willy, aka Colette

... "Quick now. Burn the earth." The horse sprang at his spurs. "Dust, you son of a gun! Rattle your hocks! Brindle! Vamoose!" Each shouted word was a lash with his quirt. ...

— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister

... with you, Miss Lady," the Stray pleaded, as he ran along beside me, trying to keep up with my long steps. "I've got me a dog now to keep off turkles from me and you." And the slinking brindle bunch of ears and tail and very little else, at our heels, regarded me with the same brave entreaty. He and the Stray, indeed, presented a picture of chivalrous attention as they ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

... took his place, I noticed that Brindle turned on me a vicious look. No doubt I was awkward and hurt her a little, also; for the first thing I knew the pail was in the air, I on my back, and Brindle bellowing around the yard, switching her tail, Junior and Merton meanwhile roaring with laughter. I ...

— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe

... called him Brindle; how sad the nickname sounds now—"you took my breath away. Dear lad, ...

— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley

Words linked to "Brindle" : brinded, brindled, patterned, tabby