best-bred

• “He issued a proclamation also to this effect: a golden wreath of victory should be given to whichever city could produce the best-bred bull to head the procession in honour of the god.”

  Hellenica

• “During dinner-time, Mr. Pogson was profoundly polite and attentive to the lady at his side, and kindly communicated to her, as is the way with the best-bred English on their first arrival”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “I know who is reckoned one of the politest and best-bred gentlemen in England by every body, and learned as well as polite, and yet had his education in one of those celebrated seats of learning.”

  Pamela

• “Manheim from the rest of your countrymen and fellow-travelers: it is a sign that you had better manners and address than they; for take it for granted, the best-bred people will always be the best received wherever they go.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “Ormond was almost the weakest but at the same time the best-bred, and most popular man in this kingdom.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “The most graceful and best-bred men, and the handsomest and genteelest women, give the most philters; and, as I verily believe, without the least assistance of the devil.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “The worst-bred man in Europe, if a lady let fall her fan, would certainly take it up and give it her; the best-bred man in Europe could do no more.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “This will be practiced by a good-natured American savage, as essentially as by the best-bred European.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “His head was smooth; his eyes were prominent but not gozzled; his feet were feathered; he was the equal of the best-bred cocker in Wimpole Street.”

  Flush: a biography

• “The lady is one of the most intelligent and best-bred persons I have known in any country.”

  Travels through France and Italy

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