city-bred

Yes, there was food here, but it wasn't the sort of thing the ordinary city-bred boy would have recognized as such.

Seven city-bred kids, scared of the country dark, were simultaneously hanging off my arms.

City-bred or not, he was in excellent physical condition from his hours of martial arts training.

And they never like city-bred hotshots walking it, which is why he needs to keep moving.

They tend to be younger and city-bred; many own motorcycles.

There were two thousand people in the building, soft-bodied and city-bred.

The horse is tired because she's city-bred and her legs are far too thin for running all night in the hills.

It was, he supposed, the city-bred's almost instinctive fear of the woods.

They were city-bred, and unaccustomed to face the unusual or the alarming.

It seemed a strange thing that an agricultural college should have an attraction for city-bred youths, but such is the fact.

Looking at these people he could believe it, but he knew that his city-bred prejudices told only half the story.

The jungle is no place for city-bred people.

It smelled like wood and spice inside, pleasant but strange to his city-bred nose.

"Yes, and I can breathe air, you city-bred fool," or perhaps something more insulting.

And partly because it's really dangerous for a city-bred sixteen-year-old to cross hundreds of miles alone.

Does it not grow weary of soft, city-bred flesh?

He had a dog and, being city-bred, he thought Baldersdale was wonderful.

Trust an ignorant city-bred darky not to know the difference between a farm and a plantation.

As I've told you: these are city-bred animals.

Of a truth, the very thought of things Western made him swear mild, city-bred oaths.

In many cases the new arrivals were city-bred and sought employment only available in large population centers.

It seemed to refer patronizingly to anything simple or backward, from the viewpoint of a city-bred tourist.

"I'm no city-bred Nemedian to cringe before your hired dogs.

In fact, Ms. Henry was city-bred and came to her love of animals and nature as an adult.

Two months here amid the awful beauty and thunderstorms had mixed effect on city-bred Kerouac.