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Sentences ending with bred

His mother is the dearest lady I have ever known, so quiet, so dignified, and so well bred. [9]
Woman's happiness depends so much upon the continuation of the surroundings and sympathies in which she is bred. [4]
To such observance of it I was born and bred. [6]
Instead of setting her out to ask all sorts of questions, I would rather, if I had my way, encourage her to form a habit of attending to religious duties, and make the most of the simple faith in which she was bred. [6]
His notions of disease were based on what he had observed, seen always in the light of the traditional doctrines in which he was bred. [3]
For have you all not the same hearts, being British born and bred? [11]

Sentences containing bred two or more times

His breath bred pestilence and conflagration, and his appetite bred famine. [5]

More example sentences with the word bred in them

He was twenty-five years old, college bred, and had finished a post-college course in an Eastern law school a couple of years before. [5]
The young Marylander, who was born and bred to that mode of worship, had introduced her to the chapel, for which he did the honors for such of our boarders as were not otherwise provided for. [6]
When a man who has been bred to free thought and free speech suddenly finds himself stepping about, like a dancer amidst his eggs, among the old addled majority-votes which he must not tread upon, he is a spectacle for men and angels. [6]
Abner Briggs, Junior, was a great, hulking fellow, who had been bred to butchering, but urged by his parents to attend school, in order to learn the elegant accomplishments of reading and writing, in which he was sadly deficient. [6]
It is not true that civilization or cultivation has bred out of the world the liking for a story. [4]
Mr. Colfax was too well bred to inquire further; so he never found out that Mr. Brice was writing an account of the Convention and the speechmaking for the Missouri Democrat. [9]
All this points to the fact that she was bred to be an ornamental rather than what is called a useful member of society. [6]
Lord Rippingdale suggested to his Majesty that one of the gentlemen should ride ahead to guard against surprise or ambush, but the King laughed, and said that his shire of Lincoln bred no brigands, and he rode on. [11]
It is easy to distinguish the young ladies--many of them beautifully dressed, and handsome on first acquaintance--who have been bred on this kind of book. [4]
At any rate, they undertake the lighter menial duties of some household where they are not known, and, having stooped--if stooping it is to be considered--to lowly offices, no born and bred servants are more faithful to all their obligations. [6]
Nathaniel Lyon, with the wild red hair and blue eye, born and bred a soldier, ordered to St. Louis, and become subordinate to a wavering officer of ordnance. [9]
Upon examination of the corn stored in casks, it was found half-rotten, and the rest consumed by rats, which had bred in thousands from the few which came over in the ships. [4]
If aptitudes for the acquisition of knowledge can be bred into a family as the qualities the sportsman wants in his dog are developed in pointers and setters, we know what we may expect of a descendant of one of the Academic Races. [6]
He told me that the first pair of rabbits imported into Australasia bred so wonderfully that within six months rabbits were so thick in the land that people had to dig trenches through them to get from town to town. [5]
Out of the suspicions you bred in me years ago, has grown this result, --to wit, that I shall within the twelvemonth get $40,000 out of this "Tramp" instead Of $20,000. [5]
To a lad such as I, bred in a quiet tho' prosperous colonial town, a walk through London was a revelation. [9]
But Australasia is strictly democratic, and reserves and restraints are things that are bred by differences of rank. [5]
It seems to show that there isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it. [5]
Will he have shortened down to four feet and a little more, like the Esquimaux, or will he have been bred up to seven feet by the use of new chemical diets, ozonized and otherwise improved atmospheres, and animal fertilizers? [6]
And so one saw a new thing now; a thing bred of the emotion that was present there on both sides. [5]
But my tongue rebelled at the very sight of my uncle ('twas bred into me, I suppose), and his fairest words seemed to me to contain a hidden sting. [9]
And you who read this an hundred years hence may not believe the marvels of it to the pioneer, and in particular to one born and bred in the scanty, hard soil of the mountains. [9]
Or a living product of galvanic action, Like the status bred in Crosses flint-solution? [6]
It is a palace, high-roofed, marble-columned, vast, magnificent, everything but homelike, and perhaps homelike to persons born and bred in such edifices. [6]
Here, in Sodom, painted vice had lain for an hundred years and bred half the crime of a century. [9]
That friend--single gentleman, or younger brother, which you will--had at his heart a heavy sorrow; but it bred in him no misanthropy or monastic gloom. [12]
Of course we never try to keep young souls in the tadpole state, for fear they should get a pair or two of legs by-and-by and jump out of the pool where they have been bred and fed! [6]
I had by my owne huswiferie bred above 37, and the most part of them my owne poultrye; of all which, at my comyng awaie, I did not see three living. [4]
It is, however, more probable that these colours have been intensified through artificial selection, as this species has been carefully bred in China from a remote period. [1]
