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Example sentences for "foreign devil"

  • There was the most admirable courtesy shown me; it was the "foreign teacher" they wished to see, not the "foreign devil.

  • The villagers strolled down to see the foreigner whom children well in the background called "Yang kweitze" (foreign devil).

  • The underlying fact of the matter is that exchange value as such and with it its increase become the final aim.

  • Nor could one man, not even a foreign devil, close the gate unaided, since it often has been tried and they have proved too heavy.

  • Is not the man with the black face, standing by your side at this moment, a foreign devil?

  • The guard has not seen the foreign devil or surely they would have arrested him," he cried, in the awed silence that followed his shot.

  • They kept calling out, but the words they used were not the familiar "foreign devil" or "ugly barbarian.

  • The men about the gateway scowled and muttered "Foreign devil," as the three strangers passed them.

  • Nonsense, Panky; no one saw us but Higgs, and the evidence of a foreign devil, in such straits as his, could not stand for a moment.

  • I think he feared I should attack him without making sure whether he was a foreign devil or no.

  • Your son is bound to throw him there as a foreign devil, without the formality of a trial.

  • They did not distinguish one "foreign devil" from another.

  • Lo San to avenge himself for his kicking, at the same time acquainting people at large with the fact that the wretch was the impudent wind-inflated hireling of a foreign devil.

  • He trumps up some paltry charge, works up his ignorant comrades into a fury, and sends them to murder the "foreign devil.

  • Yield, foreign devil,' the man hissed in his ear.

  • As we have said, a European is still a 'foreign devil' to the bulk of the people to-day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about equal; called also; domestic state; foreign articles; foreign bodies; foreign born; foreign capital; foreign coin; foreign commerce; foreign competition; foreign invasion; foreign land; foreign matter; foreign minister; foreign money; foreign nations; foreign policy; foreign ports; foreign relations; foreign travel; foreign troops; foreign yoke; little east; prismatic crystals; ruled over; struck him