Do we say hybrid or highbred

hybrid 112 occurrences

But you have to look at the man as he will be, the hybrid mixture of East and West.

We were told that the name of the hill was "Rosaspata," a word of modern hybrid originpata being Quichua for "hill," while rosas is the Spanish word for "roses."

Tradition assigned him a hybrid origin.

Several hybrid derivations have been suggested, none of them probable, and I lean to the suggestion that the starting-point of the word may have been "jumkhana", a term which, though it is not in Forbes's Hindustani Dictionary, I have heard a native apply to a large cotton carpet, such as native acrobats, or wrestlers, might spread when about to give a performance.

The return from Teutonic to Roman standards of taste, which marked the advent of humanism, introduced a hybrid manner.

Alongside this unmatched pictorial vividness and a quite amazing richness and rhythm of language, more surprising and original than anything out of Shakespeare, there are of course, striking defectsa wearisome reiteration of emphasis, a clumsiness of construction, a saddening fondness for solecisms and hybrid inventions of his own.

Yet Papeete is a little place, a mile or so in length and less in width, a curious imposition of European houses and manners upon a Tahitian hamlet, hybrid, a mixture of loveliness and ugliness, of nature savage and tamed.

But there is another form of industry that is a ghastly hybrid, the "home-work" that has been born of the union of advanced factory methods and primitive home appliances.

He came into the world to create a new and inimitable style of hybrid beauty in those gates of Paradise.

The watch, pure and simple, will not come; but some hybrid structure appearssomething round, perhapsbut it lapses into a warming-pan or other unexpected object.

If the Suffolk maids felt any hesitancy about accepting the hybrid combination as their equals, it was never manifested by word or deed.

To penetrate the thin disguises in which the author has dressed his notabilities and to sort the composite or hybrid personalities into their component parts should provide the initiated with congenial if not very edifying occupation.

The fundamental cause of all the sufferings of the Rumanian principalities was the hybrid 'hereditary-elective' system of succession to the throne, which prevailed also in most of the neighbouring countries.

Consequently, when a second Congress met in Paris, in May 1858, three months of discussion and the sincere efforts of France only resulted in a hybrid structure entitled the 'United Principalities'.

Hybrid of horror.

Hybrid of horror.

Jazz: hot and hybrid.

The auctioneers cry their wares in mingled French and English, and the negroes and white laborers on the levee converse in a hybrid language.

Spenser, however, was himself too much influenced by the popular impulse for his example to be decisive in favour of the regular tradition, while, by the time Milton wrote, a hybrid form had established itself on a more or less secure basis and a modus vivendi had already been achieved.

To substantiate this claim and to show how far the vitality of the English pastoral was due to its hybrid origin will be my chief aim in this chapter.

Lollio also produced a hybrid of an earlier type in his Aretusa.

In general, the fruit is very acid, but in a variety known as the sweet lemon, or bergamot (said to be a hybrid of the orange and lemon), the juice is sweet.

They were Mexicans, a hybrid mixture of Spanish atrocity and Indian cruelty.

It is a hybrid.

the hybrid angel!

highbred 5 occurrences

Dick Stanmore had bought him out of training at Newmarket by his groom's advice, and the highbred animal, being ridden by an exceedingly good horseman, had turned out a far better hunter than commonnot invariably the case with horses that begin life on the Heath.

The great lady received her guests with urbanity, and led the conversation with highbred courtesy and tact.

The roll of dark hair framed her face, highbred, aristocratic, yet wholly human and sweet.

Her voice, as he noted once more, was clear and full, her enunciation without provincial slur, clean and highbred.

He beheld a creature in all the gentle bloom of highbred beautytall, well-formed, and radiating a sort of natural elegance, with a fine-shaped, expressive face, to which great speaking eyes and a mouth half pensive, half smiling, lent an air of rare distinction.

Do we say   hybrid   or  highbred