town-bred

Trade dogs wear out faster than their town-bred cousins.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Trade dogs wear out faster than their town-bred cousins.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

I obeyed his directions with respect to my clothes, the rather that, in despite of the spirits which I had drunk, I felt my teeth begin to chatter, and received various hints from an aguish feeling, that a town-bred youth, like myself, could not at once rush into all the hardihood of country sports with impunity.

Redgauntlet 2008

'Soldiers as a class (I take the town-bred, slum-bed majority, mind) are men who have discarded the civil standard of moral authority altogether.

Requiem for Democracy 2007

One of my companions had disappeared hours before, the remaining one was a town-bred youth.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

He was a slightly built and apparently town-bred man of twenty-eight or thirty; his manner of address was at once careless and conciliatory.

Two on a Tower 2006

So we get one glimpse of how peaceful town-bred people might die a century and a half ago.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

So take a warning for the nonce, my friend; town-bred

Poems and Fragments 2006

So take a warning for the nonce, my friend; town-bred

Poems and Fragments 2006

Mrs. Bute could not disguise from herself the fact that none of her party could so contribute to the pleasures of the town-bred lady.

Vanity Fair 2006