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Meanings of good breeding in English

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Usage of good breeding in English
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So she did what any young lady of good breeding would do.
Changeless
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The age of good breeding has passed; insolence has taken its place.
Wise or Otherwise
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The burgomaster, who was not entirely lacking in good breeding, became calmer.
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
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He had carried his bewilderment to the very limits of good breeding.
The Cinema Murder
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She thought her guest was trespassing beyond the bounds of good breeding.
Virgie's Inheritance
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In his relations with others, one should never forget his good breeding.
Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ...
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So much for the good breeding of this friend of George IV.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
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They affect to despise good blood and good breeding and good manners.
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
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Every home should be a school of good manners and good breeding.
Pushing to the Front
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And he regretted profoundly that good breeding obliged him to say so.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
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To do so is to commit an unpardonable offence against good breeding.
Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
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Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.-Bulwer
The True Citizen: How to Become One
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Joko, show your good breeding by giving a pipe to my guest.
A Hungarian Nabob
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Punctuality in meeting social obligations is a mark of good breeding.
Millennium
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Such is the requirement of good breeding in preferring a request.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2
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But what can I do consistently with good breeding to invite a confession?
In a glass darkly
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