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  • Langdon occasionally ribbed Peter that the lone tarnish on his sterling pedigree was his diploma from a second-rate university—Yale.†   (source)
  • In fact, she seemed to think I was exaggerating the pedigree of this place.†   (source)
  • Unlike mass-produced cars, however, mass-produced pedigree puppies can come with serious hereditary problems, running the gamut from hip dysplasia to early blindness, brought on by multigenerational inbreeding.†   (source)
  • Some horn players use a brass instrument, and some use nickel-silver, and the kind of horn the person is playing tells you something about what city they come from, their teacher, and their school, and that pedigree is something that influences your opinion.†   (source)
  • I might think that—except that no one's imprinting on me, notwithstanding my impressive pedigree.†   (source)
  • And this one's got a pedigree like no other.†   (source)
  • You're a stud with an impeccable military pedigree.†   (source)
  • I have spent the last eighty years and more listening to a lady detail the pedigree of every dinner guest tonight.†   (source)
  • He was of unknown pedigree.†   (source)
  • "An overweight high school principal who barely finished college, and a pack of angry housewives with pedigrees that couldn't rival Boo Radley's, hardly qualify."†   (source)
  • With hints of pedigree not even remotely possible, her handlers could not speculate on her size or temperament.†   (source)
  • Earlier in the year, he added to this pedigreed resume his appointment as the undersecretary of state to John Foster Dulles.†   (source)
  • He has escorted women of unimpeachable breeding and pedigree.†   (source)
  • Friends of mine who had gone to "real Harvard" said that displaying one's Harvard pedigree was "not the thing to do," as if people could tell you went to Harvard by your ambience alone.†   (source)
  • Fine old families; their pedigrees ensure a large degree of sticking together and giving advice to one another.†   (source)
  • Had John justified his unfaithfulness by qualifying our marriage as one of convenience: good family, good pedigree, breed her and keep her on to raise the children while he takes to the streets to satisfy his more pressing needs?†   (source)
  • What's more,' he added with satisfaction, 'Angus tells me that knowing the neighbourhood so well he has got attested pedigrees for them.†   (source)
  • No doubt tidy, Martha Stewart, heirloom pedigree animals enclosed in chintz pens.†   (source)
  • A curved, gilded staircase dominates the area, creating a picture-perfect setting for couples with long dresses and tuxes, tasteful accents and pedigrees.†   (source)
  • As you can imagine, its pedigree and properties make it priceless.†   (source)
  • I was a young man, yes, but one of some learning and modest position as a junior officer, and if it was true that I was trained in a military school, not having his kind of university pedigree, it still seemed somewhat unfair of the doctor to belittle me so before a ward of enlisted men.†   (source)
  • She had many papers, like pedigrees, that told of various ancestors.†   (source)
  • She was a beautiful American of flawless Protestant pedigree who had worked for the CIA and, occasionally, for the Office.†   (source)
  • This was rather mortifying to George, who had paid a stiff price for Fey and her pedigree.†   (source)
  • For the next week I thought lovingly of Mimi, whose character was so superior to the character of fancy-pedigreed, college-educated women.†   (source)
  • But you'll labor like Thomas Aquinas over a rat-dog's pedigree.†   (source)
  • I had no pedigree, no inherited title; so in the king's and nobles' eyes I was mere dirt; the people regarded me with wonder and awe, but there was no reverence mixed with it; through the force of inherited ideas they were not able to conceive of anything being entitled to that except pedigree and lordship.   (source)
  • Apparently, having a Capitol pedigree is as useless here as it was in 13.†   (source)
  • Pictures and pedigrees and log sheets and notes, everywhere he looked.†   (source)
  • Woolf had the ideal pedigree for a jockey.†   (source)
  • Attaining an officer's rank was of supreme importance to Watanabe, and when he applied to become an officer, he probably thought that acceptance was his due, given his education and pedigree.†   (source)
  • I am sorry to say this, but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times, some of the highest pedigree, which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above showing off to guests a butler's mastery of such trivial accomplishments.†   (source)
