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Mr. Dolphus Raymond lurched by on his thoroughbred. (source)thoroughbred = fine horse
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A thoroughbred of the streets, Jemmy acted on instinct. (source)thoroughbred = someone who is highly capable
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He'd done eleven colts already and this now was the twelfth, a beautiful black thoroughbred.† (source)
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He admired the drawling elegance of the wealthy rice and cotton planters, who rode into Savannah from their moss-hung kingdoms, mounted on thoroughbred horses and followed by the carriages of their equally elegant ladies and the wagons of their slaves.† (source)
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I hunt the scum of the earth — sailors from tramp ships — lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels — a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.† (source)
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All summer he'd been buying horses, Thoroughbreds and Paso Finos, most of them unbroken because he could pick them up cheap.† (source)
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He half rose from his seat, like a jockey on a thoroughbred, and pointed his gavel at Johnny Wayne.† (source)
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There would be burnished, stick-legged Thoroughbreds, their jockeys in billowing bright silks, careering past.† (source)
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Otherwise he possessed the markings of the military thoroughbred.† (source)
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You give away horses worth a thousand louis; you save the lives of ladies of high rank and beauty; under the name of Major Brack you run thoroughbreds ridden by tiny urchins not larger than marmots; then, when you have carried off the golden trophy of victory, instead of setting any value on it, you give it to the first handsome woman you think of!† (source)
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Her nostrils flared with each inhalation, like a thoroughbred after the quarter mile.† (source)
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We had 125 head up there, mostly Thoroughbreds and quarter horses.† (source)
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ELESIN No. Even a thoroughbred is not without pity for the turf he strikes with his hoof.† (source)
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The leaders of his expedition, Dan Mazur and Jonathan Pratt, along with French climber Etienne Fine, were thoroughbreds.† (source)
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There were cockfights in the patios, accordion music on the street corners, riders on thoroughbred horses, rockets and bells.† (source)
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The magnificent coach, drawn by four of the finest thoroughbreds in England, had driven off along the London road, with Sir Percy Blakeney on the box, holding the reins in his slender feminine hands, and beside him Lady Blakeney wrapped in costly furs.† (source)
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