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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
Early on, he suffers the indignity of being three shots behind an Englishman.
The hunter refused to acknowledge the farmer, so the farmer struck the Englishman, killing him.
The jug-eared Englishman meanwhile dressed down in a winter jacket, crumpled looking jeans and black trainers.
So, there were an Irishman, an Englishman and an American wrecked on an island.
As an Englishman, local PGA pro Richard Livingston hardly qualifies as a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Several decades later the Englishman Davy attempted to obtain the metal hidden in alums.
This is the story of three of them, an Englishman, a German and an American.
The idea of a real Englishman is almost a contradiction in terms, like talking about a real theme park or a real golf club.
Though she addressed the Englishman, her eyes were trained on Theroux, who winked roguishly at her.
A lone Englishman, dressed in a white Rugby shirt, bravely ventured through the bar to some friendly jeers.
At a rare soft moment in his life, H. L. Mencken was fetched by a novel penned by a madcap Englishman.
Wodehouse's satire of the refined Englishman reinforces the view of Hollywood as a preview of British decline.
The Englishman is the backmarker in the field, running off three metres in the famous 110m handicap sprint.
There is no natural reason why an Englishman or a Scotchman should not be as punctual in performing agreements as a Dutchman.
I knew why we Irishmen were here, but why an American, a French, a Scotsmen, and an Englishman would want the Irish Emerald, I had no clue.
The Englishman will have to beat off fierce Scandinavian competition in the most snowbound event of the season.
The clever money appears to be on the Togolese striker rather than the Englishman.
Archie is an indecisive Englishman who can only make a decision after tossing a coin.
He arrived back in England with very valuable treasure and the distinction of being the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
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Twice the big Englishman was presented with a gaping goal and the perfect ball but twice he somehow contrived to miss the target.
From the twelfth to the fourteenth century a well-educated Englishman was trilingual.
She opens the door again to the see the blankly smiling Englishman standing under his umbrella.
Henriette descended from German-Jewish bloodlines, married an Englishman and then, through her portrait, adopted the identity of an English lady.
The right type of Englishman is comfortable dealing with the underside of places like this.
She kneeled here, where the indent is deeper, next to where the Englishman lay.
His contempt for foreigners includes the Englishman, but is carefully concealed.
The modern boxing glove was invented in 1743, the brainchild of Englishman Jack Broughton.
Police said they kept the soused Englishman in custody as much for his own safety as that of the public.
Englishman Simon Chalk will be official record-holder for the fastest rowed crossing of the Indian Ocean after all.
He took it on the chin like an Englishman, and was rather charming, as the very smart can do.
This is not to say that every single Englishman actively opposed the Normans.
An Englishman living in the area was held by police on a number of occasions, but was always released without charge.
In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.
As an Englishman opposed to Indian independence, Churchill was naturally unsympathetic to the leader of the national movement.
Jenkin's film is a period piece, the story of an Iban servant girl who falls in love with a young Englishman in British-ruled Borneo.
The Englishman proceeds to pull out two cloth bank bags, seemingly full of money.
The house was bought in 1969 by an Englishman, who restored it meticulously and furnished it with appropriate period pieces.
The conchologist was probably John Warren, described by Dall as a stout, florid, old Englishman who dealt in shells and curios.
At one point there was an Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman and a Scot on the first page of the leaderboard.
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A jocular Englishman, Terry has been in New Zealand for 12 years, organising tours of the best dive spots for visiting Poms.
In Singapore, however, Emily realizes that she can't go away with her Englishman and Fred learns that his princess was merely a fortune-hunter.
The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman.
It is unrealistic to expect all our answers to come from a long dead Englishman, let alone a pale Galilean.
Meanwhile in Japan, a geisha is made pregnant by an abusive Englishman, who abandons her.
The tenor playing Gerald, the Englishman who dares to love an Indian demi-goddess, was in middling form, dramatically and vocally.
The young Englishman, despite his goals in Portugal, is not a natural goalscorer in the vein of Pele.
Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.
Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.
I believe it is my right as an Englishman to celebrate my national day and an infringement of my rights to stop celebrations.
But he had declared of himself that he had been born in England, and that he was an Englishman.
Nor was the Finn thrilled by the prospect of having the abrasive Englishman for a team-mate next year.
