I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, "that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobility, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are
bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years will permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odious diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
For as offspring resemble their parents, so usury is money
bred of money.
The result has since shown that "what is bred in the bone will break out in the flesh." Commerce was at a standstill; our master passed half his time under arms, as a national guard, in order to keep the revolutionists from revolutionizing the revolution.
{il y a Bourbon et Bourbon = there are Bourbons and Bourbons (i.e., they're all the same); "What is bred in the bone...." = a possibly deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII (1546)}
He had
bred true to the straight wolf-stock--in fact, he had
bred true to old One Eye himself, physically, with but a single exception, and that was he had two eyes to his father's one.
But can you use different animals for the same purpose, unless they are
bred and fed in the same way?
They love to chase things - well, they were
bred to hunt badgers and otters.
65 Flat-coated retriever
Bred to fetch game from land or water.
The winner of the Market Beef
Bred and Owned Champion plaque and gift card was Eran Oglesby.
Ocicats are now seen at many cat shows, and though they are
bred for their spots, they are also seen with four other coat patterns, including ticked, classic tabby, solid, and pointed.
Jim Adkins, founder of the Sustainable Poultry Network-USA, worked for years in the poultry industry before despairing of its exclusive use of hybrids
bred for confinement.