Citations:breeding


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yes, and my wife is a very virtuous woman, the daughter of a virtuous woman; she was my Lady Feigning's daughter, therefore she came of a very honourable family, and is arrived to such a pitch of breeding, that she knows how to carry it to all, even to prince and peasant.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * This was the first time that I entertained a thought of breeding up some tame creatures, that I might have food when my powder and shot was all spent.
 * And now I found that if I expected to supply myself with goats’ flesh, when I had no powder or shot left, breeding some up tame was my only way, when, perhaps, I might have them about my house like a flock of sheep.