In such a guise did the most popular of American novelists and one of the most eminent among modern writers of fiction first appear before his countrymen and the world.
Some of our cleverest fiction is largely devoted to studying the character of our countrymen abroad; that is, either denationalized Americans or Americans with a foreign background.
George Dobrila, the great regenerator of the Istrian Yugoslavs, began to rouse his countrymen and to induce them not to discard their own language.
The vehemence of his methods of centralization is supported and opposed by his countrymen with an almost equal vehemence.
He urged young Païssu to travel among his countrymen in search of manuscripts and legends.
Ljuba Yovanović was the idealist whose work was to arouse his fellow-countrymen by articles and poems.
When he died he did all that lay within his power to impress his views upon his countrymen by directing that all his slaves should be set free on the death of his wife.
His wonder would not have abated had he been told that the man for whom they mourned had wrested an empire from one, and at the time of his death was arming his countrymen against the other.
You may travel down to the sea some day with me if I join the caravans of the Arabs, and then if there are countrymen of yours on the coast, as I have heard, and they would pay me a good ransom for you, we may see about it.
Your countrymen have retired to Korti," the sheik said.
Here he found his co-religionists and countrymen regarded as Helots, and far more despised by Yankee and Puritan than the slaves in the South by their rulers.
Magnificent as are the results in Ireland, however, our countrymen in England have achieved the real marvels of the campaign.
Her own countrymen who would have travelled so far as to take his place, would have to be giants if the "several sizes" bigger were to be taken in literal earnest.
Who, that has read his powerful appeal to his countrymen when they were on the eve of welcoming back the tyranny and misrule which, at the expense of so much blood and treasure had been thrown off, can ever forget it?
We need no disguises, nor false pretences, nor subterfuges; enough for us to present before our fellow- countrymen the holy truths of freedom, in their unadorned and native beauty.
Eaton, returning from his romantic achievements in Tunis for the deliverance of white slaves, improved the occasion to read a lecture to his countrymen on the inconsistency and guilt of holding blacks in servitude.
Do your unbelieving countrymen in England all go to hell?
His father was in very comfortable circumstances, and consequently James Gilmour never had the struggle with poverty through which so many of his great countrymen have had to pass.
There are many of ourcountrymen here and your talents will be appreciated in America as well as in Kief.
I knew of more than one of my countrymen who had been "strict Catholics" once, but who had lamentably fallen off through knocking about the world.
But there are among Macdonald's papers some original statements in respect to Riel of the highest importance, from those of his fellow-countrymen who best knew him.
After stating O'Connor's appointment, the report continues: "About eighty Irishmen were sent to Morlaix to be formed into a company of officers and taught how they were to discipline and instruct their countrymen when they landed in Ireland.
Sickness brought despondency, and I seemed only to see our countrymen throwing away their lives in vain against the defences of a gallant people fighting for their liberty.
We could ride out there in little more than an hour and join hands with our countrymen and the big world outside.
Caro, who became distinguished among his countrymenfor his polite learning, was, in early life, secretary to the cardinal, M.
This custom was not peculiar to the countrymen of that historian.
You will see that I sometimes follow the custom of the Scots in describing my fellow-countrymen by the names of their paternal homes.
Ski are the thing, and here are my tiresome fellow-countrymen too prejudiced to have prepared themselves for the event.
But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
The next act in the war thrilled not alone the hearts of our countrymen but the world by its exceptional heroism.
My countrymen are apt to advance claims to kinship with distinguished English families on such slight grounds as to make it ridiculous," said Redclyffe, coloring.
He had accompanied the prelate several times when he went abroad, and had gone out with some of his countrymen who still held office at the court.
His gallant stand, however, had sufficed to give his countrymen time to complete their preparations, and the shield-wall of the Norsemen stretched across the gentle ascent from the bridge.
I looked round at the faces of the other men standing near, but they all seemed honest countrymen or town folk.
Concealment was now out of question, and he said boldly: "I defeated a party of your countrymen this morning.
In these circumstances, had her countrymen a right to insist on her immolation?
But it is not pretended that in any way whatever, by any antecedent act of hers or theirs, Iphigenia had incurred or had been subjected to a debt to her countrymen which could be paid off only with her life.
These savages, thought I, will soon be holding communication with some of my own countrymen perhaps, who with ease could restore me to liberty did they know of the situation I was in.
One can only say that those of theircountrymen who come over here and inflict upon us the ear-torturing melodies of their barrel-organs and accordions sadly belie the reputation of their country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countrymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
