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- noun Plural form of
brindle .
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And how perfect the brindles of ice, he might say, curved like ribs to those greening hearts.
Archive 2007-02-01 Kay Olson 2007
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And how perfect the brindles of ice, he might say, curved like ribs to those greening hearts.
As long as we're on poetry Kay Olson 2007
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He brindles, purrs and shoots warm thrills all down my spine as I sip.
The Waves 2003
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The Longhorn came in all colors: washed-out earth colors, dull brindles and blues, duns and browns, and drab clay-reds—solid, speckled, or spotted.
This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982
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The Longhorn came in all colors: washed-out earth colors, dull brindles and blues, duns and browns, and drab clay-reds—solid, speckled, or spotted.
This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982
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Breed first to mahogany brindles, and bitches from this union to seal brindles.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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California, one from St. Louis, one from Mexico, four from Canada, two from Chicago, and one from Texas, and with the exception of two who wished to replace dogs bought of us ten or twelve years previously, they practically all wanted seal brindles.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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A few years later Messrs. Phelps and Davis (who, with the above mentioned gentlemen, were true friends of the breed), sold a handsome pair of seal brindles, Chs. "Commissioner II." and "Topsy," to Mr. Borden of New York, and confirmed, if not established, the fashion for that color in that city.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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In regard to the mahogany brindles they say, why not breed continuously together rich mahogany sires and dams, and then we shall always have the brindles we desire.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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In their desire to obtain the dark seal brindles they have mated very dark dogs to equally dark bitches, which has resulted in a few generations in producing dogs absolutely black in color, with coats that look as if they had been steeped in a pail of ink.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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