1 Get ye to Gretna Green; couch on the wet grass and breed vipers.
2 She saw in him the peculiar tight rebuff against anyone of the lower classes who might be really climbing up, which she knew was characteristic of his breed.
3 She looked soft and warm herself, as a ripe pear, and she was an amazon of the real old breed.
4 They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as "heath-croppers" here.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 5 The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 6 "It depends upon the breed of men quite as much as on the county," said Dr. Mortimer.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 7 In a basket, swung from his neck, cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.
8 Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
9 His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.
10 I am told you had a remarkable breed of tumblers.
11 And to do this it was necessary to look after the land himself, not to let it, and to breed cattle, manure the fields, and plant timber.
12 They do not breed, nor do they become fewer in number, and they are tended by the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetie, who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera.
13 I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII. 14 Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII. 15 In their marriages, they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.