Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young American girl, as her name indicates; she had been born in New York, the capital city of America. Her family, indeed, had some claim to respectability; her father, and also a distant cousin, had visited England in youth. But Mr. Jackson, although admired to excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon her with horror not unmingled with amazement. They did not understand her vagaries; they...
...Hour says some people have queer ideas of what constitutes holiday recreation. A Harvard student from Yucatan went to spend his vacation in his native equatorial latitudes, and passed the entire time in fighting in one of the periodical revolutions indulged in by his countrymen. Refreshed and invigorated by this delightful sport, he returned in due course to pursue his peaceful studies at Cambridge...