61 examples of bringing-up in sentences

Whether in the simplest home or in the stateliest, there are certain manual things to be done in regard to the care and bringing-up of children, and the conduct of a home.

The difference between country and city bringing-up is the point aimed at; and the difference is about as great as that between the warbling of woodside birds and the jingle of one of OFFENBACH'S tunes on a corner barrel-organ.

" S.F. HARRIS, M.A., B.C.L. MADAME GUYON I. HER BIRTH AND BRINGING-UP.

Well, well, you are a nice little girl; you must have had a good mother, and a good bringing-up.

with all your Quaker bringing-up, I do believe you are just pining for what our Jack would call 'a scrimmage.'

In the garden on the bench under the large apple-tree, Mother and Auntie were sitting mending and conversing over the bringing-up of the children; for Auntie knew many a good advice, quite new and not worn out.

Their bringing-up made him what he was, I am sure.

He had warned Margaret of what was in store for her, before she had taken the final step; but he had not warned himself that in spite of her bringing-up she might get used to it all and end by not resenting it any more than the rest of the professionals with whom she associated.

Now for my daughter, she is my only joy, and the staff of my age; and I have bestowed good bringing-up upon her, by'r Lady.

But the young man has had very simple bringing-up. GRIPE.

Ah, 'tis a nasty shame to see her bringing-up. NURSE.

dost thou know her conditions, her bringing-up, like her person?

They had breathed it in with the atmosphere of their bringing-up.

Well, the boy is right; and you are not fit to direct his bringing-up, if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.

Ease, music, money-making, the affairs of his harem and the bringing-up of his children, are his chief interests, and his plump pale face with long-lashed hazel eyes, his curling beard and fat womanish hands, recall the portly potentates of Hindu miniatures, dreaming among houris beside lotus-tanks.

One does not understand how he should, on any other theory of his bringing-up, have been acquainted with these details"!

"And there never was such a highly moral bringing-up as we children have had.

She was interested in grandmamma's strange bringing-up of me, so different, she said, to the English girls of the present day.

In spite of all grandmamma's stoical bringing-up, it was physical pain I was suffering.

But about the child's bringing-up I have thought a great, great deal.

You must remember his age, the immaculate, ruthless, mid-Victorian 'teens; and you must remember his bringing-up.

In almost all other respects there could hardly have beenfor a quick-witted, precocious, imitative boya worse bringing-up.

Enjoyment came naturally to him beneath his Quaker bringing-up: his youth, good-health and pure, naturally noble intellect, all craved companionship, with its attendant pleasures and joys.

That accounts for Mr. Gavin Smeaton's bringing-up.

It was natural, she supposed; he was clearly very sensitive on the subject of his own humble origin and bringing-up; but she sighed that a perverse youth should so mismanage his opportunities.

61 examples of  bringing-up  in sentences