After all, Arabella was innocent and country-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obedient Bride]

Whatever the reason, it certainly pays to be country-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

Four-fifths of the men and women who do great things are country-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

"She is a good country-bred girl," Lord Ainsbury explained to his grandson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

The country-bred Boer resembles not remotely our own Puritans and Covenanters.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

Country-born and country-bred, there was nothing about her of plodding peasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

The heart of this country-bred girl had fallen at the first word from his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of all countries] Reference

His sturdy frame marked him as country-bred, and Lan felt an instant kinship with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brightly Burning]

"Yes," she said, with the open rudeness of the country-bred; "yes, you ain't very big.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

Were the country-bred horse to be put at once to full city work, he would die in a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

I was a country-bred boy — that is if you call Putney country, and Wimbledon Common and that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wolves and the Lamb] Reference

My share of the loot was a nice-looking, white, country-bred pony, which I found tied to a tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

I am only sorry to think, that, young and country-bred as thou art, it can but little avail thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

It looked bright, and warm, and lively in many of these places; but the country-bred boy was cautious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

He still had utterly innocent blue eyes, and the face of a country-bred dolt straight out of the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathblood]

This was an appalling state of affairs to country-bred Mary Rose, who had been brought up in a friendly atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference

As I had had no experience and was not ‘country-bred’ (as they say in Orel) I heard plenty of such descriptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference

The great city failed to please the country-bred youth, and, indeed, until the end of his life, Millet disliked Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference

I can only imagine what a heady sense of pure excitement all this must have meant to the country-bred lad from Dorset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy bulletin] Reference

But Hiram had that fear of debt in his breast which is almost always a characteristic of the frugal, country-bred person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Baker was a country-bred, I know, but he always kept his contracts, while you got your polish in Glesca, and your name is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

The country-bred girls and boys in our courses have equal opportunity with their city cousins, and both are thriving alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference

She probably wasn't the only country-bred person to think of this ploy, and ruffians preferred places where they could hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lark And The Wren]

The boy had none of the half-stupid stolidity of the country-bred, and yet lacked something of the garrulity of the cute street lad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

They made incessant demands on the maids that those poor country-bred girls didn't understand, and had them in tears at least once a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phoenix And Ashes]

I am country-bred; that's why I speak of such a trifle. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Women] Reference

The capital of the Great Republic was a new world to country-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference

I had the idea, which a country-bred lad brings up with him, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Stone] Reference

There was a stile to climb, but this was no obstacle to the country-bred girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children of Wilton Chase] Reference

It is a kind of life that has a potent charm for all men, whether city or country-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

As his country-bred feet found and followed a path toward deeper woods, he heard the Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference

It is a distinction indeed, for a country-bred girl like me to be so spoken of by people of brains and culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference

And the very name of play-actress had filled us both with a kind of vague horror, like the country-bred folk that we were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Stone] Reference