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  • But every one who can, is on a mule or a long-tailed countrybred, pushing along at a foot's pace, crying out now and then, and avoiding this pair of black toes, that coffee-coloured bare heel.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • Frank drove his spurs in; and the gaunt, raw-boned countrybred under him sprang forward.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • And some ere now to flatter an orator have depreciated a philosopher, and others won favour with wanton women by traducing those wives who are faithful to their husbands as constitutionally cold and countrybred.

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • He knew it was a formidable thing to ask of a countrybred maid.

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • He was surely countrybred, for there was a largeness in his expression as well as his bearing that spoke distinctly of broad vistas and exercise.

    Told in a French Garden August, 1914 Mildred Aldrich 1890

  • I was mounted on a great Cape horse, my friend on a wiry countrybred, and the men on their own proper legs, curious looking limbs without any flesh on them, only shiny black leather stretched over bones.

    Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

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