He was an Englishman committed to his nation's titanic economic struggle against the Dutch.
Those fans who want an Englishman to run the national side will be encouraged by the football Premiership table this morning.
Firstly, I still believe that the England manager's job should have gone to an Englishman.
The Englishman Michael Faraday built the first dynamo, capable of turning mechanical energy into electricity, only 173 years ago.
This quiet Englishman who never used an uncivil phrase, never sought high office, but won the affection of everyone he met, and attained the highest office in Rotary.
Having recently met a young Englishman of preternatural charm and physique, I surmised that after a day in the country together, I had managed to engender his affections.
Can you imagine an American broadcasting company asking an Englishman to take charge of it?
Even after he became a citizen in 1955, he regarded himself as an Englishman abroad.
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In 1863, as the civil war still raged in America, an Englishman called James Tredennick signed on as an ensign of the 57th Foot in Queen Victoria's army.
In the next century an Englishman employed by the Tsar visited Central Asia, and this was followed by the dispatch of emissaries to the various khanates of the region.
The story of the rather over-refreshed and over-excited Englishman who espied the rather promising looking Latvian lurking in a semi-lit and semi-private place.
It begins with an encounter between Malory, a repressed Englishman restlessly wandering the globe, and the unnamed narrator, as they holiday in Europe.
Any sensible Englishman does the same, knowing that the English weather most often delivers up summer in short bursts, to be enjoyed without delay or hesitation.
She was not wearing hejab but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman.
She was not wearing hejab, but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman.
The second monster was an Englishman, Richard Vyse, who on a visit to Egypt in 1835 became fascinated by the pyramids of Giza.
The Englishman coming up behind her seized her where he could, in the region of her coccyx and her left rib cage.
Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor.
The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
What's the worst faux pas an Englishman can make in a pitch?
The Englishman, who has just completed the best of his four seasons at the club, admits that he wouldn't be the player he is now had it not been for the talismanic Swede.
Cary Grant, you will remember, was the sophisticated, urbane Englishman.
It was captained by an Englishman named Tim Pickery, a mate called Corbett, five Frenchmen, 12 Englishmen and about 20 wild Irish kerns said to be men without mercy.
Lee won that on a respotted black and once Ding missed an easy pink in the next frame the balance shifted towards the Englishman, who went on to triumph.
He was a radical Englishman, a conscientious objector and one-time Marxist who believed that a more modern newspaper would attract a new, more democratic reader.
An emotionally constipated Englishman is something we're all used to, but when the hero is American you have to wonder what's wrong with the chap.
The Englishman, also 22 years of age, seemed broader, taller, his muscles more pronounced and his expression meaner, next to Simpson's pallid wiriness.
Yet, for all his protestations and refusal to talk to James, actions speak louder than words, and yesterday the Englishman had turned over a new leaf and turned on the charm.
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Shakespeare makes the point that even the other beer-and-whisky drinking northern Europeans are nothing, in the size of their potations, compared with the Englishman.
In the same year, the Englishman William Rivers discarded evolutionism in favour of diffusionist theories to explain the historical spread of customs and belief systems.
In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, near a boat anchorage around what is today Portsmouth Square.
The South Shetland Islands, which lie within the re-named territory, were the first part of Antarctica to be seen, by Englishman William Smith.
The Englishman turned on the style after the break, sinking a superb total clearance of 131 to take the lead for the first time.
When Englishman Andy Loveland's son turned three, his father wanted to teach him to ride a bike, but without training wheels.
Mick Extance, from Derbyshire was the first Englishman past the post, on a Rally Raid UK motorbike.
The Englishman was to remain there for three weeks, this time posing as a hakeem, secretly observing and noting down everything of significance.
Durgin's of Concord, New Hampshire, crafted by the Englishman Rowland Rhodes.
In the 1850s, the Englishman Charles Lawrence was responsible for developing the game in Ireland through his coaching.
Oliver Cromwell, an Englishman born in Huntingdon, emerged victorious at the end of the Civil War.
One Englishman, John Daniel, from the upper echelons of the yeoman class, brought in 39 recruits by himself.
In sculpture, the most familiar representatives are the Italian Antonio Canova, the Englishman John Flaxman and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen.
He spoke excellent English, with the accent of an educated Englishman, although occasional Germanisms would appear in his constructions.
Englishman Steve McCormack is the team's coach, having coached since 2004, with Danny Brough captaining the side.
He is the only Englishman that seems to have traversed these regions, as man, simply, not as John Bull.
If a Southerner is slain or an Englishman, he shall pay four marks to the plaintiff and two marks to the king.
The place was actually set up by a Nipponophile Englishman, but the kitchen staff are all Japanese and its Far Eastern credentials bear scrutiny.
This was allegedly copied by an Englishman who had seen the same activity in China.
In the early 1600s, the Englishman Stephen Bennet started hunting walrus at Bear Island.
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In 2012 Tom Gullick, an Englishman who lives in Spain, became the first birdwatcher to log over 9,000 species.
In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America.
A 1499 voyage, led by merchant William Weston of Bristol, was the first expedition commanded by an Englishman to North America.
Two botanists went on the first voyage, Englishman Joseph Banks and Swedish Daniel Solander, between them collecting over 3,000 plant species.
The Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole in December 1911, following a dramatic race with the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.
The Norwegian Roald Amundsen reached the Pole in December 1911, following a race with the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.
Lord Chancellor Gardiner and the House of Commons petitioned Mary to consider marrying an Englishman, preferring Edward Courtenay.
The wergild of an Englishman was set at a value twice that of a Briton of similar wealth.
The Danes then placed an Englishman, Ecgberht I of Northumbria, on the throne of Northumbria as a puppet ruler.
By 1096 no bishopric was held by any Englishman, and English abbots became uncommon, especially in the larger monasteries.
William was unhorsed by Robert and was only saved from death by an Englishman.
He was no Englishman, but it does not follow that he gave to Normandy, Anjou, or Aquitaine the love or care that he denied to his kingdom.
Amongst Raleigh's acquaintances in Munster was another Englishman who had been granted land there, poet Edmund Spenser.
One of the most interesting sights for spectators will be Englishman John Indri in his knee-high Darrian T90, which looks like a frisbee.
As a visiting Englishman, he was once invited to dine with Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, who was unaware of who he was.
After his death Irish and English newspapers disputed whether Wellington had been born an Irishman or Englishman.
On 1 December 1990, Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette broke through the service tunnel with the media watching.
The cannon was cast at the Alexandrovski factory in 1802, the factory's director being the Englishman, Charles Gascoigne.
He ruled a large number of monasteries, and claimed to be the first Englishman to introduce the Rule of Saint Benedict into English monasteries.
He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant Arts to the other Glories of his Country.
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As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman.
The first Englishman to mention the story was Bede and he seems to have taken it, not from native texts or traditions, but from The Book of the Popes.
The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609, and after whom Canada's Hudson Bay is also named.
Fuca's claim remains controversial because there is only one surviving written account of it found, his account as related to an Englishman, Michael Locke.
By the 1030s Cnut's direct administration of Wessex had come to an end, with the establishment of an earldom under Godwin, an Englishman from a powerful Sussex family.
Their pilot was William Adams, the first Englishman to reach Japan.
In defence the Englishman took any punishment that came his way.
Participation in sports and all sorts of leisure activities increased for the average Englishman, and his interest in spectator sports increased dramatically.
In theory, every Englishman had an obligation to serve for forty days.
The first Englishman recorded to have taken slaves from Africa was John Lok, a London trader who, in 1555, brought to England five slaves from Guinea.
I am as much of a caninophile as the next Englishman. I had a beagle at the time, name of Biggles, and I adored him as if he were my own child, almost.
It was during this expedition that he climbed a high tree in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Panama and thus became the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean.
The 36-year-old Englishman looked like a quintessential American dressed in the weekend staple of sweatpants, a hoodie, trainers and a baseball cap, the Daily Mail reported.
Other highlights include movies The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, Brassed Off, I Capture the Castle, Five Children and It, and In a Dark Place.
The Englishman held a three-shot overnight lead after a stunning second round of 61, and continued his momentum yesterday after birdying four of the first seven holes.
This Englishman should neither out-do him in generosity nor affrontery.
He was succeeded as archbishop by Deusdedit, a native Englishman.
John Holland, an Englishman, was one of the bank's founders.
Saint Lebuin, an Englishman who between 745 and 770 preached to the Saxons, mainly in the eastern Netherlands, built a church and made many friends among the nobility.
