At his feet, quietly happy, was a bright-eyed, yellow mongrel with a stubby tail which wagged violently as Evelina approached.
At any rate, he could not object to a tired yellow mongrel quenching his thirst at his pool.
The little yellow mongrel capered joyfully and unceasingly, affecting to hide amidst the mass of rubbish, scrambling out with sharp, eager barks when his master playfully buried him, and retreating hastily before the oncoming scythe.
The coyote was doing nobly, so was the mongrel hound, thought Hope, who watched the race with breathless interest.
The yellow dogs were falling behind, losing ground at every step, but the blue mongrel was spurting.
And with these, and my carbine, I leaped upon Kickums, who was now quite glad of a gallop again; and I bade adieu to that mongrel lot; yet they had the meanness to shoot at me.
It was this mongrel quotation which damped the Freeman's powder.
It's only some half-starved Kafir mongrel that's got in.
Some of the elder children are laden with smaller bundles, and even the cows are pressed into the service as porters, each having a long roll of mats fastened across her horns, and two or three mongrel curs slink behind the group.
Almost every year, some woman from a great distance, dirty and bad-faced, presented herself at the ranch, leading by the hand a little mongrel with eyes like live coals.
The Spaniard wished to remonstrate, but the Sage would not permit, adding in an oracular tone: "You were miserable Celts, sunk in the vileness of an inferior and mongrel race whose domination by Rome but made your situation worse.
In this mongrel attire the neophyte joined some roving band of Galli.
Galilee was not far away, populated by a mongrel people, composed of the relic of ancient Jewish stock and the colonists who had come from Babylon.
I expect I gave that big mongrel the fright of his life," said Mr. Watson, with complacency.
He showed no actual fondness for any particular person save Judith and his big mongrel wolf-hound, Sister, Sister being every inch a person!
His dog, a mongrel collie, ran up the trail to meet the returning Sister and Prince.
And not Old Tyson himself could pay The purchase money of Mongrel Grey.
The youngster toddled about all day, And with our horses was Mongrel Grey.
The Story of Mongrel Grey This is the story the stockman told, On the cattle camp, when the stars were bright; The moon rose up like a globe of gold And flooded the plain with her mellow light.
They reared and snorted and turned away, And none would face it but Mongrel Grey.
That was a matter of every-day Common occurrence toMongrel Grey.
In the flooded ground he could find his way, Nothing could puzzle old Mongrel Grey.
We watched the cattle till dawn of day And he told me the story of Mongrel Grey.
However, guesses as to the final outcome of an Indian-mongrel conflict are academic speculation, becausemongrel America will not be left to itself.
Assuming for the sake of argument complete freedom from foreign intervention, the Indian might in time displace his mongrel rulers--provided he himself were not also mongrelized.
You cannot make bad stock into good by changing its meridian, any more than you can turn a cart-horse into a hunter by putting it into a fine stable, or make a mongrel into a fine dog by teaching it tricks.
The stock feature of the mongrel tropics is, of course, the "revolution.
Thus it is practically certain that mongrel America will presently pass under foreign tutelage.
Everywhere ambitious soldiers led the mongrel mob against the white aristocracy, breaking its power and making themselves dictators.
There is, however, another dynamic which might transform mongrel America.
Analyses of these hybrid stocks show remarkable similarities to the mongrel chaos of the declining Roman Empire.
We have already viewed the mongrel and his works in Latin America.
Maddened by the cruel vagaries of mongrel rule and increasingly conscious of the mongrel's innate worthlessness, the Indian at last bares his teeth.
To be sure, thismongrel population long remained politically negligible.
Indeed I have known of but one dog which single-handed encountered and slew a wolf; this was the large vicious mongrel whose feats are recorded in my Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel.
The Apache Mojaves are 'a mongrel race of Indians living between the Verde or San Francisco and the Colorado.
The Aleuts, to Langsdorff, "appear to be a sort of middle race between the mongrel Tartars and the North Americans.
This mongrel construction of the word that, were its justification possible, is common enough in our language to be made good English.
Master Swift was regarded, too, by a colored sketch of Rufus sitting at table in his arm-chair, with his more mongrel friend on the floor beside him.
Both East and West instinctively recognize the truth of this, and show it by their common contempt for the "Eurasian"--the mongrel offspring of unions between the two races.
We will not make with the negro a common treasure of our Anglo-Saxon blood by putting it in hotch-pot with his in a mongrel breed.
There are always blow-holes in this mongrel culture, for heredity does not work by averages.
Were there not enough other mongrel children in all the earth through whom heredity could establish her heartless caprices without the sacrifice of Helen and of Helen's baby!
I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
To inquire what he might have done, if he had had any boldness, would be like inquiring what a mongrel cur might do, if it had the spirit of a tiger.
Who is this mongrel gipsy, bold of tongue, Who beards us with drawn sword.
Or that he, A base-born mongrel gipsy, just because Decked in the garments of some plundered lord, Could e'er deceive the eyes of men like us?
After a long wait Dolly and I took a small mongrelsort of motor that had been refused by all the Diana's passengers.
You know the expression of the prize dog who is borne from the show hung with medals and ribbons--how he gazes on the little mongrel curs that gather with the crowd in the streets?
Would it not be a most mirthful jest to ride with equipage such as this to that mongrel poverty-stricken Court, and let the poor little King and his starved guardian see what true greatness and splendour mean?
And he was a street preacher, too, with a mongrel religion of his own invention, whereby he expected to regenerate the universe.
I destroyed the mongrel reptile on the spot, but I smiled and smiled all the time I was detaching his scalp, for the remark he made was good for an "Injun.
One day, in the midst of their game, the mongrel Cub thought he would frighten them; so he opened his mouth wide, intending to roar, and all that came out was a yelp like the yelp of a jackal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mongrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
