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Of all their qualities of mutual adaptability the one that impressed him most deeply was the one at which he was always scoffing -- what he called their breeding.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel David Graham Phillips 1889
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They tend to have aggressive personalities very little intellingence and a host of bone joint and muscle disorders from too much in breeding.
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A stupid little thing — not much bigger than a rat, really, almost definitely of uncertain breeding.
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They tend to have aggressive personalities very little intellingence and a host of bone joint and muscle disorders from too much in breeding.
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Blame it on your parents for in breeding. red neck hicks.
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This process of converting fertile isotopes to fissile ones is called breeding.
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Just to clarify: I had thought that joining the army in peacetime was vaguely dishonest for me - probably echoes of European society careering around in my empty young head, where the military was often used as a convenience for idle young hounds of what was then called breeding.
"You know, I actually did" -- Obama actually did consider serving in the military. Ann Althouse 2008
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In a Texas A&M University processing room, yellow carrots were stacked up against maroon, red and orange carrots for strenuous tests to see which would make it to the next step in breeding.
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Horse sports — the non-racing kind — are important to many European countries because of a heavy investment in breeding.
USATODAY.com - Rare judging dispute in equestrian helps American medal haul 2004
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In the early days of the republic, the mass of men were ignorant and uneducated, and willingly submitted to be led by men of education and what was called breeding.
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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