This is not the prayer of the city-bred formalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

'Keep your bounty for your city-bred dogs, princess!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

So much for the city-bred boy's observation of birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

These "soft, city-bred" guards were quite impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oathbound]

A farmer was showing a horse to a city-bred gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

The Astronomer said, "I am afraid my son is city-bred.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian Way]

If I were a city-bred person, even though most ordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Give me an educated, thoughtful, city-bred elitist any day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schneider: White working-class voters stick with Clinton] Reference

As a city-bred kid, I was more or less sheltered from Nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liane Weintraub: Malibu: A Little Worse for Wear, But Still the Awe-Inspiring Place I Call Home] Reference

Such a life would be rather wearisome to most city-bred ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

The rural stint did not always go down well with city-bred students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Urban Guerillas] Reference

There were many things to interest city-bred folk on a place like Four.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

He remembered arriving in Moose County as a city-bred greenhorn from Down Below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]

"But I'll agree, as no city-bred Iranistani dog could worst Conan in such a duel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

If everyone were city-bred, like Sunbeam, that wouldn't be a problem, but most aren't.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference

MK cadres are city-bred students - an army composed mainly of students cannot be strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUART COMMISSION REPORT] Reference

The beauties of nature filled the soul of this city-bred youth with wonder and admiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference

A city-bred man with knowledge of Aghrapur the Mighty's mightier intrigues might be heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Valiant]

It was a brand-new experience to the little city-bred child, and he enjoyed it to the utmost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Types of Children's Literature] Reference

But Jimmy, though city-bred, was not to be trapped, and declined; very wisely, as we thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

It is always difficult for a city-bred man to adjust himself to the needs and manners of a country parish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

In the barbarian society the part played by this civilized and city-bred element was even more considerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Besides, after six months of it, three city-bred men were about ready to climb screaming out of their skulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

"You're just as much city-bred as me," he countered, resentfully, a harder edge to his voice than he had intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

Yes, there was food here, but it wasn't the sort of thing the ordinary city-bred boy would have recognized as such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

He was a Cimmerian and understood the voices of the wilderness as a city-bred man understands the voices of his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

Inattention to this matter may give offence, as the hostess may fancy herself slighted merely because she is not city-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

Women's great desire, as a rule, is to appear entirely at ease, city-bred, high-bred, used to all things, surprised by none.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mae Madden] Reference

He said nothing about it; after all, he was a city-bred landlubber, while Roger and Bushy had known this lake all their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Went Underground]

Unlike the city-bred professional thief, he had been taught to work, and such work as he could perform was no punishment to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference

There we were with the mighty forces of the insensate world around, so pitiless, so silently cruel, it seemed to my city-bred soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference

I had already recognised that she had been in domestic service, and was neither peasant nor city-bred; but now for the first time I got.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference

In the South, he thought, his hulking size and strength should somehow easily bring him fame and fortune among the city-bred weaklings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

Shut up any such man for seven years in a place where the only men of his own age are city-bred thieves, and what can be expected of him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference