Briton

Examples

• I am a Briton, said Miss Pross, I am desperate. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He was a true Briton, and hoped there were many like him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I suppose no Briton's afraid of any d---- Frenchman, hey? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The boy virtually replied that as he had the honour to be a Briton who never never never, there was nothing to prevent his going in for it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I only said I should like to go--what Briton would not? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He's a Briton. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Once pointing, always pointing--like any Roman, or even Briton, with a single idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Moore, indeed, was but half a Briton, and scarcely that. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is from the well of St Dunstan, said he, in which, betwixt sun and sun, he baptized five hundred heathen Danes and Britons--blessed be his name! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The respect in those happy days of 1817-18 was very great for the wealth and honour of Britons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In a practical point of view, they listlessly abandoned the matter, as being the business of some other Britons unknown, somewhere, or nowhere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A few bilious Britons there were who would not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection was purely theoretical. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Hamilton