highbred

He brushed around Von Rosen out in the kitchen, and mewed a little, delicate, highbred mew.

Now, if you buy a highbred animal, and pay a fancy price, it goes under at the least little thing.

Miss Emily in her high bed, her Bible and spectacles on the stand beside her, her starched pillows, her soft and highbred voice?

"Uncommonly highbred looking fellow, Shotover," he said to himself.

If he lets himself down to the comprehension of the illiterate, the highbred city folks may say: "He is beneath his calling."