man of breeding

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His manners, voice, presence, are all those of a man of breeding and self-importance.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea by Moses, Montrose Jonas

He was too grossly ignorant to know that a man of breeding, having entered by chance, would have turned and gone away, professing not to have seen.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Such was Henry Fielding's ancestry, and it cannot be too much insisted on that, throughout all the vicissitudes of his life, he was ever a man of breeding, no less than a man of wit.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.

He has every appearance," Crawshay declared, "of being a man of breeding.

From The Box with Broken Seals by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

"I certainly can see he's a man of breeding, just as you said."

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas