As soon as he had filled his glass, he rose, and drank to the fishermen of Portlossie, their wives and their sweethearts, wishing them a mighty conquest of herring, and plenty of children to keep up the breed and the war on the fish.
It belongs to a native named Halemanu, a great man in the district, for, besides being a member of the legislature, he is deputy sheriff.
Like the 'possum, the backwoodsman presents the spectacle of a creature dwelling exclusively among the works of God, yet these, truth must confess, breed little in him of a godly mind.
To attract them it must provide first-class players, and the county that cannot breed first-class players is forced to hire them.
The reception by the French half-breed residents of Pembina was not now so friendly as that of the previous winter.
On the plain between the Assiniboine and the Saskatchewan, a half-breed community had sprung up.
This petition was signed by nine hundred and seventy-seven persons, and virtually represented the whole French half-breed adult population.
He was the half-breed son of an old French bourgeois of the Northwest Company.
James Sinclair, a member of a most respectable Scotch half-breed family, had obtained the privilege from the Company to export tallow, the product of the buffalo, by way of York Factory to England.
The traders, the Indians, the half-breed trappers, and runners were all new to them.
In his zeal to succeed in the choice he had made for the young lady, this gentleman sent for the half-breed and reprimanded him for aspiring to the hand of a lady, accustomed, as he expressed it, to the first society.
This proposal was accepted, and James Sinclair, the English half-breed leader, undertook the duty.
At the Trakhene stud in Germany a distinct breed has been obtained by the admixture of thoroughbred and Eastern blood.
Palo Alto is about the only half-breed that was a successful trotter, and one campaign finished him.
No breed of horse except the American trotter combines the conformation, speed, and brain, to fulfil these requirements.
It is questionable whether a degenerate race may be restored, within measurable time, by the use of any appreciable amount of its own blood; it is certainly bad policy to found a breed upon poor stock.
Hamlin entered the breeding business, he stated that he proposed to breed not only speed, but beauty; and for years Village Farm was not only the home of the champions, but its produce was the most uniform and beautiful known.
Horses used for racing had always run, but when it was discovered that horses could also be raced at a trot, those that showed speed at this gait were used to breed from, and pains were taken to develop their speeding qualities.
It was contended that they would spoil the roads, ruin the inns along the route by not stopping at them, and do great harm to the breed of horses by promoting speed at the expense of bone and weight.
More of the breed at the same game, and encore, and encore.
These creaturesbreed here in thousands--hear them now above us!
Nothing at all; only I'm a judge of wire-haired terriers, and he has a touch of breed somewhere.
Formica fusca is not something to eat; it's the name of a breed of ants.
There are not many situations in fiction stronger than that where half-breed Tom sells his mother down the river into slavery.
The character of Roxy is thoroughly alive, and her weird relationship with her half-breed son is startling enough.
Nothing will take the various social distempers which the city and artificial life breed out of a man like farming, like direct and loving contact with the soil.
He had few friends, and was not of the breed which can solace itself with the companionship that can be purchased in great cities.
She was not of the breedwhich battens upon that inexpensive brand of literature which converts kitchenmaids into duchesses.
This fable is, in brief, the Inca myth of the origin of civilisation and of man, or at least of their breed of men.
They did this with the less reluctance as they were cannibals, and accustomed to breed children for the purposes of the cuisine from captive women taken in war.
O I have been killing in the silver wood What will breed mickle woe; I have been killing in the silver wood A dawdy and a doe.
The horned and unhorned cattle are not accidental variations, but different species: they will, however, breed together.
The animals here are not remarkably small; perhaps they recruit their breed from the mainland.
Budgerigars breed well in confinement, the season lasting from about December to July, during which two or three broods will be produced.
The breed being of small size should not exceed about five pounds in weight, and many grand ones are to be found under that weight.
Zebra-finches breed freely, especially when kept in cages in a rather warm temperature.
That the House of Commons resolve to stand by their proceedings, and have chosen a Committee to draw up the reasons thereof to carry to the Lords; which is likely to breed great heat between them.
The dogs also breed readily with the wild animals they so closely resemble.
Their flesh is delicious, like pork, but much more delicate flavoured, and they are easily tamed so as to breed in confinement.
Hodgson says of it: "They breed in spring, and usually produce two young about the time the crops ripen.
It is a curious fact that lions breed more readily in travelling menageries than in stationary ones.
Tigresses have young at all seasons of the year, and they breed apparently only once in three years, which is about the time the cubs remain with their mother.
This little animal is supposed tobreed twice in the year--in spring and autumn.
It was a terrible blow to Smokey, but right away the optimism that seems to breed itself in these woods bolstered him to action.
And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see.
Like most birds which breed in the far north, geese are largely nocturnal; their cries as they fly overhead are among the commonest of the sounds which break the stillness of the winter night in Upper India.
Most species of myna breed early in the hot weather, but the pied mynas invariably wait until the first rain has fallen before they set about the work of nest-building.
The terns which breed on islets in Indian rivers do not appear to do much incubating in the daytime.
In presence of General Campbell, I tell you, that though to breed you up in my own political opinions has been for many years my anxious wish, I am now glad that it could not be accomplished.
There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
Muckle and nae little sin does it breed and produce in this world.
Sending marines as diplomats and Mauser bullets as messengers of destruction breed riot and anarchy, and are likely to leave a legacy of age-long hatreds and regrets.
One old man had a good breedof pigs of which he was particularly proud.
For encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and church lands, and for repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage houses.
For improvement of tillage and thebreed of cattle.
Another for the improvement of our breed of horses.
