A fellow townsman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Cabinet Minister coming to stay in the house of a townsman was a thing to be wondered at, to be talked about, to be afraid of, to be. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference
"countryman, rustic, clown, paysan, villager," still signify a rude and untaught person, as opposed to the words "townsman" and "citizen". From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
"Will you try your swimming against this townsman?". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The Master said, The plain townsman is the bane of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
He was already turning his mount when the townsman added. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
(Perhaps, as a townsman, he is unwilling to be more particular). From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
Teddy 1 thoughtful 1 tough 1 town 5 townsman 5 undesirable 2 unit 1. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Association in Insanity] Reference
There's an Irish doctor, a townsman of mine, who lived next door to. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Truly the townsman was profitting by the exhortations of his teacher. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
He dressed as a townsman; he frequented the poolroom and Gatty's doggery. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
He was accompanied by his friend and fellow townsman, the Rev. John Sutton. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
She had, for instance, proposed to their talented townsman, the editor of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Then they sat down and waited silently until the last townsman had hurried by. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Grasping his staff he faced the townsman with harshness and visible irritation. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
It was a scene not only to instruct a townsman, but also to dazzle and surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
One townsman is punished for having taken part in the Mass during the late Rising. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
The townsman said: "You are a good swimmer; are you as good at other sports as at this?". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
But a merry, foul, cynical old fellow -- peasant turned townsman -- twinkled in his laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Mr. Abijah Seaverns, grandfather of our townsman, resided here with his family for many years. From Wordnik.com. [Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain] Reference
"The most interesting near-President I ever met was your old fellow-townsman, James G. Blaine.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
These the final words before the townsman-bandit had himself dropped off into soundest slumbers. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
We could get but one drover, a townsman, to assist in lifting them, and had to turn drovers ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
After my wounds had been dressed I passed the night at the quarters of my friend and fellow-townsman, Capt. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
Thomas H. Ford, my townsman, was nominated as lieutenant governor, as the representative of the Whig party. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The townsman said: "It may make some difference to know with whom you have been matched; why do you not ask?". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Portland, Maine, where the future Penciller was born in 1806, one year before his fellow-townsman Longfellow. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
"We deemed her honor and her future to be of less value than her tormentors '," says the speechifying townsman. From Wordnik.com. [Clinging To The American Edge] Reference
At the age of sixteen she was married to her fellow townsman, the rich, handsome, pleasure-loving, musical Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
What fool of a townsman ever risked himself amongst the wild Arabs of the desert without being robbed and beaten?. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
He at once searched out Velazquez, his townsman, who was then rich, and honored in the position of court painter to Philip IV. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
The Express announced it in a burst of beaming headlines, with a biographical sketch and a "cut" of its young fellow-townsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
"Can you tell me, good sir, to whom the umpires of the field have given their judgment?" said a townsman to his country neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
On his return to London, Haydon was gratified by the news that his friend and fellow-townsman, George Eastlake, had proposed and carried. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
It was here that she gained, and very justly as it would seem, the credit of saving the life of a wounded soldier, a townsman of her own. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
A battle royal raged till nightfall, at which time the fray ceased, no one scholar or townsman being killed or mortally wounded or maimed. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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