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Example sentences for "native country"

  • Several gentlemen of the neighbourhood came to my inn, to compliment me on my writings, and I confess having been flattered to find that my literary reputation had extended to this distance from my native country.

  • Still I had a most passionate desire to revisit my native country.

  • These are earnests of what I must expect to meet in my native country; but our Lord will be our refuge in every storm.

  • Perhaps, about spring, I may embark for my native country.

  • In about a twelvemonth, probably, I shall return again to my native country.

  • And supposing the worst, as I must necessarily return to take priests' orders, it would then be left to my choice whether I would fix in my native country or go abroad any more.

  • Why am I not permitted to hasten to my native country, and take part with that gallant youth!

  • The bark, in which I worked my passage to Europe, reached England in safety; and I was once more at large in my native country.

  • Under no pretence,' said he, 'would I kindle civil war in my native country.

  • Only lack of money to return to my native country," said he.

  • Then Jason made answer, "Surely, lady, I shall not cease to think of thee if only I return safe to my native country.

  • And when the city of Priam had perished, I went back to my native country, and there for the space of one month I tarried with my wife, and afterwards I sailed with nine ships to Egypt.

  • And he answered, "Every day in my native country will I remember thee, for indeed, fair maiden, thou didst save my life.

  • Only do you send me home to my native country.

  • I was twenty years old before his tenderness would expose me to the fatigue of travel, in which time I had been instructed, by successive masters, in all the literature of my native country.

  • Here I joined myself to a caravan, and reentered my native country.

  • Na kwa oushing (to the point of land) Ain dah nuk e aum baun (in my native country) In de e zha (I go.

  • With her I returned to my native country at Chegoimegon on Lake Superior.

  • I have been accustomed to meet with nothing but insults and indignities from my native country; but if it continue so, 'ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis.

  • This conversation of the Moorish girl extinguished every ray of hope, that I should ever regain my native country.

  • After what I have related of these barbarians, was it possible that I should not be anxious to be again restored to my native country!

  • This last trial confirmed my assurance that I had wisely chosen for my own happiness; nor did I once, in a year's visit, entertain a wish of settling in my native country.

  • My condition seemed as destitute of hope, as it was devoid of pleasure: I was separated for an indefinite, which appeared an infinite term from my native country; and I had lost all connexion with my catholic friends.

  • I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the rambles of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.

  • I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva; but my father thought it necessary, for the completion of my education, that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bending down; good degree; hand against; male heir; military dictatorship; native city; native country; native land; native life; native names; native officers; native place; native state; native tongue; native troops; native village; native well; native white; native woman; preach the; said another; serve three; shall take; steam vessel; variable number; your mother