How To Use Well-bred In A Sentence
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“He is a good deal embarrassed pecuniarily, I should say,” continued the curate, who was rather a good man than a very well-bred one.
Uncle Silas
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The less testing ground should suit this well-bred filly and she looks to be well weighted.
The Sun
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Daughters were expected to join their well-bred friends on the marriage market.
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I finished my soup and sandwich, turned up the volume on my iPod, then flipped through another book, looking for sites both Patrick and I would enjoy; after all, I was supposed to be introducing him to things that “a well-bred person should know.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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If you want to keep warm while travelling (to frowst, as the open air school calls it) do not get in with well-bred Englishwomen.
Dangerous Ages
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There followed one of those discomfortable hours well known to well-bred people, when four of them are anxious upon a subject which they must not broach to the fifth, and the fifth becomes aware of this anxiety.
Over the River
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On Witte's tongue the phrase "incredibly well-bred man," which he used to describe the youthful Nicholas, became cutting invective.
A Statesman For the Czar
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I was a "trump" -- I was a "girl of the right sort" -- I was a "well-bred one" -- I had no end of "devil" in me -- I was fit to be
Kate Coventry An Autobiography
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He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.
Chapter 27
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What does a well-bred balletomane do in a strange town over Christmas?
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This well-bred colt will be suited by the longer distance.
The Sun
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They unwittingly borrow arguments of mainly dead, well-bred, futilitarian Orientialist scholars, like Goldziher, Juynboll, Schacht, and their incarnations (‘higher critics’ as Arberry calls them in disparagement).
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This era saw the introduction of the Aran influence in American knitting, as well as the revival of traditional motifs, such as argyles and herringbones—all patterning that had a rich, well-bred look in keeping with the burgeoning wealth of postwar industrialization.
A Passion for Knitting
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This represents a tougher test, but this well-bred filly is lightly raced and she can prove up to the task.
Times, Sunday Times
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Klein had 13 horses, three of them well-bred brood mares he bought from local thoroughbred man Curly Taylor.
Heroes or Villains?
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This old nag is the supposedly wonderfully well-bred mare you're trying to sell me?
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Upon these considerations, he met with a most engaging reception from the entertainer, who was a well-bred man, of some learning, generosity, and taste; but his foible was the desire of being thought the inimitable pattern of all three.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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a clean-cut and well-bred young man
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It is difficult to explain why well-bred people avoid certain words and expressions that are admitted by etymology and grammar.
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This well-bred filly was most impressive at Lingfield last month.
The Sun
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In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the well-bred laws of custom, I here suppress.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable.
Emma
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This well-bred filly improved for the step up to this distance when successful at this track last week.
The Sun
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The feminine side of me wants humanistic evaluations of interesting female people in the news, written by well-bred, well educated women.
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I was, after all, a stranger, and well-bred ex-governesses did not discuss their ailments in public.
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Like how sometimes your friend has a new sweater in a particularly awful shade of puce that makes him/her look quite bilious, and when your friend asks, "How do I look in my pleasing new sweater?" you respond, if you are a well-bred person, "What a striking color that is!
Archive 2009-08-01
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The form could have worked out better but this well-bred colt has huge potential.
The Sun
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In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the well-bred laws of custom, I here suppress.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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A television announcer with a well-bred voice was reading the news.
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Among all their sons and so many well-bred youth who have become soldiers through patriotism, or who have left their families to prevent these from becoming suspect, one half repose on the battlefield or have left the hospital only for the cemetery; "the muscadin [3341] died from the first campaign.
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
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That is always a good race and this well-bred colt could progress into a top-class performer.
The Sun
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When a certain Mr. Po assisted with military affairs on the northern frontier, he obtained a well-bred horse to give to me.
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
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Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept
The Parisians — Complete
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Well-bred persons, abhorring the pedantry of the blues, are usually _anti - blues_, or _ultra-antis_.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
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There were instances of well-bred middle-class gels entering into marriage with only the haziest idea of how babies were conceived and born.
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This well-bred colt hasn't been seen this season but his form from last year is very good.
The Sun
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We drafted out all the worst and weediest of the cattle, besides all the old cows, and when we counted the mob out we had nearly eleven hundred first-rate store cattle; lots of fine young bullocks and heifers, more than half fat — altogether a prime well-bred mob that no squatter or dealer could fault in any way if the price was right.
Robbery Under Arms
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When Petrizzo took the plunge, he acquired well-bred Labs and sought education in animal training and behavior.
High earners quit rat race to pursue a passion for animals
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By the time she made her debut in Washington society, 18 - year-old Amy was a beautiful, mature, well-bred and graceful young lady, with green eyes and amber-colored hair.
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Occasionally, a doe will fail to conceive on schedule, but well-bred rabbits are dependable.
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A well-bred three-year-old, Remaal made a winning start to her career in a maiden race over this course and distance last month.
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Partly this is down to that old bedevilling British thing, class: Mr. Cameron is from very well-bred stock, and so are almost all of his lieutenants.
The Election of Gordon W. Bush
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We drafted out all the worst and weediest of the cattle, besides all the old cows, and when we counted the mob out we had nearly eleven hundred first-rate store cattle; lots of fine young bullocks and heifers, more than half fat -- altogether a prime well-bred mob that no squatter or dealer could fault in any way if the price was right.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
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That is always a good race and this well-bred colt could progress into a top-class performer.
The Sun
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My mother used to render a sublime schmaltz, drawing forth globules of fat and the skin thereunto attached from well-bred chickens.
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The well-bred Khawlah has won over a mile and finished third in the Group Three Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket and could throw down a challenge under Frankie Dettori.
Bank on improving Mahbooba to lift UAE Oaks at Dubai carnival
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In The Paradine Case, when the well-bred Mrs. Paradine enters prison, a stern-looking matron unpins the unfortunate lady's hair and runs her fingers through it (looking for contraband, apparently).
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His attitude was that of a well-bred man reluctant to discuss some family difference with a prying outsider.
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“Spoken like the well-bred gentleman that you are,” Trent remarked.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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With the quick instinct which belongs to well-bred puppydom, and is not unknown even in children, the dogs had caught the graver note which changed her voice.
The Justice of the King
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On the night I was in, there were two parties of those loud, well-bred gels who couldn't get into Oxbridge and had to study at Edinburgh instead.
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Besides, when I grow up I'll be mixing with well-bred young men.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.
Chapter 27
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You may see, it is true, an earth-worm in a robin's beak, and may hear a thrush breaking a snail's shell; but these little things are, as it were, passed by with a kind of twinkle for apology, as by a well-bred man who does openly some little solecism which is too slight for direct mention, and which a meaner man might hide or avoid.
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