Countrymen

The just pride and laudable prejudice of England has restrained this communication of idioms; and of all the nations on this side of the Alps, my Countrymen are the least practised, and least perfect in the exercise of the French tongue.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

The Countrymen are a band that doesn't have to think or ask what they will do next it's continuous.

Expecting Rain Whippleworld 2009

The Approbation of my Countrymen is a great Pleasure and Support to me but that Approbation does not extend I fancy so far as you and several others seem to imagine, if it does I am unfit for their Purposes, having neither Health nor Patience, for the arduous and trying Duties of their first Magistrate, an honor too high and a situation too delicate for me.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

"Countrymen," he explained, as he attended Vendale to the door.

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens 1841

The austere Roman nobility of the letter's title, To My Fellow Countrymen, suffered when the reader got to the end and discovered the treacherous address – "Valbonne, France" – but that turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding between Osborne and his secretary in London, who'd taken the playwright's dictation and not realised that he wanted his sunny location omitted.

Cursing one's homeland before fleeing overseas, Martin Amis, is a cliche 2011

Morris took great satisfaction when Adams wrote him in May 1783, “I wish I were in Congress, that I might assist you in persuading our Countrymen to pay taxes and build ships.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Countrymen who have to labour all the hours of daylight to get their living cannot, in addition, keep up a day and night vigil for long.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

The eulogy praised Dwight Eisenhower, like George Washington, as “First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen.”

Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

Morris took great satisfaction when Adams wrote him in May 1783, “I wish I were in Congress, that I might assist you in persuading our Countrymen to pay taxes and build ships.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Friends, New Romans, Countrymen (even neoclowns) ... welcome to The New Age of Reason.

Obama Hits Back: Debate With McCain And Bush Over Foreign Policy Is One "I Will Win" 2009