skewbald
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Among the rarer birds which are now on the market to compensate us may be mentioned the bobolink, the dwarf cassowary, the Bombay duckling and the skewbald fintail.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
They passed a skewbald sign-post crowded with unfamiliar goblin names, and a dry tree from which once depended, Trewhella assured them, the bodies of three notorious smugglers.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
The traces were disentangled, and a few slaps on the nose forced the skewbald to draw back a little; after which the teams were straightened out and separated.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
That done, he addressed himself to the skewbald again.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in.
From Caesar Dies by Talbot Mundy
