He would have been dragging a city-born lady along the sidewalk by now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amaryllis] Reference

Most of the others were muscular young Irish farm boys: the work was too hard for stunted city-born men.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaplin’s Girl] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Price]

But they were all reputed champions of reform, and with the exception of Steinmetz, they were the gentlemen sons of wealthy, prominent fathers—city-born, expensively educated, urbane, public-spirited, and politically ambitious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

Winnipeg native Jonathan Toews and city-born, Thunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference

But when the city-born children come to Mooseheart they come into their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Puddler]

They were city-born, taught by the city to let other people live their own lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Job An American Novel] Reference

They originate closer to nature than city-born men and seem to spring from the very soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas] Reference

Boy is city-born and city-bred, and a day in the country is better than a thousand in street and park.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference

My city-born nieces and nephews have had no problems using the contraption; likewise various visitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

I feel that I could never hope to have that much longer in town, -- city-born and city-bred though I am.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914] Reference

It is a fact worth noting that the two greatest landscape-painters of all time were city-born and city-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference

Nature the city-born poet can never be, as we see in the case of Milton, who loved Nature without knowing her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Familiar Faces] Reference

The city-born Abhishek Jhunjhunwala is one of the many to be bowled over by his inspirational captain, Shane Warne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference

Beretania St., Honolulu, because I wanted my city-born kids to see that you don't have to grow up in a mansion to be president.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

Roosevelt was the first President since William Henry Harrison to bring to his office the vigor and freshness of the frontier, as he was, anomalously, the first city-born or wealthy-born incumbent.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)] Reference

Young as he was, and city-born, the lure of the wild had nevertheless already caught him, and the information that he thirsted for so insatiably was all about the furred or finned or feathered kindreds of the wild.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Wild] Reference

There is a gift -- a trick of riding camels, very seldom learned by the city-born; and he, or she, who knows the way of it enjoys the ungrudged esteem of desert men all the way from China to Damascus, from Peshawar to Morocco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guns of the Gods]

They murmured that English was a hidebound New-Englander who was incapable of appreciating the expansive ideals of Western life, and that Gowdy, city-born and city-bred, was wholly out of sympathy with the sturdy aims and wholesome ambitions of the farm and prairie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Skylights] Reference

And we are amazed to see this: "Do not let your men drink out of stagnant pools -- Athenians, city-born, know no better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference

"No," said Wyllard; "at least, they show no sign of it, and some of them and the city-born Canadians are, I think, the salt of this earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawtrey's Deputy] Reference

"No," replied Wyllard, "at least, they show no sign of it, and some of them and the city-born Canadians are, I think, the salt of this earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Wheat-Lands] Reference

Another dominant group in the 1950s comprised young kibbutz-born and city-born artists who propounded artists’ obligation to express social and political criticism in their work and proposed the realist style (as practiced in Mexico and Italy, for example) as the most appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artists: Yishuv and Israel: 1920-1970.] Reference

So much in mode, so very city-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference

As for Sanders, he is city-born and - bred.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Form, city-born and city-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works] Reference