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- noun Plural form of
countryman .
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Examples
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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 jen 2005
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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.
Archive 2005-11-01 jen 2005
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“Do you call my countrymen servile?” and she started up.
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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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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.
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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 Various
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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.
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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.
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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.
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