But in fact it was a Havanese she wanted, a small, sturdy breed that, in the past decade, has become a mainstay of New York apartment life.

Jones met the pioneer Texas rancher Charles Goodnight, who was crossbreeding buffalo with cattle to produce beefalo, also called cattalo, an otherwise sturdy breed often born sterile.

This is a deep-chested, sturdy and agile breed, capable of great speeds and valued for its stamina.

Perhaps, he thought, these pioneers really were a sturdier breed, not so ready to accept the humanoids.

On the whole, they are a sturdy and hardy breed.

American Bobtails are a very sturdy breed, with both short- and long-haired coats.

But East Villagers are a sturdy breed, and when they like a restaurant, they sink their teeth into it like sharks on bait.

The hippies have proved a sturdier breed than most.

Mounted on sturdy breeds and advancing in crisscrossing patterns, they covered three or four times the distance the column marched.

(It is, in fact, named after a famously sturdy Austrian breed of draft horses.)