highbred

How to use highbred in a sentence

• Isabel had a glimpse of a delicate high-bred face set like a panel in a parted curtain.

  Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton

• Among these showy and high-bred soldiers, the hours passed delightfully.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. | Various

• From these have descended the high-bred, silken-fleeced Saxons, whose wool stands confessedly without a rival.

  Domestic Animals | Richard L. Allen

• The features were of the same high-bred cast, pure and refined; you might have said they were made in the same mould.

  Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry Wood

• Among these women, I have found some of the most delicate, high-bred, and cultivated women whom I have ever known of the same age.

  The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. Dall