Emigrant
['emɪgr(ə)nt] or ['ɛmɪɡrənt]
Definition
(v. i.) Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.
(v. i.) Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.
(n.) One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
Typist: Richard
Examples
- You are a cursed emigrant, cried a farrier, making at him in a furious manner through the press, hammer in hand; and you are a cursed aristocrat! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Is this the emigrant Evremonde? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Not an emigrant, he hoped, within the sense and spirit of the law. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He stopped in the act of swinging himself out of his saddle, and, resuming it as his safest place, said: Emigrant, my friends! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Rise and dress yourself, emigrant. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Emigrant, said the functionary, I am going to send you on to Paris, under an escort. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Let the worst come, I will take my axe and an emigrant's berth, and go out with Louis to the West; he and I have settled it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A man with a bloated face opened the strong wicket, to whom Defarge presented The Emigrant Evremonde. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Was he not an emigrant then? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The only response is, that I have acted for an emigrant, and where is that emigrant? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The little quiet Yorkshire girl is a lonely emigrant in some region of the southern hemisphere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- An ominous crowd gathered to see him dismount of the posting-yard, and many voices called out loudly, Down with the emigrant! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Emigrants have no rights, Evremonde, was the stolid reply. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is called Death Valley because a party of emigrants perished there in 1849. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Crowds of emigrants inundated the west of Europe; and our island had become the refuge of thousands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Basque newspapers have been published in the Argentine and in the United States to supply groups of prosperous emigrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Subscriptions were made for the emigrants, and merchants bankrupt by the failure of trade. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When this was done, my aunt and Agnes rose, and parted from the emigrants. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- THE EMIGRANTS One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The _Mayflower_ was only one of the pioneer vessels of a stream of emigrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Truly, a decree for selling the property of emigrants. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- France could not let him go to hearten the emigrants, could not keep him harmless at home; his existence threatened her. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Sasha