Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "mixed blood"

  • The people he described as "of mixed blood, white and black.

  • Approximately 1,000 Sioux and a small number of Chippewa--many of both tribes are now of mixed blood--are under jurisdiction of the agency.

  • Six thousand three hundred thirty-four Chippewas, most of whom are of mixed blood, live on the Turtle Mountain Reservation (see Tour 5).

  • The vast majority, however, are country folk cultivating the soil as tenants or labourers or tending sheep and cattle as herdsmen for the landowners, who are, of course, either of Spanish or of mixed blood.

  • Much property is now possessed by men of mixed blood.

  • Whoever marries a Negro, or Indian, a mixed blood--his children are liable to the fourth degree from the twelfth year on, and the female Indian or Negro is also taxable.

  • Whoever marries a Negress, Indian, Mulatto or anything of mixed blood, must pay a fine of fifty pounds.

  • Needless to say, the slaves easily comprised from forty to fifty per cent of the population, and if we add all those of mixed blood we have a majority of the inhabitants of Brazil.

  • Bunyan was either of the Gipsy race (of mixed blood) or of the native one.

  • When a man of mixed blood marries a woman darker than himself, and his children thereby become further removed from the white tint, it is said to be un paso atras (a step backwards).

  • The population of Chiloe consists of Whites, Indians, and people of mixed blood.

  • It is, however, an established rule, that the children bear the designation, denoting the same degree of mixed blood, whatever may respectively be the colors of the parents.

  • Having noticed the principal races, we will now consider the variegated mass of people of mixed blood, who in Lima form a considerable portion of the population.

  • He was a young man, of medium size, mixed blood, intelligent, and a brave fellow as will appear presently.

  • She was about twenty-five years of age, quite stout, of mixed blood, and intelligent, having traveled considerably with her mistress.

  • Mary Frances was about twenty-three years of age, of mixed blood, refined in her manners and somewhat cultivated.

  • There is a woman of mixed blood here,' she cried haughtily.

  • Berquin-Duvallon describes just such a scene: "The ladies' ball is a sanctuary where no woman dare approach if she has even a suspicion of mixed blood.

  • There was a good deal of mixed blood, no doubt, and many dark persons could not be identified as belonging to any particular race.

  • And if of mixed blood, in what proportion were the different elements?

  • From all that has been said, the reader can have no difficulty in believing, with me, as a question beyond doubt, that the immortal John Bunyan was a Gipsy of mixed blood.

  • Gipsies of mixed blood, the individual, if he takes after the Gipsy, is apt to be short and thick-set.

  • Hicks, a Moravian convert of mixed blood, and at that time the most influential man in the Nation, was elected principal chief, with John Ross as assistant chief.

  • He was either of the Gipsy race, of mixed blood, or of the ordinary English one.

  • He was only justified in saying that he was of “mixed blood”; but he made no allusion to my long argument (pp.

  • The subjects of the following photographs are of mixed blood: List of illustrations.

  • Of the following subjects, nearly all are of mixed blood.

  • More than half of the colored people of the United States are of mixed blood; they marry and are given in marriage, and they beget children of complexions similar to their own.

  • But in spite of all this, illegitimacy is not a desirable distinction, and is likely to become less so as these people of mixed blood advance in wealth and social standing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mixed blood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are often; can help; cathedral church; distant about; each corner; fair youth; gift from; gone from; good taste; know little; mixed blood; mixed farming; mixed multitude; mixed number; mixed race; mixed schools; mixed spice; mixed together; mixed with; much business; naught else; physical facts; pumice stone; quite possible; shall prove; wireless message