skewbald
Example Sentences
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That skewbald, barin—you might think it well to sell him, seeing that he is nothing but a rascal?
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
Horses of all colours, which only the richness of the Hungarian language can find names for: bay, grey, black, white-faced, piebald, dappled, chestnut, flea-bitten, strawberry, skewbald, roan, cream-coloured, and, what is rarest among foals, milk-white.
From The Yellow Rose by M?r J?kai
He had a blue wagon, had George, with scarlet wheels and a green awning; and his horse was a red-and-white skewbald and jingled bells on its bridle.
From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon
They passed a skewbald sign-post crowded with unfamiliar goblin names, and a dry tree from which once depended, Trewhella assured them, the bodies of three notorious smugglers.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in.
From Caesar Dies by Talbot Mundy
