Lexicographical Neighbors of Compatriotic
Literary usage of Compatriotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"It will be hardly fair to the English girl, but, if I stand in the gap between
them, I shall summon up no small quantity of dormant compatriotic feeling. ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"It finds a compatriotic echo in this familiar story : " India, my boy," said an
Irish officer to a friend on his arrival at Calcutta, "is the finest climate ..."
3. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"... and she is seen last at Rome (where indeed she dies of the fever) the wonder
of the international and the opprobrium of the compatriotic society. ..."
4. The American Novel by Carl Van Doren (1921)
"... now that he felt himself securely European and no longer felt the responsibility
which once had brought compatriotic blushes to his cheek. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"... happening as he does, by sonic peculiar texture of his nationality, to rub
against the grain of our preconceptions, whether compatriotic or personal. ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... or gallant to the comfortable frau, and winning both simple hearts with eloquent
praises of their dear Captain Sutler, who, to their compatriotic pride, ..."
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