Mountain Jim’s gentle Arab mare contrasted sharply with his ruffian appearance.

Evidence

By way of contrast he rode a small Arab mare, of exquisite beauty, skittish, high spirited, gentle, but altogether too light for him, and he fretted her incessantly to make her display herself. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 227

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• Mountain Jim spoke with cultured elegance and lost his eye to a grizzly. (similarity 0.84)