Rain, she thought in the first moment, and her country-bred mind added, we certainly need it.

He was a youth of barely eighteen years, evidently country-bred, and now, as it should seem, upon his first visit to town.

But my mother was country-bred and all visitors were treated courteously no matter what their purpose.

And yet what common interest could there be between a young country-bred aristocrat and an actress?

It is a distinction indeed, for a country-bred girl like me to be so spoken of by people of brains and culture.

I am only a simple country-bred fieldmouse, but even I can see the courage and leadership in you.

They made incessant demands on the maids that those poor country-bred girls didn't understand, and had them in tears at least once a day.

She probably wasn't the only country-bred person to think of this ploy, and ruffians preferred places where they could hide.

I was articled to a solicitor some years before the war, though I was country-bred.

He still had utterly innocent blue eyes, and the face of a country-bred dolt straight out of the fields.

What a country-bred innocent I was!

They are the more baffling because they are not problems at all to his country-bred neighbors.

He attributed this skill to his country-bred childhood in which stone throwing at crows was a daily exercise.

The mares are often local country-bred stock.

Ms. Brown writes with wise, disarming wit about her country-bred characters and their not-always-neighborly ways.

Jenny's country-bred superstitions give great poignancy to her sweet character, so needy for some "care assistant" of its own.

And the very name of play-actress had filled us both with a kind of vague horror, like the country-bred folk that we were.

His sturdy frame marked him as country-bred, and Lan felt an instant kinship with him.

The capital of the Great Republic was a new world to country-bred Washington Hawkins.

Lyon's country-bred honesty and optimism isn't diminished.

He was not timid in the least; such was not the way of the country-bred folk of Corwyn.

It had been a dusty hot walk from our home to the city, and there the paved streets had seemed to my country-bred feet infinitely wearisome.

It was a weighty question for a country-bred lad to have to settle, and yet settled it must be, and that speedily.

But I was young and spirited, and like most lads that have been country-bred, I had a great opinion of my shrewdness.

Of course we country-bred folk, Michael, never can realise what London streets are to children--very nearly Heaven, you know.

Countrybred chawbacon.