Englishman

Examples

• Justinian is not a Greek, but an Englishman. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Englishman sprang quickly after him just in time to see the hind quarters of some huge animal about to disappear through the window of the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The vacuum pan was the invention of Howard, an Englishman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Who was this Englishman that he should come between us? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After remaining a short time he went out, and a minute or two afterwards a second stranger--also an Englishman--came in. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And both the Olympian and Englishman incarnate in a Greek, said the Demarch graciously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In many of his opinions he was an Englishman of the old school, and he hated a foreigner simply and solely because he was a foreigner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• About 1797, some Englishman began to make water-proof varnish from it, and to take out patents for the same. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We will behold, and minutely examine, a scene so interesting to every Englishman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Sir, Mr. Wopsle began to reply, as an Englishman myself, I-- Come! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It seemed to me to be obvious that this Greek girl had been carried off by the young Englishman named Harold Latimer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Edward Muybridge, an Englishman, by way of experiment, placed numerous cameras at regular intervals about the track, which, by electrical contact, were snapped by the horse in passing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We have already mentioned the career of the Englishman Wycliffe (_c. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Englishman was in a strange, inflammable state, the German was excited. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This strange man wrote English--evidently he was an Englishman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• One or other of those shady Englishmen to whom I have alluded, would get them the copy you have described. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Well, I guess, Mr Roylands, half a dozen Englishmen are worth fifty Greeks! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Are all Englishmen like that? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Again he speaks, as Englishmen to-da y very well might, of the neglect, disdain even, of the country for great intellectual men, especially in the realm o f exact science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You should be Englishmen, said he; and yet, sacred Heaven! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Centuries hence, we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devil's code of honour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It told how two Englishmen who had been traveling with a woman had met with a tragic end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Nine Englishmen already on the island,—bah! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We Englishmen are Very Proud of our Constitution, Sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They did not realize that Chinamen and Indians could carry on the work of research as ably as Frenchmen or Englishmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We Englishmen are narrower in our ideas, observed Maurice dryly; we look on England as our home. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In respect to this all-absorbing national topic, I happen to be one of the most un-English Englishmen living. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It spoils all one's independence and one's consequence, to ask Englishmen for money. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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