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Meanings of high breeding in English
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Usage of high breeding in English
1
That she, a lady of rank and high breeding, gentle, delicate, tender-hearted.
2
Words cannot picture the superb high breeding shown in this utterance.
3
Her air and her costume alike intimated high breeding and fashion.
4
Although a Tory, even Macaulay acknowledges Pembroke's high breeding and liberality.
5
To be seen by ladies of such high breeding in such vulgar attitudes!
6
What a wonderful thing this thing they call high breeding is!
7
In general, farmers cross improved animals of high breeding values with the crossbred ones.
8
This was no guise in which to meet a woman of her high breeding.
9
Mr Hamilton exhibited a remarkable union of scholarship, high breeding, and amiability of disposition.
10
Hands and feet, exquisitely shaped, are expressive of high breeding.
11
He seemed more proud of this peasant stock than of his father's high breeding.
12
Mr. Baring was pompous in his high breeding-thefirst gentleman in Europe was pompous also.
13
She is quiet, amiable, and shows her high breeding in her good manners and intelligence.
14
He did not give the impression of high breeding.
15
She had no experience to guide her: only her high breeding and her virginal instincts.
16
Every act, and even his tones, indicated high breeding, and she keenly appreciated such things.
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