As Pascal says, if you can manage to be well-born it saves you thirty years. |
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They exude the princely confidence once associated with well-born Americans of a certain pedigree. |
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What does come through, not altogether attractively, is a steely determination in these well-born girls to stick with their own kind. |
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Imagine, a well-born young gentleman like himself, actually carrying something heavy! |
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It's a well-born, regular filly that, by this victory, confirmed her traditional ambitions. |
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He has the public persona of a well-born man who has upon occasion been a tourist among the disadvantaged. |
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They are part of a group of rich, well-born folk having a bit of a holiday and dressing up as shepherds and shepherdesses. |
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Whatever they did, they did it well, for they could rely on a good education and on the self-assurance common to well-born individuals. |
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Were he to observe today's scene, he might make the same pronouncement about well-born producers. |
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A high-caste, well-born, English-educated lawyer had voluntarily chosen to give up power and position and live the life of an Indian peasant. |
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They saw themselves as well-born and bred men who out of loyalty and conscience had chosen to defend their king. |
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Incisive observations by a tribally well-born immigrant. |
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There were more governesses than there were well-born children these days. |
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It was also optimistic and in this way at least egalitarian, the moral sense and common sense being shared by all men and not merely the educated and well-born. |
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I tilted my head back, sighing, wondering again how I had come to be like this, one of the many young well-born and well-dowered hostages in court. |
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In Illinois, I came across the well-born but feckless Niles Plymouth. |
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It was an almost insolent gesture for a well-born British woman then. |
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Kate starred in the school production as Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl who took speech lessons so that she could pass as a well-born lady. |
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This powerful but flexible tool even allowed less well-born individuals to bring forward their concerns. |
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Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony. |
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Well-born and bred Chasselas is highly sensitive to the diversity found in the soils, exposure and altitude. |
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