An off the ball incident led to N'Zogbia confronting Wilshere before leaning his head into the Englishman and giving referee Lee Probert no choice but to show the red card.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Englishman seemed to muse, for his brow lowered, and he made no answer.
An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.
It was not enough that a freeborn Afro-American should be caught kneeling to an Englishman.
As for the Anglophobia, the Englishman who thinks the less of him for that must have very poor and unhappy brains.
No amount of bribing or browbeating could move the confounded Englishman from his stand.
He did not dine every day, and when he did it was a cenobite's meal, little suited to the taste of a true Englishman.
Mr. Cheever was an Englishman of the old school, and prayed for King George.
Some of the Cistercian monasteries in Ireland refused to admit any Englishman.
The Englishman who desires a new sensation should pay a visit to the claddagh.
Nelson had worked for an Englishman at Elizabethville and acquired his cognomen.
And to that old French province the Englishman of the colonies must go to find his country!
Night fell and the Englishman became aware that the conservancy of Jodhpur might be vastly improved.
And to think that you, an Englishman, could consign your fellow-countrymen to such a fate as that!
There was also an Englishman who worked his passage, having been the cooper of a whaler that was wrecked.
Then you get the real British flavor, which the cosmopolite Englishman loses.
In fact, it was a part of the gallant fellow's coxcombry to play the Englishman.
It was a damnable presumption, anyhow, something that only an Englishman could be capable of.
At one base I was waiting when they wheeled in a stretcher with the remains of an Englishman who had been trying to defuse a bomb.
Your lands, your principalities, to devolve on the child of an humble Englishman!
There was sammie, a prototype of the caricatured Englishman in our comic papers.
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It may be that we do not read sartor Resartus as zealously as the Englishman.
Max had not expected the savate from an Englishman, and he was very glad of the warning.
Luckily for the Englishman he had clutched Dubois before the latter could attempt any of the expedients of the savate.
There were few people in London or elsewhere who knew the history of this scallywag Englishman.
How did it happen that an Englishman should be in such a discreditable position?
I have never seen a man get off his horse as quick as did that stranger Englishman.
With only whiskers nobody could take Monsieur for anything but an Englishman.
It was impossible to believe that an Englishman could be, of all places, in Essen.
Oh, I have met an Englishman who was angry with Etna for being the shape it is.
He says as I'm the ony Englishman as he has ewer known who can allus giv a answer rite off to ewery question as he arsks me!
The Englishman had the torso of a prize-fighter, with a face like that of a fair-haired baby.
This morning they made an attack on an Englishman going to visit your Lordship at Foggia, and carrying rich jewels.
Here was indeed a fulmination to strike an Englishman breathless and dumb with amazement.
Some say his father was an Englishman, some say a Jew, and some say his mother was a Gipsy.
Nevertheless, the contempt inspired by the groundling served the Englishman in good stead at a critical moment.
He was the best type of the good-natured, level-headed, hard-hitting Englishman.
Blair, an Englishman, finds fault with the picture of the harpies in Virgil.
Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world.
Once upon a time it was impossible for an Englishman to see the slave market.
Mr. sparling was an Englishman, and a man of some means who was devoting himself to exploration in Asia Minor.
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His manner was sphinxlike again, and the Englishman eyed him curiously, feeling a strong desire to kick him in the shins.
The Englishman does wear pajamas, but the word with him takes on an Icelandic meaning.
While I was fighting my opponent, Immelmann had tackled another Englishman and had brought him down in the same locality.
The princess who resigned a throne for love, who preferred an untitled Englishman to an imperially connected archduke!
The young Englishman turned toward me, as I was indicated by Mr. Stewart's gesture.
Many an educated Englishman has published such a volume of juvenilia and sinned no more.
The munshi said nothing but followed the Englishman with his one workable eye.
Has folded up his turban, put away his kaftan, hung up his yataghan, and once more resumed the dress of commonplace Englishman.
Then Creagh returned with a cheery, hospitable Englishman, who invited me to consider the tea garden my own.
The Thakur's tonga came up with a rush, ran deliberately across the bows of the Englishman, chipped a pony, and passed on.
From similar motives I did not invest in the lounge suit to which an Englishman is addicted.
He hated me, this Englishman, because I had been before him in transfixing the animal.
