A tall, black hound, of the slender breed, rose up near Honoria, and, placing his fore-paws upon the edge of the pearl table, turned and licked her face and eyes.

I felt inclined to sing instead a song, written by a soldier who was wounded in France: "The Bishop tells us, 'when the boys come back They will not be the same; for they'll have fought In a just cause: they led the last attack On Anti-Christ; their comrades' blood has bought New right to breed an honourable race.

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.

The small cows of the Alderney breed afford the richest milk.

The breed of the cow has received great improvement in modern times, as regards the quantity and quality of the milk which she affords; the form of milch-cows, their mode of nourishment, and progress, are also manifest in the management of the dairy. 1612.

* And lest by length of time it be pretended The climate may this modern breed ha' mended, Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care.

Rats have been his medium of study, for they are most easily procurable, live fastest, breed, and withstand experimental and operative procedures better than any other animal.

The kindergarten takes this for one of its texts, and does not breed that dismal fungus of the mind "which disposes one to believe that the pursuit of knowledge must necessarily be disagreeable.

It is always safer, no doubt, to appeal to a love of pleasure in children than to a fear of pain, yet bribes and extraneous rewards inevitably breed selfishness and corruption, and lead the child to expect conditions in life which will never be realized.

The plains produce corn, rice, and indigo; the forests of cedar, ilex, cork, and olive-trees are scattered over a vast extent, and contain antelopes, wild bears, and other species of game; Barbary also possesses an excellent breed of horses.

I supped with him often on a sucking-pig, for the Christians breed pigs in this place, to the horror of pious Mussulmen.

"The daughter of a squaw-man then," he said, and there was in his voice the contempt of the white man for the half-breed.

And he still bore traces, albeit they were not very apparent at that moment, of the breed from which he had sprung.

For the life in the land develops men, Men of an alien breed, A new made lot, that couldn't be bought, And strangers to graft or greed.

A Cabin, a Squaw, and a Fishwheel, A bend in the river's flow, A band of half-naked breed kids He stayed there, a sourdough.

HOW LONG? As long as lure o' placer gold Brings North the best ye breed, As long as tales of camps and trails Are planted with your seed, As long as red blood courses thru And warms adventure's sons, They'll sally forth, bound for the North, Misfortune's chosen ones.

" Way back in the "eighties" when I'm just a kid, I crossed up with a breed gal I'd met One winter at Circle; she cleaned me that year And skipped out with all she could get.

But the Northland gets a sterner breed To fuse in its harder mould.

It's the breed of men that don't know fail; That's the breed of men that hit the trail For the fabled land of gold.

It's the breed of men that don't know fail; That's the breed of men that hit the trail For the fabled land of gold.

And the efforts he makes as he strives to win Are a credit to him and his breed, And the gods will count and give full amount And accept the act for the deed.

And the age old lust of conquest that taints all of your breed.

If they answer no, the kindred then send for a person, whose office it is to strangle the sick person, whom they immediately cut in pieces and devour, even to the marrow of their bones, for they allege, that if any part were to remain, worms would breed in it, which would be in want of food, and would therefore die, to the great torture of the soul of the dead person.

And the chast womb informe with timely seed, That may our comfort breed: Till which we cease our hopefull hap to sing, Ne let the woods us answer, nor our eccho ring.

35 And ye, faire blossoms of youths wanton breed!