What we in America are apt colloquially to call a thoroughbred is only a horse which, in his looks, shows some decided infusion of good blood, or is sired by a well-bred horse.
I once owned a single-footing mare, who came from Alexander's farm and was sired by Norman, who could single-foot a full mile in three minutes.
Patroclus is said to have been sired in the Old Country out of a cavalry mare brought over by an English officer to Quebec, and there foaled in Her Majesty's service.
Priam,= Calved in 1853; sired in England and calved in America; the property of L.
Hurlbut andsired by Exchange (197); 2d dam Emma bred by Messrs.
This broke up the old-fashioned family where every man chose his own wife and sired as many children as he liked.
Napoleon, the dark and silky black Jersey bull, whose pedigree covered several pages and included such ancestors as Imperial Delight, sired by Royal Edward out of Queen of the Channel Islands, looked every bit an aristocrat.
Sired by the pride of Normandy, and himself the sire of scores of the finest Percherons in Southern Wisconsin, he walked as though a golden armored youth were on his back and plumes behind his ears.
Savage were they, Indian raised and sired by a wolf.
He was used, I am told, a great deal in the stud, and sired a great many more puppies than the doctor ever knew of.
We saw the pups in other places sired by this dog, no matter where bred, similarly marked.
If such cattle were sired by Satan, damned by Sycorax and born in hell they would dishonor their parents and disgrace their country.
Let the thing he had done, sired by the demon of the bottle and mothered by the hell-pit of his flaming passions, breed its own results.
Among them may be mentioned Bar None, who won at the 1882 London Show for the late Mr. James Forshaw, stood for service at his celebrated Carlton Stud Farm for a dozen seasons, and is credited with having sired over a thousand foals.
Duncombe, at Calwich, Harold and Premier, sired many winners, and in those days the Ashbourne Foal Show was worth a journey to see.
We have already seen that he has sired the highest priced Shire mare publicly sold.
In later years the same mare bore two colts, sired by a black Arabian horse.
For example, many dog-breeders assert that if a thoroughbred bitch has ever had pups by a mongrel father, her later offspring, although sired by a thoroughbred, will show taints of the former mongrel mating.
It has already been said that the majority of the best-looking Retrievers are also good working dogs, and it may here be added that many of the most successful working dogs are sired by prize-winners in the show ring.
It was a gelding out of the loins of the north wind and sired by the devil himself, and its spirit was one with the spirit of Jerry Strann; perhaps because they both served one master.
I know you are a man, son of Balogun, and the finest ever sired in Ife.
He was the senhor de engenho, who hadsired mulata bastards from the curing house to the kitchen.
Yu kan find them in the lucky possession ov a blood bay pair ov geldings siredby Casshus M.
Her Bartimaeus and True Blue are magnificent white cats, sired by Mrs. Locke's Lord Gwynne.
Leach, of New London, sired by Mrs. Locke's Smerdis, and the daughter of Rosalys II.
Sylvio was sired by the famous Topso of Dingley (owned by Miss Leake), famous as the best long-haired tabby in England.
Some of the beautiful cats which have been sent from Chicago to homes elsewhere are Teddy Roosevelt, a magnificent white, sired by Mrs. W.
Diomed sired one horse, Sir Archy, who founded a family to which nearly all the blood horses of America trace back.
Sired and grandsired by precious scoundrels, he was but what was to be expected.
Wombwell Rattler, a rattling good one with a softish coat who sired Mr. Offerman's well known crack Ch.
He imported Bruce, a fairish dog, blind in one eye, but useful in stud, where he sired Ch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
