One day as dinner was preparing and provisions scarce, a countryman of mine, who accompanied me, suggested the propriety of keeping something in reserve for supper.
When the work was completed, the countryman declared that he had been cheated, and refused to pay for it.
And all had their cognizances, so that each might know his fellow, and Norman might not strike Norman, nor Frenchman kill his countryman by mistake.
But to be wounded by a fellow-countryman after having passed unharmed through all the perils of Quatre Bras and Waterloo!
He wants me to meet a great friend of his, and a countryman of ours, whose conversation he vowed would interest me.
Footnote 61: 'Here is he laid, to whom no one, either countryman or enemy, has been able to pay a due meed for his services.
When the man had first entered the detective had not paid much attention, but while speaking in answer to the visitor's statement, our hero discovered that the supposedcountryman was under a disguise, and his disguise was a good one.
The first ray of light came to him from our countryman Newport, who ascertained that a small parasite found on one of the wild bees was, in fact, the larva of the oil-beetle.
On some occasions I am sure that they do this only for pleasure, but on others, the Chileno countryman tells you that they are watching a dying animal, or the puma devouring its prey.
They are far better known, and we may be certain of the antiquity of incidents that are known in one form or another to every Gaelic-speaking countryman in Ireland or in the Highlands of Scotland.
Perhaps no Irish countrymanhad ever that exact rhythm in his voice, but certainly if Mr. Synge had been born a countryman, he would have spoken like that.
But no; no sooner had I got there than a countryman hallooed him away on the far side.
Illustration: How a Countryman "Bought a Watch.
She had inveigled an unsophisticated countryman into a stateroom and robbed him.
One of the guards of our Lord's sepulchre, who would not let himself be bribed by the Jews, was his fellow countryman and friend.
This countryman of Ctesiphon, afterwards followed him into Spain.
When a countryman tells us that he 'fell all of a heap,' I cannot help thinking that he unconsciously points to an affinity between our word tumble, and the Latin tumulus, that is older than most others.
Will any one familiar with the New England countryman venture to tell me that he does not speak of sacred things familiarly?
On his return to Paris, he happened, accidentally, to be in a house belonging to a fellow-countryman and friend of Moreau's.
The arrival of their celebrated countrymanimmediately set all the inhabitants of the island in motion.
Had I the honor to be a fellow-countryman of Scott, and had I command of the racial tom-tom, it seems to me that I would tund upon it in honor of that great man until I dropped.
Our countrymancarries weight, and yet wins the race at disadvantage.
Please stop," but thecountryman still continued to move on at his slow pace.
He thought it fine fun to chaff the old countryman so shabbily dressed, and who drawled his words, and seemed so heavy and lumbering in his movements.
Mr Chollop was so delighted at the smartness of his excellent countryman having been too much for the Britisher, and at the Britisher's resenting it, that he could contain himself no longer, and broke forth in a shout of delight.
Early in the morning, the samecountryman came creeping, creeping, creeping home.
Not a bad place to dispose of a countryman in, I should think, Tom.
Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh from Natur's mould!
Here is a worthy fellow-countryman who is trying to live my life as he gathers it from these letters.
If the countryman does not live on the best the fault is his own.
He there alludes to Watkin as "the one countryman he knew in Cincinnati--a man who had preceded him into exile by nearly forty years.
The experience of every countryman tells him that bare or fallow land is more easily washed away than land under vegetation.
One can conceive the rage of the old Spanish pedants at the Netherlander's appearance, and still more at what followed, if we are to believe Hugo Bloet of Delft, his countryman and contemporary.
What a transition for a countryman visiting London for the first time,--the passing from the crowded Strand or Fleet Street by unexpected avenues into its magnificent ample squares, its classic green recesses!
But Kitty was not quite leichtsinnig, although she did stroll through the garden sometimes with Fritz Goebel, sometimes with Otho Weiss, sometimes with her fellow-countryman Joe Buckley.
They are far better known, and one may be certain of the antiquity of incidents that are known in one form or another to every Gaelic-speaking countryman in Ireland or in the Highlands of Scotland.
I am a son of a countryman of the Luigne of Teamhair," said Finn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countryman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
