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My endeavours to rouse the English-bred chieftain, in whose house we were, to the feudal and patriarchal feelings, proving ineffectual, Dr Johnson this morning tried to bring him to our way of thinking.
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It will be seen by this list that the superiority of the English-bred horse over the French is far from being established.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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English-bred chieftain, at whose house Dr. Johnson and his friend "had small company, and could not boast of their cheer."
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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The Englishmen had learned to call their horses after their different shades of colour, in the usual Argentine way; the one Peter spoke of was a dun-coloured brute, three-parts English-bred.
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It was not because of his office, for no one was less susceptible than Vera -- a Protestant brought up, with but vague ideas of her own faith, in a Catholic land -- to any of those recognized associations with which a purely English-bred girl might have felt the character of the clergyman of the parish where she lived to be invested.
Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron
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His brother, Sir Alexander, the English-bred chieftain, but ill-supplied his loss.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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While three of his English-bred companions are exchanging reminiscences of London life, Ferguson listens with an eager interest, 'putting in a remark every now and then which had the savour, so readily detected, of acquaintance with the thing in question by means of books rather than personal experience.'
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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The breeders said the Irish cattle were bred in Ireland for nothing and transported for little, that they undersold the English-bred cattle, and consequently “the breed of Cattle in the Kingdom was totally given over,” and rents fell.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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"You can have twenty minutes, my English-bred gentleman," snarled
Half a Rogue Harold MacGrath 1901
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There is always a something -- something indescribable -- about the Frenchwoman which is marked and distinctive, and which the English-bred woman can never actually imitate.
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895
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