They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
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Bred-in-the-bone
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But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.
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Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age.
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Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.
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