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, Abe Shivers was a-workin' fer Tom—you've heerd tell o' Abe—an' the furriner wasn't more'n half gone afore Tom seed that Abe was up to some of his devilMINT.
From Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories by Fox, John
As I was bendin' a hook one day A furriner* strawled along the kay.
From Cornish Catches and Other Verses by Moore, Bernard
This hyar furriner 'lows ter ride over ter Cyrus Spradlin's dwellin' house.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
An' then, one noonday, a sailor knocks at the door; an' goin' out, I seed he was a furriner, wi' great white teeth showin' dro' his beard.
From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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