true-born
Britishadjective
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To Berrio's English rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, Trinidad was to be the beginning of a South American empire, where Indians and true-born Englishmen would unite to destroy the power of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
But trouble fairly brims over when a man is born, as was Aubrey Menen, of an Irishwoman and a Hindu, is registered as a native Briton and educated like a true-born Englishman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through all his would-be paganism we feel that at bottom he is after all a323 true-born and wrong-headed Englishman.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
The housemaid, a true-born Scotch girl, came down one morning to find the poor cook on her knees in the act of imploring Heaven to make her fire burn.
From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max
Presently a true-born little Briton proposed that an annual dinner, in connection with the paper, should take place.
From John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced by O'Rell, Max
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