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Naturally obstreperous northern boatmen
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to the manner born
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a. Familiar from birth with a specified custom, behaviour, accoutrement etc.; naturally suited to (it).
Usage examples of to the manner born.
Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace, Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
By some remarkable dialectic contortion Tara Malcomess Courtney had retained her social conscience intact while taking up the management of the Weltevreden household as though to the manner born.