mongrel

He hardly met the finest type of mankind in that seafaring village of Spanish mongrels. The men aboard-ship, he told me, seemed at first just as strange to him as the Beast Men seemed to me,--unnaturally long in the leg, flat in the face, prominent in the forehead, suspicious, dangerous, and cold-hearted.

There can be no doubt that a race may be modified by occasional crosses, if aided by the careful selection of those individual mongrels, which present any desired character; but that a race could be obtained nearly intermediate between two extremely different races or species, I can hardly believe.

The old French houses engaged in the Indian trade had gathered round them a train of dependents, mongrel Indians, and mongrel Frenchmen, who had intermarried with Indians.

He accordingly assembled his people, and promulgated among them the mongrel doctrines and form of worship of the Nez Perces; recommending the same to their adoption.

A shaggy little damaged man, withal, not unlike an old dog of some mongrel breed, who has been considerably knocked about.

Holmes then threw the handkerchief to a distance, fastened a stout cord to the mongrel's collar, and let him to the foot of the water-barrel.

Top dogs in a pack are known to assert their dominance, but scientists from the University of Exeter (UK) and the Veterinary Service of the Local Health Unit Rome 3 (Italy) studied a group of free-roaming mongrels and found high levels of aggression in the middle of the dominance hierarchy.

When I was a boy, (I think I can remember) they called it hybrid vigour, the implication being that cross dogs or mongrels were healthier than their pedigree counterparts.