true-born
Britishadjective
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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
But on that okashun, they acshally cum by shoals; and when they was all assembled they mustard no less than sixty-wun true-born Royalties.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various
Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen— To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard
“That’s one of the peculiarities of the true-born Briton, Tony,” said Mr Hallett, after a pause.
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
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