true-born
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But trouble fairly brims over when a man is born, as was Aubrey Menen, of an Irishwoman and a Hindu, is registered as a native Briton and educated like a true-born Englishman.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Berrio's English rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, Trinidad was to be the beginning of a South American empire, where Indians and true-born Englishmen would unite to destroy the power of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have trained me 6 well, and I feel by him as solemnly as a true-born Brodie.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
A true Englishman is one that deserves a character, and I have nowhere lessened him, that I know of; but as for a true-born Englishman, I confess I do not understand him.
From The True-Born Englishman A Satire by Defoe, Daniel
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