city-born

• “But they were too careful, too quiet for a city-born random.”

  Simon & Schuster: Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet

• “Adolphus Cherrill, tilling his portion of prairie land with scant enthusiasm he was a city-born man, retained Carthage as his goal, offering a chance to move up in the world.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chaplin’s Girl

• “OBAMA: If three civil rights workers in Mississippi -- black, white, Christian and Jew, city-born and country-bred -- could lay down their lives in freedom's cause, I know we can come together to face down the challenges of our own time.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2009

• “My father--also city-born and city-bred, albeit in Queens, while my mother grew up in Manhattan and worked there for many years as well--is curiously cowed by the city, and that reversed their usual dynamic.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “David was the first child raised in the Smoke, and he understood the wild instinctively, in a way that no city-born person could.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bogus to Bubbly

• “He would have been dragging a city-born lady along the sidewalk by now.”

  Simon & Schuster: Amaryllis

• “Most of the others were muscular young Irish farm boys: the work was too hard for stunted city-born men.”

  A Place Called Freedom

• “None of them dared to hope that this newly minted billionaire, city-born and city-bred, would continue to live in what urban politicians called a rural wasteland.”

  The Cat Who Moved A Mountain

• “No city-born and -bred female, stubborn though she was, would beat him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender A Dream

• “Thirteen Ordinarily Stef would have been fascinated by the activities in the fields - he was city-born and bred, and the farmers at their harvest-work were as alien to him as the Tayledras, and as interesting.”

  Magic's Price

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