Alternative terms

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Lexicographical Neighbors of

the Indies
the Irish
the Irish Famine
the Iron Duke
the Jersey Lillie
the King of Swing
the Kingmaker
the Lady with the Lamp
the Little Corporal
the Nazarene
the Say Hey Kid
the Shiites
the Solent
the Street
the Sunnites
the Swiss (current term)
the Taal
the Tempter
the Three Weird Sisters
the Trapezium
the Triangle
the Venerable Bede
the Weird Sisters
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
the ball is in someone's court
the bard
the bee's knees
the bends
the big six
the big sleep

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"At the commencement of the connexion, however, in the course of the fifteenth century, the Swiss did not serve the purposes of France exclusively, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Of the Swiss population of nearly 3800000, about 2600000 speak German, ... While the Swiss were patriotically united in their determination to resist ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The Swiss Teutons belong to the Alemannic stock and still speak a difficult Alemannic dialect usually called Swiss German or simply Swiss. ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"The Swiss replied to his attempts to persuade them, "With arms should he try ... Whilst thus the Swiss, by this show of unanimous bravery, wiped out the ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"As the Swiss races differ in origin and language, so also do their temperamental characteristics vary. The French Swiss is active and vivacious; ..."

6. Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by Albert Venn Dicey (1902)
"NOTE VIII SWISS FEDERALISM l THE Swiss Federal Constitution may appear to a superficial observer to be a copy in miniature of the Constitution of the United ..."

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