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  1. n. Plural form of countryman.

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  • “And I completely disagree with your argument using the assumption of innocence as the starting point; saving the lives of your countrymen is more important.”

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  • “Of course I defended my people, and reminded them that the fact that the Makonde have been left behind by their fellow countrymen is no fault of their own.”

    tunaendelea na madawa

  • ““Do you call my countrymen servile?” and she started up.”

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte

  • “The irony of becoming ill while in the process of trying to provide medical help for his countrymen is not lost on Mutombo.”

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  • “We are assured, not only by the writer of the letter in question, but by the sages of New York, that the Polish peasants were not willing to fight for Poland, that they called their countrymen now in arms against Rossia 'dogs of nobles,' and 'that it was really their duty to rise against and denounce their former _masters_ to”

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

  • “In other words, he will have some of his own friends, at any rate some of his own countrymen from the same part of the British Isles to which he belongs himself.”

    Can Canada Remain British

  • “But the Jew who really counts in America, who comes into intimate contact with his American countrymen, is the liberal Jew - and when we speak of Jews in this essay, we have this group in mind.”

    The Social Disability of the Jew

  • “By one black deed of treacherous barter and sale, of which none of your countrymen is cognizant but myself, you have forfeited the confidence of this government.”

    The Filigree Ball

  • “Wallace, who had never thought on the coffer, since he knew it was under the protection of St. Fillan, shook his head: – "A far different meed do I seek, my friend!" said he; "to behold these happy countenances of my liberated countrymen is greater reward to me than would be the development of all the splendid mysteries which the head of Baliol could devise.”

    The Scottish Chiefs

  • “He ransomed four millions of his own countrymen from the thraldom of two”

    Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist

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