man of breeding
Example Sentences
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In spite of his weather-stained felt hat, and the coloured handkerchief slung round his muscular brown neck, I could see at a glance he was a man of breeding and education.
From Danger! and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He is a man of breeding and education, even if he isn't noble.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
Moreover, he was, besides an artist, a gentleman, with the reserve yet charm of manner that characterizes the man of breeding.
From The Loves of Great Composers by Gustav Kobbé
At his first interview with the Frenchman, our Judge had discovered him to be a man of breeding, and one who had seen much more prosperous days in his own country.
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
He spoke lightly, but Wilhelmine recognised the man of breeding in the covert hint to Stafforth.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
