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Example sentences for "reared"

Lexicographically close words:
reappointment; reapportionment; reaps; rear; reare; rearer; rearguard; rearguards; rearing; rearmament
  1. Many Greeks were in full sympathy with the Phoenician norm; many Phoenicians must have been capable of delighting in the Greek norm had they been reared to it.

  2. He was born in the camp, probably in Germany, and was reared among the soldiers.

  3. Servius was born and reared at the palace of the king.

  4. But if they did, I am sure it was a quadruped that reared and bucked and kicked up its heels.

  5. It would suggest houses built by mammoths out of mountains; the cities reared by elephants in their own elephantine school of architecture.

  6. The sympathies in which these nineteenth-century people were reared were all against Front-de-Boeuf and in favour of Rebecca.

  7. For it has begun to occur to poets that it may not have been merely anuntoward accident that several of their loftiest brethren were reared in London.

  8. Shelley, too, portrays a poet reared in civilization, but escaping to nature.

  9. I have bred in the same aviaries many pigeons of different kinds, and never reared a single bird of an impure strain.

  10. The moths reared from these caterpillars (8/73.

  11. I have given these details, because no other case, as far as I know, has been so carefully recorded by a competent observer of the progress of change in wild birds reared for several generations in a domestic condition.

  12. Of the many chickens reared from the above six crosses the majority were black, both in the down and in the first plumage; some were white, and a very few were mottled black and white.

  13. He sowed winter-wheat in spring, and out of one hundred plants four alone produced ripe seeds; these were sown and resown, and in three years plants were reared which ripened all their seed.

  14. Those which were reared were absolutely sterile when crossed inter se or with either parent.

  15. The same difference has been observed in the hides of the cattle reared on the bleak Falkland Islands and on the temperate Pampas.

  16. I reared in the first and second generation, during the course of only three or four years, a considerable number of young birds, more or less plainly coloured blue, and with most of the characteristic marks.

  17. With the money he made out of it, he reared a rather lofty mansion, which was promptly christened the Lighthouse.

  18. Now this island reared about forty milch cows, besides young cattle and sheep, and at the period when might meant right in Ireland the inhabitants, having some surplus stock, took possession of another island to feed them on.

  19. How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, lifted herself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life.

  20. Since they had been reared in the open air they were certainly accustomed to the wind, and to the way in which it moves trees and branches, so that they were not alarmed by a phenomenon which they recognized from experience.

  21. I then took the sparrow out of the cage and put in a finch, which had also been taken from the nest, but was reared far from such a machine, and he was frightened and did not reconcile himself to it for some time.

  22. They, in the mean time, had reared on the shore a vast pile of logs of pine and oak, the sides of which they had interlaced with smaller boughs.

  23. The fiery horse reared upward in the death agony, and then fell backward upon his rider, pressing him to the earth.

  24. Inside the yard there were twelve sties for the pigs, and the swineherd kept four watch-dogs to guard the place, great beasts and fierce as wolves, that he had reared himself.

  25. This queen had been reared as the daughter of Tyndarus and Queen Leda, but some say that she was the child of an enchanted swan, and there was indeed a strange spell about her.

  26. Troy, and I in Thebes, where my great father, Eëtion, reared me as a little child.

  27. It was the hound Argus, whom Ulysses had reared himself long ago before the war, but had to leave behind when he went away to Troy.

  28. Who reared the Titanic monuments of Stonehenge and Abury we know not.

  29. We know not who constructed the extraordinary animal-mounds of Wisconsin in North America--mounds hundreds of feet long, reared a few feet above the level plains, in the figures of men and beasts and birds and reptiles.

  30. She reared a second time, and then, too, he almost fell off.

  31. They all went to his mother: 'What manner of son is this that you have reared up?

  32. She reared him, and placed him in a position to become a hero.

  33. It soon swam to the other side of the lake, and, all exasperated, rushed to the burning pile, reared itself up against the fir, and pushed the poor man into the fire.

  34. There is the stripped, overhead twig, where a moose has reared on hind legs and nibbled a branch above.

  35. Adopting the three little wild-cats, the trapper had reared them past blind-eyes, past colic and dumps and all the youthful ills to which live kittens are heirs, when trouble began.

  36. She had been reared to neatness and order, and to economy which valued even a reel of cotton too much to see it needlessly soiled.

  37. For the first time this something reared itself up and opposed her will.

  38. Tortured by his crawling presence she reared like a horse pestered by crawling flies.

  39. Many of those who escaped the perils of the river, and had reared their log-cabins amid the cane-brakes of Kentucky, were doomed to encounter the same ruthless foe, and fell victims to the same unrelenting cruelty.

  40. He is reported to have lived forty years with one wife, and to have reared a numerous family of children, who both loved and esteemed him.

  41. He had been raised by the Indians, among whom he had married, and reared several children.

  42. And fear the song too taught him; fear to be Worthless the dear love of the wind and sea That bred him fearless, like a sea-mew reared In rocks of man's foot feared, Where nought of wingless life may sing or shine.

  43. Indeed, by an actual test, with fish of like origin and character in each series, the fish reared in the fourth series were found to grow faster, to an important degree, than those in the first.

  44. There are several conditions which must be secured for every child to insure that it may be born and reared according to high standards.

  45. Since my child was to be reared in the midst of murderers and thieves, I, too, would haunt their abodes.

  46. The allusion is probably to Caligula's being reared in the island of Capri.


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