Secretariat's retirement role

Usage examples of sire.

Not at all unhandsome, yet, now that she knew, she could see his indebtedness, the sure burden upon him, and the truth that, for him, for every child he might sire, there would be no absolving the stigma.

Luckily, however, he was not as effeminate as his younger brother, the Cyprian, who never managed to sire any children: Auletes and Cleopatra Tryphaena confidently expected to give Egypt heirs.

The farmer understands that if he wishes to materially improve his cows, the first offspring must be begotten by a better, purer breed, and all that follow will be essentially benefited, even if not so well sired.

She was sired by Balloon, and finished third in a race at Brocket Hall.

Sire Vaide Sorrilier, third Dominus of the Citadel of Cados, had been watching its slow tumble for the past two hours.

Notre-Dame de Liesse rendit au sire de Couci ses deux enfants qui etaient perdus.

While were-cats could sire children, Fayne had never found a woman with whom he wanted to raise a family.

SHADE OF EARTH What boots it, Sire, To down this dynasty, set that one up, Goad panting peoples to the throes thereof, Make wither here my fruit, maintain it there, And hold me travailling through fineless years In vain and objectless monotony, When all such tedious conjuring could be shunned By uncreation?

Non, non, sire Philippe, je ne suis pas assez fou pour jeter des perles aux pourceaux.

Lucinda Fyne had told her daughters very little about their fathers, but they each bore the name of the man who had sired them.

He looked a great deal like the late Sir Gardian, and, like his sire, he had quickly established a reputation as a lord of great energy.

His name was Gaut, and he dutifully sired the Gautar, the Many Peoples.

The old soldiers of Crecy, of Nogent, and of Poictiers were glad to think that they might hear the war-trumpet once more, and gladder still were the hot youth who had chafed for years under the martial tales of their sires.

Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, lesbic sisters, loves that dare not speak their name, nephews with grandmothers, jailbirds with keyholes, queens with prize bulls.

The land that he left his successor, though still called Mide, was five times as large as the Mide that his sire had left to him, and as he had proven a good ruler, a generous and just overlord to the folk he had subdued, that land was satisfied with his rule and at peace.