Among the distinct breeds kept in Egypt there was a massive wolf-dog, a large, heavily-built hound with drooping ears and a pointed head, at least two varieties of Greyhound used for hunting the gazelle, and a small breed of terrier or Turnspit, with short, crooked legs.

The number produced at each litter depends upon the character of the breed; 12 being the average number in the small variety, and 10 in the large; in the mixed breeds, however, the average is between 10 and 15, and in some instances has reached as many as 20.

A horseman's handbook on practical breeding.

His honored prisoner and guest, riding a splendid black charger of the purest Arab breed, and surrounded by his chiefs, awaited his return from the field.

On account of the extreme variability of the sheep under culture, it is generally supposed that the innumerable domestic breeds have all been derived from the few wild species; but the whole question is involved in obscurity.

This practice doth plainly signify low spirit, ill-breeding, and bad manners; and thence misbecometh any wise, any honest, any honourable person.

We see the encampments of the tribe, the camels yielding milk and flesh for food, the women friends and councillors of their husbands, the boys inured to arms from early days, the careful breeding of horses, the songs of poet and minstrel stirring all hearts, the mail-clad lines of warriors with lance and sword, the supreme power of the Kingoften dealing out justice with stern, sudden, and inflexible ferocity.

Likewise men had arisen who preached to them discontent, and other races of a lesser breed had joined themselves to them.

From the earliest ages, Great Britain has been distinguished for the excellence of her native breeds of cattle, and there are none in England that have obtained greater celebrity than those which have this name, and which originated, about seventy years ago, on the banks of the Tees.

"Even as the king of birds that with unwearied wing soars nearest to the sun, yet wears upon his breast the softest down,"as we learn from no less eminent authority than that of the Lichfield Courier-Herald"so Mr. Charteris is equally expert in depicting the derring-do and tenderness of those glorious days of chivalry, of fair women and brave men, of gentle breeding, of splendid culture and wholesome living.

We have room for the man who will neighbor here, Who will keep his hands and his conscience clear; We have room for the man who'll respect our laws And pledge himself to our country's cause, But we haven't an inch of land to give To the alien breed that will alien live.

Selective breeding for the production of the best endocrine types should become practicable.

What practical application is made of this law in producing better seed and better breeds?

There is plenty of proof that Foxhounds were the very first of the canine races in Great Britain to come under the domination of scientific breeding.

Mr. Pitt always addressed his mother-in-law with "most powerful respect," and strongly impressed her with his high aristocratic breeding.

But who can drive the numerous breed? Chase one, another will succeed.

All these good, homely folk were Nevill's Courtiers of the genuine breed; born in the court, as had been their fathers before them for generations.

Further, the growths are more common in heavy cart animals of a lymphatic type than in those of a lighter breed.

Rats, pigeons, dogs, and Saturday night eye openerstoned down with canary breeding, ale- supping, herb-gathering, and Sunday afternoon bakingstill retain a mild hold upon the affections of the people, and many of the youthful race are beginning to imitate their elders admirably in all these little particulars.

Moreover, she had been a sportswoman of the rarest breed and merited every kindness he could do for her.

This reckless breed of men.

Her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness, of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance; and her manners showed better sense and better breeding.

Before I thought ye To have a little breeding, some tang of Gentry;

I can conceive no other causes for our having so long acquiesced in the claims of the French to pre-eminent good breeding, in an age when, I believe, no person acquainted with both nations can discover any thing to justify them.

I have witnessed some curious results in mule breeding, and which it may be well enough to mention here.