Well Bred

On Witte's tongue the phrase "incredibly well-bred man," which he used to describe the youthful Nicholas, became cutting invective. ❋ Jennifer Siegel (2011)

Klein had 13 horses, three of them well-bred brood mares he bought from local thoroughbred man Curly Taylor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were well-bred, well-educated real estate moguls and philanthropists. ❋ Cynthia Diane Thornton (2011)

“Spoken like the well-bred gentleman that you are,” Trent remarked. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2011)

At its most fundamental level, he said, civility involves a well-bred, cultivated pattern of polite response to disagreements. ❋ Richard T. Hughes (2011)

Like how sometimes your friend has a new sweater in a particularly awful shade of puce that makes him/her look quite bilious, and when your friend asks, "How do I look in my pleasing new sweater?" you respond, if you are a well-bred person, "What a striking color that is!" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I finished my soup and sandwich, turned up the volume on my iPod, then flipped through another book, looking for sites both Patrick and I would enjoy; after all, I was supposed to be introducing him to things that “a well-bred person should know.” ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2011)

When Petrizzo took the plunge, he acquired well-bred Labs and sought education in animal training and behavior. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The well-bred Khawlah has won over a mile and finished third in the Group Three Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket and could throw down a challenge under Frankie Dettori. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She showed neither fright nor anger, and Malemute Kid chuckled at her well-bred equanimity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A: He is a gentleman, isn't he? B: [Oh yes], he is a very [well-bred] man C: I've bought a well-bred [racehorse]. ❋ Jennyalmare (2011)