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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 half rose from his seat, like a jockey on a thoroughbred, and pointed his gavel at Johnny Wayne.† (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 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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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'd done eleven colts already and this now was the twelfth, a beautiful black thoroughbred.† (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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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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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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The leaders of his expedition, Dan Mazur and Jonathan Pratt, along with French climber Etienne Fine, were thoroughbreds.† (source)
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