  • Our interviews weren't so much about grades or résumés, we were told; thanks to a Yale Law pedigree, one foot was already in the door.†   (source)
  • Cynthia was wealthy and pedigreed; she'd been educated in private schools, then an elite finishing academy.†   (source)
  • In order to select a foundation stock of just twenty-one animals, we examined the pedigree data of hundreds of candidates, cross-indexed against their show and working titles.†   (source)
  • At night, there was the house rotation schedule, bringing in pairs or trios, and the pedigree research, and visits by stud dogs, and the heat schedules of the mothers, and the practice placements and negotiations with potential owners.†   (source)
  • Those breeding records—so many drawers overflowing with log sheets, photographs, notes, pedigrees—Gar loved them.†   (source)
  • He retreated across photographs and pedigrees scattered over the floor like a lunatic's history of the kennel.†   (source)
  • Eventually, of course, Mimi would have to be put aside for some drab woman of sound pedigree with all the social graces, but Mimi would surely understand that.†   (source)
  • And this, as Merlyn drew it later, was what the magician called its pied-de-grue: Earl of Cornwall = Igraine = Uther Pendragon Morgan le Fay Elaine Lot = Morgause = Arthur Gawaine Agravaine Gaheris Gareth Mordred Even if you have to read it twice, like something in a history lesson, this pedigree is a vital part of the tragedy of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Any pedigree made a courtier of him, and he could call on a very high manner, if he wanted to, and get his lips into a tight suppressive line of dislike to baseness--the opposite to breeding.†   (source)
  • He wanted a trunk of pedigree.†   (source)
  • He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest "phiz" in dogdom.†   (source)
  • I think that parson who unearthed your pedigree would have done better if he had held his tongue.†   (source)
  • 'That pedigree I will give thee now—in my own fashion and some hard words as well.'†   (source)
  • "Shepherd would like to hear the pedigree of yer life, father— wouldn't ye, shepherd?"†   (source)
  • But I don't care a pin for my pedigree; I want to belong to my time.†   (source)
  • I saw the two read the white stallion's pedigree.†   (source)
  • I mean the long pedigrees and the high noses, and all that.†   (source)
  • The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.†   (source)
  • Indeed a white stallion's pedigree is not a good thing to peddle to Sahibs!†   (source)
  • 'It must be the pedigree of that made-up horse-lie,' said he, 'the thing that I carry to Umballa.†   (source)
  • Was it some matter of a bay mare that Peters Sahib wished the pedigree of?'†   (source)
  • Sorrowful delayed pedigree which am translating.'†   (source)
  • A message concerning the pedigree of a white stallion.'†   (source)
  • 'The pedigree of the white stallion is fully established.'†   (source)
  • 'So the message to that officer will be: "The pedigree of the white stallion is fully established."†   (source)
  • At Umballa I carried the news of the bay mare's pedigree.'†   (source)
  • It concerns the pedigree of a white stallion.'†   (source)
  • And Richard would have served under her, cheerfully; he had the greatest respect for her; he cherished these romantic views about well-set-up old women of pedigree, and would have liked, in his good-humoured way, to bring some young hot-heads of his acquaintance to lunch with her; as if a type like hers could be bred of amiable tea-drinking enthusiasts!†   (source)
  • In talking over the question of relationship it turned out that the prince was very well up in the matter and knew his pedigree off by heart.†   (source)
  • But the reader does not get his intellectual pedigree, for Mr. Washington himself, perhaps, does not as clearly understand it as another man might.†   (source)
  • And in this way—whereas an artist who had been reading memoirs of the seventeenth century, and wished to bring himself nearer to the great Louis, would consider that he was making progress in that direction when he constructed a pedigree that traced his own descent from some historic family, or when he engaged in correspondence with one of the reigning Sovereigns of Europe, and so would shut his eyes to the mistake he was making in seeking to establish a similarity by an exact and…†   (source)
