highly-bred

Esther very soon caught the manners, the accent, the carriage and attitudes of these highly-bred girls; in short, her first nature reasserted itself.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

But since I was there, he did it himself; a grey, shaky, highly-bred little gentleman, standing on a chair with a long screw-driver, whilst his wife stood behind him, her hands half-raised to catch him if he should fall.

Twilight in Italy 2003

The offered hand — rather large, but beautifully formed — was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman.

The Woman in White 2003

There are no handsome highly-bred women to come to the house, and no persons of consequence to protest against his attentions to a governess.

Armadale 2003

Again, the fault may have occurred only when the engine had heated to its maximum and it was unlikely that Jacobson could have reached that in a single lap: finally, those highly-bred racing engines, which could cost up to eight thousand pounds, were extraordinarily fickle creatures and quite capable of developing and clearing up their own faults without the hand of man going anywhere near them.

The Way to Dusty Death MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1973

The story is told of M---- himself who one dark night saw what he supposed was one of these depredators, shot it with his rifle, and found he had killed the only highly-bred stud he possessed.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

I could not disguise from myself that their present mode of life was not suited for the highly-bred and polished youth of the nineteenth century.

Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton

Such are the highly-bred and intelligent animals which are eagerly waiting for us to-day -- Di, with her white coat, soft as wavy silk, her chestnut ears and one spot on the back alone marring its snowy purity;

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

A highly-bred and trained English, French, Austrian, or Italian gentleman

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

As she wondered a slight retraction of his chin and a drooping of his heavy eyelids warned her, by their likeness to the controlled but embarrassed movements of a highly-bred animal approached by a stranger, that he knew she was watching him, and she took her gaze away.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937