Not purebred

Usage examples of mongrel.

Rumbo was a mongrel, what men might have called a petty criminal had they been able to read his mind.

He was a bony mongrel, about five or six years old, an amalgamation of several breeds.

A uniformed policeman arrived at the yard and asked one of the breakers if there were two black mongrel dogs on the premises.

The shoppers must have been puzzled by the thoughtful-looking mongrel who paced up and down that street, peering up at passing faces, snooping into shop doorways.

Professor Webb, for several among his mongrel prisoners had repeated to him what older celebrants had told them the words meant.

I did not wonder, for what thoughts must arise upon hearing, after a knowledge of what Legrasse had learned of the cult, of a sensitive young man who had dreamed not only the figure and exact hieroglyphics of the swamp-found image and the Greenland devil tablet, but had come in his dreams upon at least three of the precise words of the formula uttered alike by Esquimaux diabolists and mongrel Louisianans?

I visited New Orleans, talked with Legrasse and others of that old-time raiding-party, saw the frightful image, and even questioned such of the mongrel prisoners as still survived.

Sir, that what--the squire--got from those mongrel savages was but a small part of the larning he came to have.

Many of the crowded family degenerated, moved across the valley, and merged with the mongrel population which was later to produce the pitiful squatters.

He wanted so desperately to believe it that he imagined himself shouting at the mongrel for scaring him half out of his mind.

Confronted on the one hand with a number of persons bent on reporting the incident to the Deputy-Ranger, and on the other by a delinquent mongrel owned by a Young Person unattended by a footman, or a maid, they saw their duty clear before them: Lufra, the elder of the two awfully told Frederica, must be handed over to them, to be kept in custody until a magistrate should pronounce his fate.

He said that Miss was coming it too strong, adding that while he knew nothing about Barcelona collies he did know a mongrel when he saw one.

The new dog was in the kitchen, a mongrel which Willie had found and which gazed from its basket hardly able to credit its luck.

The dog was an unkempt black-and-brown mongrel with a reprieved expression.

After all, in the world of the future, a world of merchants and mechanics, the base impulses of the mongrel are those that will dominate.