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 Kentishman followed, searching out each footprint in the snow.
From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John
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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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 Blore, George Henry
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
But the royal army itself was already calling for justice on the traitors who misled the king; and at the approach of the Kentishmen it broke up in disorder.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by Green, John Richard
"So that it was found that the Captain and Kentishmen at their being in the city did no hurt to any stranger."
From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph
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 Rose, John Holland
But the oppression of Ode made the Kentishmen glad to seek any help against him.
From William the Conqueror by Freeman, Edward Augustus
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