He reckoned if he faced the pull And climbed the rocky stair, The next to come might find his hide A land-mark on the mountain side, Along with Hogan's brindled bull And Hogan's old grey mare!
LXII Not brindled bulls or tawny lions spring To forest warfare with such deadly will As those two knights, the stranger and the king.
About twenty yards away a couple of white-tailed gnus were feeding, and just beyond three more of the larger and brindled kind, and a little apart from these a fine specimen of the sable antelope.
You don't meet every day with a young lady who can boast of having shot big game--dropped a fine specimen of the brindled gnu dead in his tracks.
It was the first time he had run blue wildebeest, or, as he had been accustomed to call them in England, brindled gnu.
It was no wonder the brindled cow stopped feeding, and began to look around her.
Each one of them made up his mind to let the brindled cow alone; and all would have been well if it had not been for Soddy Corcoran's dog.
Again and again all that big sound was thrown at the head of the brindled cow, and she knew it came from somewhere in the grass.
They do credit to the nursing of the brindled slut.
Now, the master had a brindled dog as a watch,--a most ferocious animal; they called him Ulyashin.
The animals were of the brindled variety, and each was garnished with a steel spiked collar.
Old man Prindle's contribution to the pack consisted of two immense brindled mongrels of great strength and ferocious temper.
Another hunter will call any bigbrindled bear a grisly no matter where it is found; and he and his companions will dispute by the hour as to whether a bear of large, but not extreme, size is a grisly or a silver-tip.
WASP Was a dark brindled bull-terrier, as pure in blood as Cruiser or Wild Dayrell.
The brindled cow was bought, and Arthur and Carlo and Rosetta most joyfully accepted the invitation.
She looked down at a brindled cat that came into the room and rubbed its side against her skirt.
A brindledcow stood in the middle of the street, jangling a discordant bell, and lowing dolefully.
A sleek calf was running back and forth in a little lot, and a brindled cow was bellowing mellowly, her head thrown up as she cantered down the road, her heavy bag swinging under her.
The Brindled Pug (Eupithecia abbreviata) Our last example of the Pugs is the Brindled Pug, another early species, appearing on the wing in March and April.
Alexander Abraham made a frantic lunge at the brindled streak as it whirled past him, with the result that he overbalanced himself and went sprawling on the floor with a crash.
After enduring a woman hater and a brindled dog and the early disorder of that house--and coming off best with all three--smallpox seemed rather insignificant.
With each circuit he went faster and faster, until he looked like a brindled streak with a dash of black and white on top.
William Adolphus landed squarely on Mr. Riley's brindled back and promptly took fast hold, spitting and clawing and caterwauling.
One morning this worthy came into Rattleton's room, bearing in his hand a littlebrindled object about five inches long.
As Varnum left the Yard and turned into the Square, he saw a tall thin figure approaching, astride of a diminutive polo pony, and followed by a brindled bull-terrier.
Arrived at the top of the hill, I peered through the branches and saw a finebrindled bull just in the act of rising to his feet.
And with this his battle-cry shaking the lonely wilds, and finding echo in a deep-mouthed howl from the brindled dog in the dingle below, the Fighting Nigger burst from his ambush, all the lion of his nature now roused and rampant within him.
The next moment, swift to his master's call, far swifter than would seem from the length of time it has taken to describe the combat up to this point, the brindled dog leaped like a little lion into the arena.
Giving a loud, fife-like whistle, he was instantly joined by a huge brindled dog of grim and formidable aspect.
Instead, as I advanced, he gradually fell back, and I noticed that another dog, a vague rough brindled thing, had limped up on a lame leg.
Old Darby rose and seized the broom, And whirled the dirt about the room: Which having done, he scarce knew how, He hied to milk the brindled cow.
The brindled cow whisked round her tail In Darby's eyes, and kicked the pail.
There hung the wild-cat's brindled hide, Above the elk's branched brow and skull, And frontlet of the forest bull.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brindled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banded; barred; brindle; marbled; mottled; speckled; streaked; striated; striped; variegated
