Kentishman
Americannoun
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Kentishmen
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Origin of Kentishman
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Shy, shaggy Kentishman Heath immediately captured the Tory matrons' vote.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some Tory leaders did not go to Eton, but none went to a grammar school on a scholarship, as did the burly Kentishman with the rumbling laugh and the steely blue eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Master Caxton was a gray-eyed, thin-cheeked, neatly-made Kentishman, who had lived long abroad, and was always ready to make an Englishman welcome.
From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The vessel herself had been built by a Kentishman, living at Flushing, the previous year.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
The Kentishman followed, searching out each footprint in the snow.
From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena
With two women suffering before his eyes, Novelist Hyams wrote to a local newspaper asking if any other Kentishmen were hearing the hum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bishop Odo's tyranny forced the Kentishmen to seek aid from Count Eustace of Boulogne; while the Welsh princes supported a similar rising against Norman oppression in the west.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
Olaf is there, and the Kentishmen have risen.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
You, Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham, With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
In the meane time the quéene and hir sonne Eustace, with the helpe of their freends, as the Kentishmen, the Londoners and other had assembled a great armie, and appointed the William de Ypresse.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne by Raphael Holinshed
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