What is "homebred"

Usage examples of "homebred".

English landscape evince a calm and settled security, a hereditary transmission of homebred virtues and local attachments, that speak deeply and touchingly for the moral character of the nation.

I am apt to think the world was more homebred, social, and joyous than at present.

Society has acquired a more enlightened and elegant tone, but it has lost many of its strong local peculiarities, its homebred feelings, its honest fireside delights.

I have especially noticed among those truly homebred and genuine sons of the soil who have never migrated beyond the sound of Bow bells.

In short, honest Jean Descloux was a fair sample of that homebred, upright common-sense which seems to form the instinct of the mass, and which it is greatly the fashion to deride in those circles in which mystification passes for profound thinking, bold assumption for evidence, a simper for wit, particular personal advantages for liberty, and in which it is deemed a mortal offence against good manners to hint that Adam and Eve were the common parents of mankind.

If she moved, she would wake him, and in pulling away would look like the stereotypical homebred girl whose virginity was her only property.

Hunt races are restricted to homebred horses-bred in Australia, I mean, not necessarily in the state.

But the homebred arts and somewhat boisterous gallantry of these honest colonists were completely eclipsed by the good looks, the fine clothes, the punctilious courtesy, the perfect elegance, the immense information, of Mr Arthur Lloyd.