1 The next man he met was a countryman carrying a fine white goose.
2 The countryman then began to tell his tale, and said he was going to take the goose to a christening.
3 Meantime the countryman began to look grave, and shook his head.
4 'Full threepence,' replied the countryman.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MISER IN THE BUSH 5 said the countryman; but the judge told him that was not likely, and cut the matter short by ordering him off to the gallows.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MISER IN THE BUSH 6 But the countryman seized his fiddle, and struck up a tune, and at the first note judge, clerks, and jailer were in motion; all began capering, and no one could hold the miser.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MISER IN THE BUSH 7 Then the countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MISER IN THE BUSH 8 No, he is a countryman of yours, if a Corsican is a countryman of any one's.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 9 de Villefort; 'they fancy that their countryman is still emperor.'
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 10 But then, I'm a countryman born and I don't like any town.
11 In a countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply.
12 The Bohemian family, grandmother told me as we drove along, had bought the homestead of a fellow countryman, Peter Krajiek, and had paid him more than it was worth.
13 Satisfied with her examination, she left him, with a slight expression of pleasure, and proceeded to practise the same trying experiment on her delinquent countryman.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 14 At present, if we indeed journey to Ashby-de-la-Zouche, we do so with my noble neighbour and countryman Athelstane of Coningsburgh, and with such a train as would set outlaws and feudal enemies at defiance.
15 Nathan Ben Israel received his suffering countryman with that kindness which the law prescribed, and which the Jews practised to each other.