All 6 Uses of
pedigree
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- "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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Your father learnt it on his way hwome from Shaston, and he has been telling me the whole pedigree of the matter.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- I think that parson who unearthed your pedigree would have done better if he had held his tongue.†
Chpt 5
- "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.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
the line of ancestors of an animal; or any background or history of a person or idea, showing origins and development