Rearing

Examples

• If you have not, you are not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a considerable part in the history of the country. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Oh, Crispin, look at that nude youth struggling with the rearing horse! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But he curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His charitable kindness had been rearing a prime comfort for himself. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We also speak of rearing, raising, bringing up--words which express the difference of level which education aims to cover. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The building was an enormous one, rearing its lofty head fully a thousand feet into the air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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