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This is effected by carefully-kept pedigrees, which are preserved and supervised by the State; and without a certified pedigree no Woman is allowed to marry. Now it might have been supposed the a Circle proud of his ancestry and regardful for a posterity which might possibly issue hereafter in a Chief Circle would be more careful than any other to choose a wife who had no blot on her escutcheon.
'Small wonder. 'Ho! said Kim, with the correct guttural note of wonder. He had learned what he wanted, and when the scullion turned he was gone. 'And all that trouble, said he to himself, thinking as usual in Hindustani, 'for a horse's pedigree! Mahbub Ali should have come to me to learn a little lying. Every time before that I have borne a message it concerned a woman. Now it is men. Better.
A queer old desk had come into the house from Italy, and as it was a valuable piece of furniture, the owner was anxious to learn its pedigree.
Be good to them when the baby flesh is on them, and they'll grow and thrive, and your siller'll a' come back in the milking." The countryside clavered and havered when he bought his pedigree bulls and his pedigree mares.
Appearance: Person tall and graceful; complexion fair; eyes blue; hair long and golden; face handsome. Pedigree: A lineal descendant of Lawrence Washington, brother of the first President of the Republic. Parents: William Washington and Sophia, his wife. Father, a graduate of the University of Virginia; professor of Indo-European literature for ten years in Harvard University.
We find plenty of Russians who are proud of their wealth, of their culture, or of their official position, but we rarely find a Russian who is proud of his birth or imagines that the fact of his having a long pedigree gives him any right to political privileges or social consideration.
She must be of good pedigree, strong, and healthy; such an one ought to be obtained for P15 upwards. Mate her to the best dog whose blood "nicks" suitably with hers, but do not waste time and money breeding from fourth-rate stud dogs, for if you do it is certain you will only meet with disappointment.
It is evident that, in what is called the evolution of animal forms, the foot came in suddenly when the backboned creatures began to live on the dry land that is, with the frogs. How it came in is a question which still puzzles the phylogenists, who cannot find a sure pedigree for the frog.
A girl with her spirit would think you the finer match of the two," said Sir Hugo, who often tried Deronda's patience by finding a joke in impossible advice. "I suppose pedigree and land belong to a fine match," said Deronda, coldly. "The best horse will win in spite of pedigree, my boy.
"How is it possible," said she, "that your ancestors, eminent, wealthy, and influential, never thought of being raised from the common herd and securing a title for their descendants? Today you would possess a presentable pedigree. "My ancestors were wise," responded M. Daburon. "They preferred being foremost among their fellow-citizens to becoming last among the nobles."
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