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Most Southerners were born with guns in their hands, and lives spent in hunting had made marksmen of them all.

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 Meanings and Examples of BORN
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born
 a.  existing as a result of birth
 a.  having a specific natural quality or ability
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  But the planters' ladies and the planters' slaves could not overlook the fact that he was not born a gentleman, even if their men folks could.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Most Southerners were born with guns in their hands, and lives spent in hunting had made marksmen of them all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Instinct stronger than reason and knowledge born of experience told her that he loved her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  She was more like her father than her younger sisters, for Carreen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christened Susan Elinor, prided herself on her elegance and ladylike deportment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Emmie's baby has been born and is dying and must be baptized.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky, he had been born with one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Charles Hamilton had not risen with the others and, finding himself comparatively alone with Scarlett, he leaned closer and, with the daring born of new love, whispered a confession.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  An adult emotion was being born, stronger than her vanity or her willful selfishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  In response to Ellen's letters, pleading with her to come home, she wrote minimizing the dangers of the siege, explaining Melanie's predicament and promising to come as soon as the baby was born.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  She tried to think of all the things Mammy and Ellen had done for her when Wade was born but the merciful blurring of the childbirth pains obscured almost everything in mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
16  He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
17  I believe that every person is born with talent.
18  By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born.
19  Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
20  He who is born a fool is never cured.
21  Many a flower is born to blush unseen.
22  He that is one born, once must die.
23  I was born with black hair all over my back, like some sort of freak.
24  I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
25  He was born of / to German parents.
26  No man is born wise.
27  Only love influence, and can realize born inspiration.
28  He was born with a squint.
29  We are all born flexible but as we grow older, we tend to seize up a little.
30  No one is born a genius.