fellow-countrywoman

Example Sentences

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I realised in a flash the profound contrast to that fellow-countrywoman of mine who had fascinated my attention on board the boat.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Roderick had declared that they were old-world people; but Rowland now needed no telling to feel that he might claim the elder lady as a fellow-countrywoman.

From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry

The latter, who was also a German, was moved even to tears when she saw me: for fifteen years she had not spoken with a fellow-countrywoman.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida