The overall impression should be of a well-bred, elegant horse in miniature, Ms Bowles explained.

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Mouchoir was a word that well-bred French people couldn't allow themselves to utter or hear in public.

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Despite his well-bred charm and his cosmopolitan, establishment background (born in Paris, educated at Millfield and Oxford), he remains a quintessential outsider.

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Lichfield admitted to having relationships with many of his pretty subjects but, away from the camera, he found companionship in his own well-bred circle.

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Yet they proved to be less well-bred than originally planned.

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At the Manhattan headquarters of the IRS, visitors were greeted at the door by a well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home.

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When the Tories installed the fearsomely well-bred Mr Cameron, and he then kept George Osborne, another toff, as his shadow chancellor, party and leader bet that voters would no longer hold a penchant for shooting grouse against them.

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Newreader Sally Magnusson hands things over, and there follows a landmark for the royals, and thanks to the viral quality of the Internet, the first time that millions around the world will actually hear the well-bred Prince speak.

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