But the greatest miracle of the night was little Jacob, who ate oysters as if he had been born and bred to the business--sprinkled the pepper and the vinegar with a discretion beyond his years--and afterwards built a grotto on the table with the shells. [12]
Next to the mansion-houses, came the two-story trim, white-painted, "genteel" houses, which, being more gossipy and less nicely bred, crowded close up to the street, instead of standing back from it with arms akimbo, like the mansion-houses. [6]
But no, this man had never been born and bred in the far North. [11]
It is a luxury almost monopolized by the rich in cities, bred under glass like their forced pine-apples and peaches. [6]
She held herself like a queen, and walked like one, not a stage queen, but one born and bred to self-reliance, and command of herself as well as others. [6]
I do not know how long ago that idea was bred in me, but I know that I cannot remember back to a time when the thought of either of these symbols of gracious and unapproachable perfection did not at once suggest the other. [5]
Makes him do it unconsciously--being bred in him, you see, and never thought over and reasoned out. [5]
I had noticed, in other foreign languages, that verbs are bred in families, and that the members of each family have certain features or resemblances that are common to that family and distinguish it from the other families--the other kin, the cousins and what not. [5]
My father got his best strain in Nevada from Indians who claimed their horses were bred down from the original stock left by the Spaniards. [13]
The fear of her coming to poverty has perhaps been bred in me by that. [12]
She had indeed heard him give vent to a mitigated indignation against foreigners in general, but now the old-school Americanism in which he had been bred, the Americanism of individual rights, of respect for the convention of property, had suddenly sprung into flame. [9]
The lame, the halt, the blind, the leprous--all the distempers that are bred of indolence, dirt, and iniquity--were represented in the Congress in ten minutes, and still they came! [5]
Perhaps that came from an everlasting patience which her life had bred in her; perhaps it was the powerful gift of one in touch with the remote, primitive things. [11]
Away down here fifty-five degrees south of the Equator this sea seems to murmur in an unfamiliar tongue--a foreign tongue--tongue bred among the ice-fields of the Antarctic--a murmur with a note of melancholy in it proper to the vast unvisited solitudes it has come from. [5]
I can have Felix Marchand put in the jug, and make his old father, Hector Marchand, sick; but I like old Hector Marchand, and I think he's bred as bad a pup as ever was. [11]
It is that famous nursery of learning where you, too, were bred up. [10]
Sir R. Heron during many years kept an account of the habits of the peafowl, which he bred in large numbers. [1]
It compels the conviction that there was something about him that bred in those speculators a quite unusual sense of safety, and encouraged them to strain their powers in his behalf. [5]
Storms bred elsewhere come here full-grown: they come in couples, in quartets, in choruses. [4]
Lincoln saw this clearly; but he saw also that, in a protracted death struggle, it might still have kept disloyal sentiments alive, bred distracting commotions, and caused great mischief to the country. [7]
There was a chance, too, to pick up available acquaintances, for many rich people sent their daughters to the school, and it was something to have been bred in their company. [6]
The idea was certainly good, but it bred infinite bother; for although Smith, Jones, and Johnson are easy names to remember when there is no occasion to remember them, it is next to impossible to recollect them when they are wanted. [5]
During the memorable century which bred and bore the Revolution, the medical profession gave great names to our history. [3]
How born or bred, and or nourished upon blows and threats on one side, and retorts and defiances on the other, is not to the purpose. [12]
And these people, bred on this pabulum, in turn make books. [4]
O Tom Canty, born in a hovel, bred in the gutters of London, familiar with rags and dirt and misery, what a spectacle is this! [5]
The public is better bred than to carry on an ecclesiastical controversy in terms which political brawlers would hardly think admissible. [6]
No, no,--I have been bred to humble toil all my days, and I could not be to you what you ought to ask. [6]
Hopkinses they shall be bred and taught, and Hopkinses they shall be called. [6]
But his whole appearance showed plainly enough that he was bred to occupations of a very different nature, if, in deed, he had been accustomed to any kind of toil for his living. [6]
He was tall and slender, with the complexion which is bred in the alcove and not in the open air. [6]
I was born and bred, as I have told you twenty times, among books and those who knew what was in books. [6]
She was country-born and bred, and her blood had been charged by a prairie instinct passing through three generations. [11]
But when I am told I must leave it altogether to other people to say whether new partners are to be bred up and brought into the firm, on the same degrading terms against me, I respectfully demur. [7]
But remember that all sailors are more or less superstitious: it is bred in them; it is constitutional, and I am afraid there's a good deal of the sailor in me yet. [11]
It was such a scramble as young ladies enjoy, especially if they are city bred, for it seems to them an achievement of more magnitude than to the country lasses who see nothing uncommon or heroic in following a cow-path. [4]

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