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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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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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The horse was the best hunt horse, young but not inexperienced, the color of an expensive gun-stock and built almost like a racing thoroughbred, except that his legs were thicker and stronger.† (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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He half rose from his seat, like a jockey on a thoroughbred, and pointed his gavel at Johnny Wayne.† (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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Otherwise he possessed the markings of the military thoroughbred.† (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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Her nostrils flared with each inhalation, like a thoroughbred after the quarter mile.† (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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ELESIN No. Even a thoroughbred is not without pity for the turf he strikes with his hoof.† (source)
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We had 125 head up there, mostly Thoroughbreds and quarter horses.† (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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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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