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Sometimes they perish utterly in the transition: they are very pretty, I conceive, in the deep and briny well of the Captain's fancy; but they won't bear being transplanted into the shallow inland lakes of my land-bred apprehension.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

A few months at the most -- oh, to be sure, to a seaman that's no more than nature; but to hear it from any one land-bred, and a lady too!

Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

There'll be lots of talk and tinkering, tariffs and tommy-rot, and, underneath, the land-bred men dying, dying all the time.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

There'll be lots of talk and tinkering, tariffs and tommy-rot, and, underneath, the land-bred men dying, dying all the time.

The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

The expansion of the Russians across the lowlands of Siberia was quite in harmony with the genius of that land-bred people; but when they reached

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

As for young men, they are mostly fools, and they talk of love with a vast deal of swagger and bravery, laughing it to scorn, as a landsman talks of seasickness, telling you it is nothing but an impression and a mere lack of courage, till one day the land-bred boaster puts to sea in a Channel steamer, and experiences

Paul Patoff 1881

I) field at 24-1 last September at Del Mar. A 5-year-old Mar.land-bred son of

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I) field at 24-1 last September at Del Mar. A 5-year-old Mar.land-bred son of

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