High Bred

Matthew Staver for The Wall Street Journal Mrs. Hill included scores of prominent families in the register but she herself would only regularly associate with those she deemed the most high-bred. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She was educated-convent-bred, possibly-and spoke perfect English and better French, her manners were impeccable, and she was as beautiful as only a high-bred octoroon fancy can be, with a figurehead like St Cecilia and a body that would have brought a stone idol howling off its pedestal. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

But against that I argue that the vulgar, cracker-voiced hoyden of Washing-ton was as unlike the high-bred frigid midget of Greystones as could be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The parade of unscrupulous lawyers, tattling servants, vapid society matrons and venal would-be heirs has shown the world not high-bred gentleness but a thoroughly demoralized upper class. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The Shrew Tamed”--a high-bred horse of soft silken coat, dappled with play of light and shade as on velvet--subdued by a “pretty horsebreaker,” is certainly unfortunate as a subject. ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

He nods at my boys, who gaze up at him as if he were some kind of high-bred horse, too big for them to pet but a figure for awestruck admiration, and then he looks back to me. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

Her figure was majestic, her manners high-bred, her reading extensive, and her conversation elegant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And yet these high accomplishments were mixed with an air of rusticity and harebrained vivacity, which seemed rather to belong to some village maid, the coquette of the ring around the Maypole, than to the high-bred descendant of an ancient baron. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It appears to me that we go much too far for an explanation of the legend; a high-bred girl is so like a swan in many points that the idea readily suggests itself. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A critic has complained of my tracing the origin of the Swan-maiden legend to the physical resemblance between the bird and a high-bred girl (vol.v. 346). ❋ Unknown (2006)

While many fine French wines were so elegant and high-bred that they seemed austere, Mondavi's wines had both structure and generosity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was a real Parisian carpet beneath his feet, he saw once more the high-bred type of ❋ Unknown (2007)

Indeed, if we had loved gold and silver goblets, high-bred horses, or no small sums of money, we might in those days have furnished forth a rich treasury. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The man was a tall, handsome, broad-shouldered, high-bred man; and Amyas thought that he was going to display the strength of his arm, and the temper of his blade, in severing the chain at one stroke. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I learn from Mr. Tegetmeier, does not ‘carry’; a high-bred bird of this breed being but a poor flier. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She tries to give high-bred tones to her sharp voice, and succeeds no better in doing that than in hiding her general lack of breeding. ❋ Unknown (2007)