true-born
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
Like the true-born orator, Matthew had paused a moment in order to allow the full strength of his utterance to sink into the minds of his hearers.
From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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
The blood of every true-born Frenchman boiled with indignation when he realized the position to which his proud nation had been brought through the frivolity and egotism of Louis XV.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
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