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
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
Of his birthplace in Commercial Road Portsmouth is justifiably proud; but we must think of him rather as a Kentishman and a Londoner, since he never lived in Hampshire after his fourth year.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
The same is true of Kentishman, Cornishman, and Yorkshireman in England.
From African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt
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
In the following year, probably because he was dissatisfied with his share of the spoil, he assisted the Kentishmen in an attempt to seize Dover Castle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
You, Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham, With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
The royal commissioners who were sent to repress the tumult were driven from the field, and the Essex men marched upon London on one side of the river as the Kentishmen marched on the other.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
By the end of the year 1803 more than 10,000 Kentishmen had enrolled as Volunteers, and 1,040 in the Army of Reserve, exclusive of Sea Fencibles serving on gunboats.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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