Bred

Examples

• The offered hand--rather large, but beautifully formed--was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A doleful place to be born and bred in, Tattycoram? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Bred in the country, he had attentively observed the effect of lightning on trees and cattle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Wasn't I a woman delicately bred; and he,--God in heaven! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• As to Twemlow, he is so sensible of being a much better bred man than Veneering, that he considers the large man an offensive ass. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Bute could not disguise from herself the fact that none of her party could so contribute to the pleasures of the town-bred lady. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Double sorrow--sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But I'm always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He bred his cows for milk. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The idea of my being aristocratic and well-bred, and your being afraid to go anywhere alone! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A well-bred servant, in a cocked hat and dashing livery entered my room, with many bows. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then there was a little quiz of a lord, or rather an earl, who had long been married to a high-bred foreigner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was a peer of France, and certainly one of the best bred and most imposingly respectable men I ever had the good fortune to meet with. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The active life to which he had been born and bred had given him something else to do than to join the futile chase of the pleasure-hunter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Little Sophia, bred in the school of nature, handled her brother rather oddly, I thought. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Amy was too well-bred, and just now Laurie was too lazy, so in a minute he peeped under her hatbrim with an inquiring air. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was ill-bred; it was wrong. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Though it's astonishing how much those thorough-bred creatures can do and suffer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Rawdon Crawley paid scarcely any attention to Dobbin, looking upon him as a good-natured nincompoop and under-bred City man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British female reigns supreme. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My good mistress, like the generous high-bred woman she was, refused to let us be treated like thieves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Yvonne