Never after four months in tripolitania did John laugh at the Englishman who carried his tub with him.
They are all that should inspire the virtuous emotions of a true-born Englishman.
Your Englishman is always afraid to commit himself to criticism without the refuge of a tu quoque.
On the road which the Englishman took, Miquelon is the nearest village, not two leagues from here.
As Flint looked at Winifred, he felt an absurd jealousy of the monocled Englishman who presumed to show his admiration so plainly.
The average Englishman is tremendously knowledgable about his own concerns and monumentally ignorant about all other things.
The phlegmatic Englishman stamps and gesticulates with all the energy of a madman.
Red-faced and white-bearded, he was unmistakably an Englishman of the upper class.
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I want the practical Englishman to settle his muzzle in a nosebag of ideas.
While he could vociferate that sound, he had rights as an Englishman, and would not sleep in a gutter, like a dog!
There he was met by another Englishman by the name of Wellington who introduced him to Waterloo.
No Englishman could be convicted of any crime against a Welchman, but by an English judge and jury.
For that matter, an Irishman or a Welshman is more romantic than an Englishman to-day.
On the other hand, the westernised Chinaman does not acquire the peculiar virtues of the Englishman.
It was in a swell hotel run by an Englishman and Billy was installed as pantryman.
The young Englishman took off his hat, and produced a phrase book from his pocket.
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn't have walked alone.
I was all ready to go, and I had got the coachman, who is an Englishman, to bring down my poor box and to fetch me a cab.
I have been told that never was there an Englishman on earth like the one I portrayed in my novel.
We pretermit events more or less irritating to follow the urbane Englishman.
If only he hadn't mixed himself up with that lot, he might have passed anywhere for a pucka Englishman.
No Englishman ever endeavours to push through a gate that is always bolted.
He spoke by a renegado Englishman, for whose safe return there was a promise.
Why, I thought I said at the first that he was a nobleman, an Englishman.
Was Hawthorne, then, simply an Englishman living in America?
The Englishman traversed a shadowy wood, then went by silvered fields.
This meant a late call-up for ADOR reserve sailor Alex Higby, with the Englishman up until now working as sailmaker for the shore crew.
What we call simply football is Rugby or rugger to the Englishman.
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A group of yellow-trousered Punjab policemen, headed by a hot and perspiring young Englishman, parted the crowd about the carriages.
The Englishman then turned round and described the combat without omitting a single detail.
This, from an Englishman born and bred in the Midlands, is praise indeed.
He had me in stitches with his blisteringly brilliant take on the classic 'an Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman walk into a bar' gag.
I painted for the Englishman his coat of arms, and he gave me one fl.
Turning and twisting in mid-air it fell with ever-increasing velocity and the Englishman held his breath as the thing hurtled toward them.
The Englishman deliberately omits the capture of the pennon.
Gaynsforth, although he was an Englishman and young, showed himself to be possessed of a sense of humor.
No enemy has set foot upon your soil, no Englishman has seen his womankind dishonoured or his home crumble into ashes.
Newman did not hear his voice, but perceived that he presented the dorsal expression of a well-dressed Englishman.
But how was this pestilent young cub of an Englishman to be got rid of?
Curiously enough, the man who must know most about the whole thing is an Englishman, one of the most curious mortals in the British Empire.
He was a burly Englishman, wrapped snugly in the folds of a greatcoat.
The Englishman vows the Italian reeks with the scent of garlic.
And sentimentally, not imaginatively, the Englishman will die.
What Englishman issues forth at morn, without one beneath his arm?
He waxed eloquent again, but the Englishman was busy with the phrase book.
Yet it betrayed that interest in the universal which the average Teuton possesses and the average Englishman does not.
Instinctively Lenoir divined that his betrayer was the young Englishman.
The sight of the civilized girl and the dapper, khaki clad Englishman had aroused in Korak memories long dormant.
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And finally, the Englishman is too practical to be a utopist.
At such times, Mr. Quinn felt as if he could annihilate an Englishman.
The author is an appreciative Englishman, and tells his story well.
The Englishman turned to give Stubbs orders for arming the crew.
As I came into the public room, I saw one of our Englishman bargaining with a dealer for a horse, his own having died yesterday from bleeding.
