"Thoroughbred" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to be duped by no intrigue because you hold the threads of all within your fingers; to see through all partitions; to penetrate all secrets, search all hearts, all consciences,—these are the things you fear! And yet you were not afraid to go and wallow in a Thuillier bog; you, a thoroughbred, allowed yourself to be harnessed to a hackney-coach, to the ignoble business of electing that ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... zone of the town's main street—and in the darkness, headed toward New York, Jimmie Dale, his nonchalance gone now, leaned forward over the wheel, and the big sixty horse-power car leaped into its stride like a thoroughbred at the touch of the spur, and tore onward at dare-devil speed through ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... is all feminine gameness, Trusting her insights, ardent for living; She would be weeping with me and be laughing, A thoroughbred, ...
— The Congo and Other Poems • Vachel Lindsay
... to take defeat gracefully: defeat seldom came. "Never let even a pawn be taken," he gave me, a small boy, as a rule for the game. Even in little things he liked thoroughness,—a capacity for painstaking which is, I think, characteristic of the "thoroughbred." ...
— James B. Eads • Louis How
... he said, "a clean shot, a thoroughbred. I ask no better comrade than you. I never again shall have such ...
— Blue-Bird Weather • Robert W. Chambers
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