  • Your father learnt it on his way hwome from Shaston, and he has been telling me the whole pedigree of the matter.†   (source)
  • Pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record, the d'Urberville lineaments, did not help Tess in her life's battle as yet, even to the extent of attracting to her a dancing-partner over the heads of the commonest peasantry.†   (source)
  • "He said at another time something like this"; and she gave another, which might possibly have been paralleled in many a work of the pedigree ranging from the Dictionnaire Philosophique to Huxley's Essays.†   (source)
  • "It was only my whim," he said; and, after a moment's hesitation: "It was on account of a discovery I made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedigrees for the new county history.†   (source)
  • I do hate the aristocratic principle of blood before everything, and do think that as reasoners the only pedigrees we ought to respect are those spiritual ones of the wise and virtuous, without regard to corporal paternity.†   (source)
  • I had no pedigree, no inherited title; so in the king's and nobles' eyes I was mere dirt; the people regarded me with wonder and awe, but there was no reverence mixed with it; through the force of inherited ideas they were not able to conceive of anything being entitled to that except pedigree and lordship.†   (source)
  • "Assuredly," said be, "my lords, the noble Cedric speaks truth; and his race may claim precedence over us as much in the length of their pedigrees as in the longitude of their cloaks."†   (source)
  • In the family existence of these Pyncheons, for instance,—forgive me Phoebe, but I cannot think of you as one of them,—in their brief New England pedigree, there has been time enough to infect them all with one kind of lunacy or another.†   (source)
  • More he would doubtless have spoken; but here there arose an outcry, sportive, contemptuous, and indignant, that altogether drowned the appeal of the fallen nobleman, insomuch that, casting one look of despair at his own half-burned pedigree, he shrunk back into the crowd, glad to shelter himself under his new-found insignificance.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Woodcourt, after expatiating to us on the fame of her great kinsman, said that no doubt wherever her son Allan went he would remember his pedigree and would on no account form an alliance below it.†   (source)
  • 'Talking of the baron's ancestor puts me in mind of the baron's great claims to respect, on the score of his pedigree.†   (source)
  • The animal was probably indebted to the blood of Araby for its excellence, through a long pedigree, that embraced the steed of Mexico, the Spanish barb, and the Moorish charger.†   (source)
  • They are terrible people—her monde; all mounted upon stilts a mile high, and with pedigrees long in proportion.†   (source)
  • Detected as the Bully of humility, who had built his windy reputation upon lies, and in his boastfulness had put the honest truth as far away from him as if he had advanced the mean claim (there is no meaner) to tack himself on to a pedigree, he cut a most ridiculous figure.†   (source)
  • I think it was his pedigree only that had the advantage of being Scotch, and not his "bringing up"; for except that he had a stronger burr in his accent, his speech differed little from that of the Loamshire people about him.†   (source)
  • Ilusha, who had heard three days before that he was to be presented with a puppy, not an ordinary puppy, but a pedigree mastiff (a very important point, of course), tried from delicacy of feeling to pretend that he was pleased.†   (source)
  • I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here.†   (source)
  • We love it and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.†   (source)
  • 'It was his, and his uncle's before him, and Lord knows who before him; and that's all I can tell you of its pedigree.'†   (source)
  • Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan?†   (source)
  • For instance, those people had inherited the idea that all men without title and a long pedigree, whether they had great natural gifts and acquirements or hadn't, were creatures of no more consideration than so many animals, bugs, insects; whereas I had inherited the idea that human daws who can consent to masquerade in the peacock-shams of inherited dignities and unearned titles, are of no good but to be laughed at.†   (source)
  • 'You are to understand'—snorted Pancks, feverishly unfolding papers, and speaking in short high-pressure blasts of sentences, 'Where's the Pedigree?†   (source)
