The man's highbred horse and the air of authority he wore like a good cloak made him easy to pick out.

And I wouldn't say but that young thing would grace a hall better than many a highbred dame I've seen.

There was certainly something of the highbred filly about her restless movements and explosive temperament.

Then he was past the last of his men, galloping east as fast as his highbred mount would run.

A single destitute earring winked next to the highbred nose and smooth olive skin.

The boy was straining forward, nostrils flickering, head held high, like some trembling highbred beast restrained on a leash.

Maybe now your highbred officers won't howl so loudly if my men ride undercover with their patrols."

Thorisin rode up on his highbred bay, grunted approval at the Romans'

It is a highbred crustacean, with crossbreed characteristics of a large sea crab and a big spiny lobster.

He wore black pants and a too tight once-white shirt that looked as though it could have belonged to a highbred Spaniard.

Lescaux's face reddened as the soup-spattered woman graced them with a highbred scowl.

The human population is now 3,000,000 highbred elite and 5,000,000,000 morons.

They were small, sturdy beasts, unlovely and not very tame-nothing like the highbred steeds the Videssians prized.

Iccius waited behind Ban, a fair-headed child, over-horsed on Amminios' highbred bay.

But Lord Marlow blundering jovially through the London scene and Lord Marlow bestriding one of his highbred hunters were two very different persons.

Ever since I can remember her she has been the quaintest mixture of the housewife and the woman of letters, with the highbred spirited lady as a basis for either character.

She was trying to be as elvenlike as possible, fashioning herself after the highbred maidens she'd seen being paraded before Lord Dyran in hopes of a marriage alliance.

They like to think of us as barbarians, and the highbred ones will pretend you don't exist, but what good is thousands of years of art if you can't defend yourself?

But Lady Rezalla would not have considered it in any way a compliment, nor were her mother's highbred tones and elegant diction suitable for any AI on this ship.

If she'd had a stable full of highbred horses, all carefully brought up, schooled . . . and if they had suddenly begun to act strange, to attack grooms and each other . . . what would she think?

For answer, Asandir climbed back behind the buckboard, flicked the reins, and rolled the pony cart into the roadway amid its jostling trains of oxen; its highbred, liveried couriers; and packs of cross-gartered, sunburned farmers who ruminated over summer rains and crop blight.