furriner
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, he air as accommodatin' a feller as I ever see, ef he air a furriner.
From A Mountain Europa by Fox, John
Why had she not indignantly denied that she was in love with the "furriner"?
From A Mountain Europa by Fox, John
For a time, as she progressed, her thoughts remained afield, wandering in wonder of what that "furriner" might be up to with the tink-tink of his hammer upon rocks.
From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward
Well, sirs, they's going' fur to hev' a greath dinner with the furriner.
From Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us by Adams, John S. (John Stowell)
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