A well-bred person

Usage examples of thoroughbred.

He was badly bruised from the beating he had received when he had been ambushed, and, controlling the hell-hound had been as exhausting as riding a high-spirited thoroughbred.

Surprise: he had often taken the wheel and he had tried her with every conceivable combination of sails, and although she certainly proved a sound, dry, weatherly ship, carrying an easy helm, wearing and staying quick and lying to remarkably well under reefed maincourse and mizen staysail, she lacked that thoroughbred quality, that extraordinary manoeuvrability and turn of speed close-hauled.

French yards, a true thoroughbred, very fast in the right hands, weatherly, dry, a splendid sailor on a bowline, and a ship that almost steered herself once you understood her ways.

Europe scientific tests have proven that the Andalusian contributed to the development of the Connemara, the Cleveland Bay, the Friesan, the Hackney, the Percheron, the Thoroughbred, and the Welsh.

Thoroughbreds comprising those animals sporting the red browband on their bridles that proclaimed them as belonging to the Hall.

Wearing wide-sleeved khalats and Nilnameshi chain-mail, they charged down the slopes, riding thoroughbreds raised on the hard frontiers of the Great Salt.

Idly he stroked her body in a tender but nonsexual way, his hand traveling lightly along her flanks, her belly, her cheeks, a purely esthetic enjoyment, simply enjoying the smoothness of her, the firmness of her skin and the taut flesh and muscle beneath it, the way he might stroke a finely carved statuette, or a thoroughbred racing-bandar, or a perfectly thrown porcelain bowl.

Unlike the other team animals and the thoroughbred back at the Academy, the quarter horse was calmly tolerant of the reptilelike dinosaur.

The Speeds in their rows began to tremble as their pilots powered up, almost expectantly, like thoroughbreds at a starting gate.

Thoroughbred, standardbred, and quarter-horse racing, while exciting, led to heartbreak back at the shed row.

The best of them do have some thoroughbred or standardbred or Morgan blood in them, if you trace back their bloodlines.

Her angular steelwork, with its flat abrupt surfaces from which rose the tall turret, still gave her the ugly old-maidish silhouette, but there was a new majesty in the way she plunged forward her bright Ethiopian colours fluttered gaily as a cavalry pennant and the high thin, rimmed wheels spurned the sandy earth like the hooves of a thoroughbred.

Chapter 6 Nathan Cox had driven his half-dozen blooded Thoroughbred horses over the Laramie Mountains and then skirted around the north slope of Bridger Peak before dropping south toward the Yampa River in the northwest corner of Colorado.

He pumped her arm as if he expected her to spout water out of her mouth, and all the while he enthused about thoroughbred racing.

I concluded from the abject manner of these people that they could not possibly be thoroughbred Bedouins, and I saw, too, that they must be in the very last stage of misery, for poor indeed is the man in these climes who cannot command a pipeful of tobacco.