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- noun Plural form of
Chilian .
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Examples
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Among the Chilians was a naval petty officer, a surly, cunning -- faced creature whom nobody trusted, and from whom, therefore, all particulars of the plot had been kept secret.
Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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The property of the Peruvians was always respected, and the admiral spared no pains to convince the inhabitants that the Chilians were their friends and were hostile only to the Spaniards their oppressors.
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I grew upin new york with good friends who had fled Chile after the US assassinated Allende .30,000 Chilians were rounded up systematically and slaughtered for their political beliefs Do you think thats allright?
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The Chilians had retired baffled to their own hotel, and there was nothing for us but to accept the long evening of gelid torpor which we foresaw must follow the effort of the soup and wine to warm us at dinner.
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Chilians we saw the fun of many little hardships of travel which might have been insupportable without the vision.
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Valladolid, and in what seemed a disconsolate doubt, interrogating the windows of our hotel; and now we learned from the Chilians that he had been bitterly disappointed in the inn which a patrician omnibus had borne him away to from our envious eyes at the station.
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If the 5th of November had been worse for heat than it was it must still remain dear in our memory, because in the afternoon we met once more these Chilians of our hearts whom we had met in San Sebastian and Burgos and
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Chilians coming to our hotel from the hotel they had chosen, and from a search for hearthstones in others; and we drove to the only hotel they had left unvisited.
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When we came out to dinner after settling ourselves in our almost obtrusively accessible rooms, we were convinced of the wisdom of our choice of a hotel by finding our dear Chilians at one of the tables.
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Tiremenen, the Chilians Caucalhues, the colonists of Carmen
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