  • And close at hand came the village: the small church, with its red-tiled roof, looking humble even among the faded half-timbered houses; the old green gravestones with nettles round them; nothing fresh and bright but the children, opening round eyes at the swift post-chaise; nothing noisy and busy but the gaping curs of mysterious pedigree.†   (source)
  • "Poor Mr. Woodcourt, my dear," she would say, and always with some emotion, for with her lofty pedigree she had a very affectionate heart, "was descended from a great Highland family, the MacCoorts of MacCoort.†   (source)
  • It must have been in reference to this outrage that Chanticleer, the next day, accompanied by the bereaved mother of the egg, took his post in front of Phoebe and Clifford, and delivered himself of a harangue that might have proved as long as his own pedigree, but for a fit of merriment on Phoebe's part.†   (source)
  • The last man, whoever he is—and he may be a cobbler or some low vulgar dog for aught we know—will have a longer pedigree than the greatest nobleman now alive; and I contend that this is not fair.†   (source)
  • As he spoke, some rough-looking men advanced to the verge of the bonfire, and threw in, as it appeared, all the rubbish of the herald's office,--the blazonry of coat armor, the crests and devices of illustrious families, pedigrees that extended back, like lines of light, into the mist of the dark ages, together with stars, garters, and embroidered collars, each of which, as paltry a bawble as it might appear to the uninstructed eye, had once possessed vast significance, and was still,…†   (source)
  • You can't help your pedigree, and I quite agree with you that I would have married Mr. Joe Sedley; for could a poor penniless girl do better?†   (source)
  • Come you, and see my child from hour to hour; set what you see against her pedigree, which is this, and this'—for I scorned to mince it—'and tell me what is the true legitimacy when you shall have quite made up your mind on that subject.'†   (source)
  • Let us behold, in poor Hepzibah, the immemorial, lady—two hundred years old, on this side of the water, and thrice as many on the other,—with her antique portraits, pedigrees, coats of arms, records and traditions, and her claim, as joint heiress, to that princely territory at the eastward, no longer a wilderness, but a populous fertility,—born, too, in Pyncheon Street, under the Pyncheon Elm, and in the Pyncheon House, where she has spent all her days,—reduced.†   (source)
  • The Grogzwig coffers ran low, though the Swillenhausen family had looked upon them as inexhaustible; and just when the baroness was on the point of making a thirteenth addition to the family pedigree, Von Koeldwethout discovered that he had no means of replenishing them.†   (source)
  • Before Mrs. O'Dowd was half an hour in Amelia's (or indeed in anybody else's) company, this amiable lady told all her birth and pedigree to her new friend.†   (source)
  • The Marchioness of Steyne was of the renowned and ancient family of the Caerlyons, Marquises of Camelot, who have preserved the old faith ever since the conversion of the venerable Druid, their first ancestor, and whose pedigree goes far beyond the date of the arrival of King Brute in these islands.†   (source)
  • Less pedigree?†   (source)
  • …stammered forth a variety of most unaccountable and entangled sentences, the upshot of which was, that Mrs Kenwigs had examined him, at great length that morning, touching the origin of his acquaintance with, and the whole life, adventures, and pedigree of, Nicholas; that Newman had parried these questions as long as he could, but being, at length, hard pressed and driven into a corner, had gone so far as to admit, that Nicholas was a tutor of great accomplishments, involved in some…†   (source)
  • The great family coach of the Osbornes transported him to Park Lane from Russell Square; where the young ladies, who were not themselves invited, and professed the greatest indifference at that slight, nevertheless looked at Sir Pitt Crawley's name in the baronetage; and learned everything which that work had to teach about the Crawley family and their pedigree, and the Binkies, their relatives, &c.†   (source)
  • 'And all that trouble,' said he to himself, thinking as usual in Hindustani, 'for a horse's pedigree!†   (source)
  • We need not follow the rest of the pedigree; but Kim made his little point clearly and without heat, chewing a piece of sugar-cane the while.†   (source)
  • There were Five Kings who prepared a sudden war three years ago, when thou wast given the stallion's pedigree by Mahbub Ali.†   (source)
