townbred

Let us get away, as far as it is possible in the welter of financiers and townbred ways of thought, from the ruling idea of money. that money feeds us.

The Crying Need 2008

The Haig children grew up as countrywise rather than townbred, having many a romp over the rolling country leading to the Highlands.

Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers 1917

The chair of the resident indeed stood vacant before the hearth but on either flank of it the figure of Bannon in explorer's kit of tweed shorts and salted cowhide brogues contrasted sharply with the primrose elegance and townbred manners of Malachi

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

British North America was passing out of the pioneer, self-sufficient stage, and now had a surplus to export as well as townbred needs to be supplied by imports.

The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909

Ralph loved Nature instinctively, and saw it as a townbred lad rarely does.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

Never before has the effort been made to transplant, peacefully, in a short space of time, to another soil, several million people from various countries; never has it been attempted to transform millions of physically degenerate proletarians, without trade or profession, into agriculturists and cattle breeders, to bring townbred hucksters and trades people, agents, and men of sedentary occupation again into contact with the plough and the mother earth.

Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886

For what was it that still drew my brother to that maid who had ever pursued him and the object of his love with cruel hate -- so strongly, indeed, that he would have been ready to cherish and comfort her -- but joy at finding himself -- a mere townbred

Margery — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

For what was it that still drew my brother to that maid who had ever pursued him and the object of his love with cruel hate -- so strongly, indeed, that he would have been ready to cherish and comfort her -- but joy at finding himself -- a mere townbred

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

For what was it that still drew my brother to that maid who had ever pursued him and the object of his love with cruel hate -- so strongly, indeed, that he would have been ready to cherish and comfort her -- but joy at finding himself -- a mere townbred

Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

Kirillovna bought her freedom for a considerable sum and married for love a fair-haired young waiter who leads her a dreadful life; Avdotya lives as before among the maids in Lizaveta Prohorovna's house, but has sunk to a rather lower position; she is very poorly, almost dirtily dressed, and there is no trace left in her of the townbred airs and graces of a fashionable maid or of the habits of a prosperous innkeeper's wife ....

Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850