"Pedigreed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... common Romans do not willingly earn their living with their hands; that they like better being idle and, so far as they can, ornamental. In this they would not differ from the uncommon Romans, the moneyed, the leisured, the pedigreed classes, who reproach them for their indolence; but I do not know whether they are so indolent as all that or not. I heard it said that they no longer want work, and that when they get it they do not do it well—a ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
... accomplished fact, in some quarters even an old story. Two illustrations will suffice, one among domestic animals, the other among wild animals in captivity. The first is among pure-bred dairy cattle, the pedigreed Jerseys and Holsteins. No sooner did the discovery of the bacillus provide us with a means of identification, than the well-known "perlsucht" of the Germans, or "grapes" of the English veterinarians—both names being derived from the curious rounded masses or nodules ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson |
