man of breeding
Example Sentences
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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
He has all the ease and poise of a traveled, polished young man of breeding.
From Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee
There are some things that a man of breeding may not witness—some things to look upon which is near akin to eavesdropping or reading the letters of another.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael
Miüsov, as a man of breeding and delicacy, could not but feel some inward qualms, when he reached the Father Superior's with Ivan: he felt ashamed of having lost his temper.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
