skewbald
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Among the rarer birds which are now on the market to compensate us may be mentioned the bobolink, the dwarf cassowary, the Bombay duckling and the skewbald fintail.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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 MacKenzie, Compton
In fact, so pleased did the skewbald seem with his new friends that he refused to stir from the melee into which an unforeseen chance had plunged him.
From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.
Sextus edged his horse a little closer to the skewbald and for more than a minute appeared to be studying Norbanus' face, the other grinning at him and making the stallion prance.
From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot
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 Mundy, Talbot
