insular
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In fact, it is difficult now to take seriously the impassioned protests with which a number of insulars greeted the proposal.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland
Ah, how you are dull, you insulars, and how impossible for your foggy island to produce a Fouché, a Canler, a genius of police, a Columbus of the subterranean darknesses of your city.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Clean linen in England means one thing, in France another; and no French maid or waiter would put on the half-washed, half-ironed linen we aristocratic insulars wear so complacently.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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