townsman
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He was watching television when he spotted his fellow townsman, Mr. Johnson.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2021
A boy and his new friend hatch a plan to save a community of mischievous cavern-dwellers from the villainous townsman who plans to exterminate them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2019
A townsman with a plane jetted to Memphis to buy the team proper cleats.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2018
A cad, according to one definition, may have been an academy student, or townsman originally - Etonian slang for someone who doesn't quite cut it as a gentleman.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2013
To Ged, however, it seemed a city, and not knowing where to go he asked the first townsman of Thwil he met where he would find the Warder of the School on Roke.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
It was claimed that townsmen wanted to spare Alice Bailey from testifying in court.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021
Hayes, like his L.A. townsmen, was a Southern sympathizer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
Like other English monarchs, Elizabeth shared power with Parliament, a legislature that included the House of Lords for nobles and bishops and the House of Commons for members chosen by townsmen and rural landowners.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017
These townsmen enjoyed a degree of freedom that was unknown to their country cousins.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
