"Brindle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was named after the gentleman who told me the story), 'you are grander than any kitten ever was before.' And at first Brindle felt pleased—then he tried to feel pleased—then he knew he wasn't pleased at all. Then the shoes began to hurt him horribly, so he mewed sadly; and Mrs. Tabby White boxed his ears softly—as mother cats do; you know how I mean! But when she was asleep he took off the ...
— Pussy and Doggy Tales • Edith Nesbit
... called him Brindle; how sad the nickname sounds now—"you took my breath away. Dear ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... addressing a neighbor on the Common, "what do you s'pose I paid for that brindle ye'rlin' o' mine? Give ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... running I could start them home for him: Rose, Brindle, Bess, and Pidy, Sukey and Muley; they had eaten all day, but they still snatched bites as they went toward the gate. I wanted to surprise ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... we'd both walked so often befo' when I saw what I thought was Kathleen comin' towards me. I ran to meet her. It wa'n't Kathleen, but her mother—an' she told me to git in a hurry, that the old man knew all, had locked Kathleen up in the kitchen, turned the brindle dog loose in the yard, an' was hidin' in the woods nigh the barn, with his gun loaded with bird-shot, an' that if I went any further the chances were I'd not sit down agin for a year. She had slipped around through the woods ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore |
