19 Metaphors for countrymen

Our countrymen and countrywomen had been almost hopeless captives, and were now restored to freedom and their friends.

Reverses followed his first success, and he finally concluded an honorable treaty, by which his countrymen once more became the allies of Rome.

But, my countrymen, before you join in this project, pause and enquire, who are these men who thus assert their claim to rule over you?

When the Gauls were confident that their countrymen were the conquerors in the action, and beheld our men hard pressed by numbers, both those who were hemmed in by the line of circumvallation and those who had come to aid them, supported the spirits of their men by shouts and yells from every quarter.

Fellow countrymen! is such the tranquillity you desireis such the heritage you would leave to your children?

I was curious to know how he managed to procure the obedience of this aboriginal victim; and the inhuman wretch confessed, without a blushwhich must rise instead to the cheeks of my readers, when they hear of what barbarities their countrymen have been guiltythat he kept the poor creature chained up like a wild beast; and whenever he wanted her to do anything, applied a burning stick, a fire-brand snatched from the hearth, to her skin!

In some non-Christian lands to act as judge in cases in which a countryman or other person from a Christian state is a party.

It was with great pleasure that he received any intelligence of a like kind from England, whether the clergy of the Established Church or dissenting ministers, whether our own countrymen or foreigners, were the instruments of it.

Mechanical Improvements.%No American need be told that his fellow-countrymen are the most ingenious people the world has ever known.

A countryman, who supplied the apothecaries of the place, was his first master, and was paid by him for his instructions with the little money that he could procure, or that which was given him to buy something to eat after dinner.

A poet in their dialect was always a "bard;" a countryman was "the untutored swain," and a woman was a "nymph" or "the fair," just as in Dryden and Pope.

Our Royalist countrymen were not heartless, dangling courtiers, bowing at every step, and simpering at every word.

"NAH, THEN, WHERE'S YOUR REAR LIGHT?" Countryman.

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

"Know, O Caliph," said Fu-su, "that my countrymen are at once the wisest of mankind and the stupidest.

The gaunt countryman, with his battered hat and claw-hammer coat, was a prize of an extraordinary nature.

The countrymen of Simeon and Dushan became mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for their foreign masters.

Another Arab, called Sulima, was converted in the very early days of the Church, and a fellow countryman of Ctesiphon, with a name like Sulensis, became a Christian later, in the time of the deacons.

Immediately upon his arrival, he became a student of the Royal Academy, of which his countryman, West, was President, with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship.

19 Metaphors for  countrymen