low-countries

I always like the way that 'extreme' is never applied to Tory Reform Group wets like Chris Patten or Michael Heseltine; because wanting Britain to become an offshore island in an empire ruled from the low-countries by unelected officials is really moderate isn't it?

The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum Daniel Korski 2010

But that the tennis-court-keeper knows better than I, for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not done a great while, because the rest of thy low-countries have made a shift to eat up thy holland: and God knows whether those that bawl out the ruins of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom; but the midwives say the children are not in the fault; whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are mightily strengthened.

Act II. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914