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It wasn't that she hadn't tried-but to her, citybred as she was, the wilderness was a place beset by unknown perils at every turn.
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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It was an old trick in the wild, but it just might work against citybred folk.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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It was an old trick in the wild, but it just might work against citybred folk.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Again sober, without the resources of the citybred parasite, and without money, his instinct, his longing, drew him irresistibly into the open; his heredity forced him toward the mountains, into familiar paths, valleys, heights.
Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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How this citybred and city-dressed girl came to be in Rockland Mr. Bernard did not know, but he knew at any rate that she was his next neighbor and entitled to his courtesies.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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How this citybred and city-dressed girl came to be in
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Soft citybred woman like Laura McAllan weren't meant for living in the Delta.
Lesley's Book Nook 2010
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