The lines of the pedigrees of living things break off almost before they begin to converge.

Its character for pride is said to come from the fact of its having been, in the old time, a favourite residence of the local nobles and gentry, and of many penniless folk with long pedigrees.

Some have affected to laugh at the history of the house of Yvery: it would be well if many others would transmit their pedigrees to posterity, with the same accuracy and generous zeal with which the Noble Lord who compiled that work has honoured and perpetuated his ancestry.

" At this time I took little interest in pedigrees, and knew nothing of the "cracks," so the names of those celebrated animals which Dreadnought had beaten are forgotten.

So boast your noble pedigrees And talk of manners, if you please The weary horse enjoys his ease When all his work is done; The willing horse, day in and out, Can hear the merry children shout And every time they are about He shares in all their fun.

They vomited in verse all that they knew; Feign'd causes and beginnings of the world; Fetch'd pedigrees of mountains and of floods From men and women whom the gods transform'd.

The Normans introduced the use of surnames, which tend to preserve the knowledge of families and pedigrees.

But whosoever shall please to look into the records of antiquity shall find their title so unquestioned that the greatest princes in the whole world have been glad to derive their pedigrees, and their power too, from poets.

Others buy titles, coats of arms, and by all means screw themselves into ancient families, falsifying pedigrees, usurping scutcheons, and all because they would not seem to be base.

These dogs were exhibited without pedigrees, but were said to have been bred at the Hospice of St. Bernard.

His Birnie, Monk, Abbess, Grosvenor Hector, and Shah are names which appear in the pedigrees of most of the best dogs of more recent times.

In fact, the National Coursing Club is more particular in connection with the pedigrees of Greyhounds being correctly given, than the Kennel Club is about dogs that are exhibited; and that is saying a great deal.

He must have been a grand old dog, since Mr. McCarthy gave him to Mr. Joliffe Tuffnell in 1849, when he was fifteen years old; and his new owner subsequently bred by him Jack, a dog whose name appears in many pedigrees.

It is not easy to find authentic pedigrees going back further than a quarter of a century, but Mr. C. A. Phillips can trace his own strain back to 1860, and Mr. James Farrow was exhibiting successfully thirty-five years ago.

Though no deception be intended, if pedigrees are lost, criticism is often sorely perplexed to decide upon authorship.

Pearls have pedigrees, my dear fellow, quite as faithfully recorded as those of prize pigs.

Yet David liked him better than all the other finer horses in the judge's stables, notwithstanding that some of these had real pedigrees; for good horses were already appearing in Kentucky.

Aristocrats with pedigrees that shamed those of the Bourbon and the Romanoff were spoken of in language that might possibly have been applicable to the lazzaroni of Naples, that lazzaroni being on the side of the "law and order" classes.

And so, if pedigrees may be trusted, he was.

He will hunt, and build, And superintend his horses' pedigrees; Creates himself a court, gives golden keys, And introduces strictest ceremony In fine proportions, and nice etiquette; Keeps open table with high cheer: in brief, Commences mighty Kingin miniature.

Its flower people can trace their pedigrees back to the floral emigrants from England.

"At this period, much attention was paid to the pedigrees of horses, for the purpose of enhancing their reputation and worth.

The people were already beginning to pay attention to the breeding of their horses, and fine stallions with pedigrees were advertised, though some of the advertisements show a certain indifference to purity of strain; one stallion being quoted as of "mixed fox-hunting and dray" breed.

Pearce, Zachary 572 Pedants 105, 286, 617 Pedigrees, vanity of 612 Peepers 53 Peevish fellow, a 438 Penkethman, W. 31 (Fn. 3), 370 (Fn. 5)

Somewhat more scientific are 'Psychological Aesthetics,' 'The Color Sense,' 'The Color of Flowers,' and 'Flowers and their Pedigrees'; and still deeper is 'Force and Energy' (1888), a theory of dynamics in which he expresses original views.