James's third donation is perhaps a less sweeping affair and of more concern to his compatriots than to any one who might conceivably translate him into an alien tongue, or even to those who publish his writings in England.
He was not without sympathy for his compatriotsas is amply attested by Mr. and Mrs. B.
He would gladly have strengthened his ties with the city to which he was so proud to belong, but, as we shall see, his compatriots would have none of him.
Santa Cruz warned his compatriots that the heretics "had teeth, and could use them.
The Court was infested with traitors who would first carry out their vengeance against their rebelliouscompatriots and then cunningly lay the blame on those under whose protection they were.
Both second-rate artists, they would have passed almost unnoticed in a more favoured century; as it was, in the absence of contemporary rivals, their compatriots accepted their accidental superiority as a proof of absolute merit.
These were as ardent in admiration of their Southern compatriots as the Northern boys were for the insulted Union.
The odious partisanship and ready calumny of her own compatriots gave a strange bent to her mind in dealing with another problem.
They decided that on the appointed day, they would summon them to their meeting and that they, seeing their compatriots armed for the common cause, would no longer hesitate to throw in their lot with them.
His fleet was commanded by Cayero, a daring Portuguese adventurer who had 1,000 of his compatriots under him.
The number of his compatriots had increased to eight thousand.
Nor do they and their compatriots throughout the country welcome the inference that they are Spanish; they are Argentine.
And then, as our said compatriots are nothing if not clique-ish, coteries will abound wherever these may be gathered together.
His compatriots were asking why Mr. Wilson's Fourteen Points should be waived for France in the Sarre Basin, for Britain in Ireland and Egypt, but not for them.
Athanasius might reply that his wretchedcompatriots were impelled by fear to give such answers.
I put it to my Unionist compatriots that the ideal is to aim at a diversity of culture, and the greatest freedom, richness and variety of thought.
I would plead with my Ulster compatriots not to gaze too long or too credulously into that distorting mirror held up to them, nor be tempted to take individual action as representative of the mass.
The pope made sure of the success of these new projects by electing four Spanish cardinals, who brought up the number of his compatriots in the Sacred College to twenty-two, thus assuring him a constant and certain majority.
German Jews are generally smaller and more slender in stature than the European nations among whom they have lived for centuries; and the age of puberty arrives earlier with them than with their compatriots of another race.
Undine herself, hampered by her lack of languages, was soon drawn into the group of compatriots who struck the social pitch of their hotel.
She dared not carry out her threat of joining her compatriots at the Nouveau Luxe: she had too clear a memory of the results of her former revolt.
What she wanted for the moment was to linger on in Paris, prolonging her flirtation with Chelles, and profiting by it to detach herself from her compatriots and enter doors closed to their approach.
This inopportune memory did not trouble her: she was almost grateful to Raymond for giving her the touch of superiority her compatriots clearly felt in her.
After January the drifting hordes of her compatriots had scattered to the four quarters of the globe, leaving Paris to resume, under its low grey sky, its compacter winter personality.
One is sometimes inclined to deny your compatriots actual beauty--to charge them with producing the effect without having the features; but in this case--you say you know the lady?
Hitherto she had assumed that Paris existed for the stranger, that its native life was merely an obscure foundation for the dazzling superstructure of hotels and restaurants in which her compatriots disported themselves.
In the long, cheerless evenings men liked to associate with compatriotswho spoke the same tongue, and had the same interests and customs.
His fine taste taught him to relish the beauties of Virgil and Cicero, and his ardent praises of them inspired his compatriots with a desire for classical knowledge.
It was indeed less felt by the compatriots of Homer, already familiar with that legendary cyclus of heroic song, than it is by the readers of Ariosto, who are not in general very well acquainted with the poem of his precursor.
Thus, for instance, a State whose laws compel persons who intend marriage to conclude it in presence of its registrars, need not allow a foreign envoy to legalise a marriage of compatriots before its registration by the official registrar.
It further includes permission to all the compatriots of the envoy, even if they do not belong to his retinue, to take part in the service.
Never put up at any hotels but those kept by Germans, and amongst these choose only the ones kept by compatriots who you know have preserved all their attachment for the Fatherland.
The good Samaritan, Richard Hall, had determined to travel often with us, on our regular road, in order to extend an untiringly helping hand to those of our military compatriots upon whom the present hostilities had brought misfortune.
To his compatriots he set forth that France was the best protector, whether they desired partial or complete independence.
There were occasional outbursts of enthusiasm by Italian Jacobins, and in the confusion of warfare they wreaked a sneaking vengeance on their conservative compatriots by extortion and terrorizing.
Should the accursed Americans open fire they would blow their compatriots and representatives of Great Britain, France, Holland, and Japan to atoms.
Before he could recover from his astonishment the owner of the toes slid feet foremost through the port, and to the surprise of all who recognised him, the wily Mukyima gravely saluted his compatriots and the two Englishmen.
In vain did Rousseau and many other champions of popular liberty protest against this bartering away of insular freedom: in vain did Paoli rouse his compatriots to another and more unequal struggle, and seek to hold the mountainous interior.
He exhorts his compatriots to favour the democratic cause, which promises a speedy deliverance from official abuses.
Here I found othercompatriots lounging about, some in Turkish military uniform, some in threadbare clothes.
I do not remember him for his dancing, because he was no clumsier of foot than his compatriots in the chorus rank and file; or for his singing, since I could not pick his voice out from the combined voices of the others.
Presently, though, something happened that made us forget these small dark compatriotsof ours.
Balboa and his compatriots boarded their ships and headed south, bound to sail to that far distant land of which the natives had told him.
These had returned to their fellows, angry and indignant at their captivity, and had raised their compatriots to a revengeful spirit against these white interlopers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compatriots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
