Reared
[riəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Rear
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Examples
- Probably it reared itself up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Reared by me as my own daughter---- Once more, uncle, have the kindness to keep to the point. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These fishes are reared by the Chinese in small ponds, in basins or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In another moment the deck reared at an angle of ninety degrees and we hung in our leather with feet dangling a thousand yards above the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Hitherto he had taken the world as children still take the homes and habits in which they have been reared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A large number of individuals of an animal or plant can be reared only where the conditions for its propagation are favourable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I might suffer; I was inured to suffering: death itself had not, I thought, those terrors for me which it has for the softly reared. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I hope it may not appear very unnatural or bad in me that I then became heavily sorrowful to think I had ever been reared. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Other girls, differently reared and differently circumstanced altogether, might wonder at what I say or may do. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Many years ago you heard the story of the woman who taught me the thing that green Martians are reared to hate, the woman who taught me to love. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He came of a foreign ancestry by the mother's side, and was himself born and partly reared on a foreign soil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The cage door opened, and when the small bird, reared in captivity, had tamely fluttered in, he saw it shut again; and then he came away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Akki the irrigator reared me to boyhood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And you have reared the boy, with the intention of taking him for your apprentice; is that so, Mr. Gargery? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- So it is with young pheasants reared in England under a hen. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we have found them, how are they to be reared and educated? Plato. The Republic.
- The moment the horse struck the electrified soil he stood straight up in the air, and then reared again; and the crowd yelled, the policeman yelled; and the horse started to run away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- YOU, who from his cradle reared him to be what he was, and stunted what he should have been! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I would betake me with them to some wild beast's den, where a tyger's cubs, which I would slay, had been reared in health. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have fought, said he, for the locomotive single-handed for nearly twenty years, having no engineer to help me until I had reared engineers under my own care. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The new device or frame to which the bees fastened their combs in which brood was reared could be removed, one or all, at any time desired. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Temples have been reared to the Sun--altars dedicated to the Moon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Each of these classes reared its own children in its own fashion, and so naturally kept itself more or less continuously distinct from the others. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was long since it had thus plunged and reared under his widening waistcoat, leaving him, the next minute, with an empty breast and hot temples. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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