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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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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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Then she was running all out toward the car, and I had a foot on the accelerator and a foot on the brake, and the Chrysler felt at that moment like a Thoroughbred racehorse.† (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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He'd done eleven colts already and this now was the twelfth, a beautiful black thoroughbred.† (source)
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The long afternoons she spent browsing through dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were "esoteric," a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in "shameless auto-exculpation," the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a "cursory" journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the "hieroglyph" of his displeasure.† (source)
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We had 125 head up there, mostly Thoroughbreds and quarter horses.† (source)
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The mare was a dapple gray, with a white muzzle and a white streak down her forehead, too tall to be pure Indian pony and too short-barreled to be pure thoroughbred.† (source)
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Kentucky was sleek, glossy Thoroughbreds grazing on rich grass.† (source)
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That's a thoroughbred horse.† (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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He had nothing in common with the stray dogs in the street, much less with the thoroughbred racers that assorted families of the aristocracy were raising.† (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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Her nostrils flared with each inhalation, like a thoroughbred after the quarter mile.† (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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