fellow-countrywoman
Example Sentences
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It was impossible to refuse the request of a fellow-countrywoman dying in a strange land.
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
“A fellow-countrywoman in distress,” smiled Dalroy, speaking in German.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis
He did not believe that his old fellow-countrywoman would, to use a vulgar English colloquialism, “give him away.”
From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
But our knowledge of it enabled us to tell a fellow-countrywoman whom we presently met in the museum of the University, how she could best, or worst, get to that city.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
Her paternal Huguenot ancestor was a surgeon, who was married to a fellow-countrywoman and co-religionist of the name of Pierre.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