Gilbert and Felix Williamson, and is about two men, an Australian and Englishman, who are rival neighbours living in Wagga Wagga in Australia.
So said Bartholomew the Englishman in the thirteenth century.
For bending down under the sloping roof was a European, to all appearance an Englishman, in linen clothes and white hat.
It wears out more quickly than the bodily machine of the Englishman.
Ah,' said the Englishman at last, rubbing his pony's damp withers with his whip-butt.
What enviable privileges are annexed to the birth of an Englishman!
England and the Englishman are as red rags to its bull-headed rage.
There is a Burman lady I know who is married to an Englishman.
Then she returned to the center of the room and spoke rapidly to the Englishman, gesturing occasionally toward the body of the slain man.
An Englishman threw him a piastre, and he turned into a cafe.
Being an Englishman, he was incontestably right in doing so.
At Messina they took on coal, oranges, five Americans, and one Englishman.
He took pride in his dress and was as cleanly as an Englishman.
The Spaniard 'is sure' that it was that of an Englishman, but 'judges by the intonation' altogether, 'as he has no knowledge of the English.
Looking round, I saw the Englishman engaged in coiling a rope close to me.
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The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman.
Even I, safe as an Englishman, and even Tellson's, important as they are to French credit, avoid all naming of the matter.
Besides our three selves, there wasn't an Englishman in corunna.
De Winter took us to the house of a Spaniard, who, he said, had become naturalized as an Englishman by the guineas of his new compatriots.
The driver of the coach was an Englishman by the name of nunn.
The Englishman headed his men, his long face sinister in the lamplight.
It would not be right for an Englishman to permit himself to be treated in that way, without retaliating.
I'm a poor Englishman who has made his escape from the lazaretto.
There is an Englishman here, with his sister, and they seem to be rather nice people.
It seemed to me to be obvious that this Greek girl had been carried off by the young Englishman named Harold Latimer.
The well-educated Englishman, German, and American are different things.
The masseur is an Englishman and has seen most of my pictures.
He learned to wash himself with the Levitical scrupulosity of the native-born, who in his heart considers the Englishman rather dirty.
Barclay seems to have been first an Englishman, then an ecclesiastic.
Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner.
My granddaughter, you may have heard, is engaged to an Englishman.
Pocahontas, their little sister, going to marry an Englishman!
Williams, a historian, starts with self-taught Englishman William Dampier, who hopped a ship to Java at age 20 to begin a 13-year trip around the world.
There is far too much glorification in England, just now, of the mere physical qualities which an Englishman shares with the savage and the brute.
Late in the afternoon the Englishman was still plodding wearily along, forced to stop often for rest when he heard the sound of the galloping feet of a horse behind him.
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He had sent the party after Abdul Kamak, and he was wroth that instead of his erstwhile lieutenant they had sent back a wounded and useless Englishman.
Placing his eye close to the aperture he saw the girl and the young man of which the Englishman had spoken seated on opposite sides of a low table upon which food was spread.
Bunster fled away in a cutter to Guvutu, where he signalized himself by beating up a young Englishman already crippled by a Boer bullet through both hips.
Nuttall, likewise an Englishman, younger in years, who has since made himself known as the author of Travels in Arkansas, and a work on the Genera of American Plants.
The Englishman switched at the rose-hedge in the side of the drive.
There were once a Scotsman and an Englishman and an Irishman serving in the army together, who took it into their heads to run away on the first opportunity they could get.
The Englishman entered, and found Morrel seated at a table, turning over the formidable columns of his ledger, which contained the list of his liabilities.
The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq.
The buildings are smoky and blackened, from the use of bituminous coal, but an Englishman is well used to that appearance, and indisposed to quarrel with it.
I speak to you now unofficially, as an Englishman to his guest.
In a tournament cut to 54 holes due to rain, van der Welt finished 15 under par in Durban, two shots ahead of Englishman Matt Baldwin and Jorge Campillo of Spain.
Give me a chance, then, said the Englishman, good-humoredly.
The common dock is also widely disseminated, and will, I fear, for ever remain a proof of the rascality of an Englishman, who sold the seeds for those of the tobacco plant.
The Englishman bestrode the world with supreme self-confidence.
He could have sworn it once belonged to an Englishman, and to an Englishman of long before by token of the heavy gold circlets still threaded in the withered ear-lobes.
