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  • Also, new-come immigrants tend to be more law-abiding than their children mainly because deportation awaits them if they step out of line and also because they have fewer opportunities for criminal activity since they have not yet assimilated well enough to know how to be criminal in our culture.

    Matthew Yglesias » O’Reilly on the Power Structure 2007

  • No matter, no matter — The fellow may be a new-come servant: he is not in livery, I see.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • His wife being gone, he shut the doore after her; which the new-come Neighbour perceyving, she sayde.

    The Decameron 2004

  • How? quoth the Abbot, thou art no childe, or a new-come hither, to be so easilie affrighted in our holy Church, where

    The Decameron 2004

  • That knocked some of the new-come spirit out of the noble on the walls above the high captain.

    Counting Up, Counting Down Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • But all three of my new-come pixies laughed merrily at Courfeyrac's joke, and I merited the sound a good omen for the height of Carnival to come.

    kuniklos Diary Entry kuniklos 2002

  • But when the new-come elf turned his way, stared at him from under the cowl of the low-pulled hood, Belli'mar Juraviel recognized those eyes and that face and was surprised - indeed, stunned - to discover that Lady Dasslerond herself had come out to find him.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • But when the new-come elf turned his way, stared at him from under the cowl of the low-pulled hood, Belli'mar Juraviel recognized those eyes and that face and was surprised - indeed, stunned - to discover that Lady Dasslerond herself had come out to find him.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • Elizabeth, new-come to her throne, not yet crowned or anointed, had to find her way round her palace, had to put her friends in high places and that quickly, had to act like a confident Tudor heir, and had somehow to deal at once with her church which was in open and determined opposition to her and which would, unless it was swiftly controlled, bring her down.

    The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996

  • But more than anything else, he was handsome and new-come to court, and an English Protestant bachelor, so when she danced with him and they were the center of gossip and speculation, it was good-natured.

    The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996

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