What's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly And Olivet's breezy.
His mother, who had been bred on Shakespeare, Milton, and the other great poets and writers of the West, devoted her solitary life to the development of higher intellectual tendencies in her gifted little son.
The West Wind called:--"In squadrons the thoughtless galleons fly That bear the wheat and cattle lest street-bred people die.
His sire was leaky of tongue and pen, His dam was a clucking Khuttuck hen; And the colt bred close to the vice of each, For he carried the curse of an unstanched speech.
The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag, They are lifting their heads in the stillness to yelp at the English Flag!
With home-bred hordes the hillsides teem, The troop-ships bring us one by one, At vast expense of time and steam, To slay Afridis where they run.
Then the old man gave them the following account:-- "I was born and bred in the island of Tory.
He had become a guest at Madame Aubry's, but he was too well bred to ask so great a favor of her so soon.
It is my natural language and mother tongue, for I was born and bred in my younger years in the garden of France, to wit, Touraine.
They bred there in thousands; but we did not land or go very close, so I had no chance of seeing much.
They were graceful little birds and no doubt bredhere later.
Some of Mrs. Tupper's neighbors were inclined to joke at first at her appetite for bulletins, her belief in experts, and her rigid insistence on pure-bred stock and poultry.
It was in the hands of the town-bred essayist that our literature first became urbane.
We gossiped of Captain Taylor's half-bred child, Wee James at school down East, of Tearful George married to that dreadful young person at Eighty Mile House who scratched herself at meals, so Jesse said.
Feeling ill-bred and common, I begged Billy's pardon, made him sit down, tried ever so hard to put him at his ease.
On the other hand, celibacy bred a contempt for womanhood and assailed the integrity of the family.
He had not been gone long before the Convent-bred child with her precise phrases began to get on the nerves of the irrepressible Natalie.
Very trimly and quietly dressed, sufficiently well-bred to accept the situation as a matter of course.
There is certainly something very charming in the society of well-bred women.
First came the question: "Why were Moses and the Jews the best bred people in the world?
Our friend Nix asked why Moses and the Jews were the best-bred people in the world?
Of course it be, Sir Within; but ain't it a strange sort of wandering for one bred and brought up as she was?
I own to you I was proud to think of the high-hearted girl, bred up in poverty, and tried by the terrible test of 'adoption' to forget her humble origin.
The Lewellings are types of fruit-breeders who have done noble work for pomology in the settlement of all our states--men of for indomitable courage and will who have bred and grown fruits throughout their lives in spite of every adversity.
In several Duke cherries all of the seeds collected at this Station are sterile; in others, most of them are sterile and in none are the seeds as fertile as in varieties known to be pure bred as to species.
It is a virile variety and from it have come several promising seedlings and it is one of the parents of a number of cross-bred cherries.
Its botanical position is not certain, but it is probable that it is a cultural variety of Pseudocerasus, especially bred for stock purposes.
At last a spot was reached where the forest-bred boys paused.
Born and bred though they had been at the mill in the great forest that covered almost the whole of the district of Sauveterre, they were no true children of the mill.
And whilst they still hesitated -- for the fear of treachery was never absent from the minds of those bred up in habits and thoughts of treachery -- another wonder happened.
There was something evidently well-bred about Jac; something in the brilliant eyes, the tempting smile, the tall slender figure which gave her a style of her own.
Marmier, the poet and dilettante, and Madame de Merlin, the high-bred and intellectual woman.
He had a great longing to marry out of this society; but he had not yet seen any one sufficiently high-born and high-bred to satisfy his aspirations.
Against their kind the land Rats took the water And swomme in little armies to the house, And, though we drownd and killed innumerable, Their numbers were like Hydra's heads increasing; Ruine bred more untill our brother died.
Tis good indeed and I had rather drinke Such beare as this as any Gascoine Wine: But tis our English manner to affect Strange things, and price them at a greater rate, Then home-bred things of better consequence.
Bred in the Jewish faith, he brought to his writings the traditions of his ancestry.
So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonized, With widening retrospect that bred despair.
Her tone and style were those of a high-bred gentlewoman.
In this case, custom with her neverbred familiarity.
Dear creeds have made men kill each other, Fair faith has bred hate and despair, And brother has battled with brother Because of a difference in prayer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