  • 'Not when I brought thee'—Kim actually dared to use the turn of equals—'a white stallion's pedigree that night?'†   (source)
  • He knew he had rendered a service to Mahbub Ali, and not for one little minute did he believe the tale of the stallion's pedigree.†   (source)
  • 'Ay, I beg for him,' said Kim, anxious only to get the lama under shelter for the night, that he might seek Mahbub Ali's Englishman and deliver himself of the white stallion's pedigree.†   (source)
  • Therefore I went to Umballa, as thou knowest, but (and this thou dost not know) I lay hid in the garden-grass to see what Colonel Creighton Sahib might do upon reading the white stallion's pedigree.'†   (source)
  • But then—stand nearer and hold up hands as begging—the pedigree of the white stallion was not fully established, and that officer, who is now at Umballa, bade me make it clear.'†   (source)
  • I put my hand upon my amulet, which lies always next to my skin, and, remembering the pedigree of a white stallion that I had bitten out of a piece of Mussalmani bread, I went away to Umballa perceiving that a heavy trust was laid upon me.†   (source)
  • He had never passed the serai gate since his arrival two days ago, but had been ostentatious in sending telegrams to Bombay, where he banked some of his money; to Delhi, where a sub-partner of his own clan was selling horses to the agent of a Rajputana state; and to Umballa, where an Englishman was excitedly demanding the pedigree of a white stallion.†   (source)
  • Will forward pedigree.'†   (source)
  • But now I learn every day, and in three years the Colonel will take me out of the madrissah and let me go upon the Road with Mahbub hunting for horses' pedigrees, or maybe I shall go by myself; or maybe I shall find the lama and go with him.†   (source)
  • The blending of Greek and West Asiatic traditions can be seen in so central a figure as Zeus: dwelling on the peak of Mount Olympus and wielding the thunderbolt, Zeus has an Indo-European pedigree as a sky- and weather-god; this is indicated by the etymology of his name, which comes from a root (deiw-) meaning "shining," "bright."†   (source)
  • First, by beginning your breeding program with dogs you found "excellent in temperament and structure" but of unpedigreed stock, you have made attaining your objective—and I admit I don't fully understand it—immeasurably harder.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpedigreed means not and reverses the meaning of pedigreed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • He cut his teeth on Montana match races, relays on unpedigreed horses in Indian country, and contests at rough tracks with names like Chinook and Stampede.†   (source)
  • …roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of…†   (source)
  • Lastly, with monstrous impudence he used to say "you" to his equals and even those who knew what he was, and declare that his arm was his father and his deeds his pedigree, and that being a soldier he was as good as the king himself.†   (source)
  • Nothing of the kind; they only invent them for the most part to furnish a subject for their verses, and that they may pass for lovers, or for men valiant enough to be so; and so it suffices me to think and believe that the good Aldonza Lorenzo is fair and virtuous; and as to her pedigree it is very little matter, for no one will examine into it for the purpose of conferring any order upon her, and I, for my part, reckon her the most exalted princess in the world.†   (source)
  • …to be and must be made of brass not to feel the importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and their own affairs and no others attended to, come what may; and if the poor judge does not hear them and settle the matter—either because he cannot or because that is not the time set apart for hearing them-forthwith they abuse him, and run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and even pick holes in his pedigree.†   (source)
  • True it is I am a gentleman of known house, of estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos mulct; and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced little by little until they end…†   (source)
  • She is eighteen, and he twenty-two, and they are fairly matched, though some knowing ones, who have all the pedigrees in the world by heart, will have it that the family of the fair Quiteria is better than Camacho's; but no one minds that now-a-days, for wealth can solder a great many flaws.†   (source)
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