"I've never been convinced you're just a poor countryman's daughter, Alice."
The officials attribute this in part to class differences, with the earlier Nicaraguans, who tended to be wealthier, looking down on their poorer countrymen arriving now.
How can I be otherwise," said she, speaking French with a most adorable lisp, "when one of my poor countrymen is a prisoner in your hands?
His face was always, and undauntedly, set against every proposition that savored of severity to the tories, whom he used to call his "poor deluded countrymen".
An essentially self-made man, having experienced the miseries of poverty in early life, Jejeebhoy developed great sympathy for his poorer countrymen.
They gave us the land depicts the results of the government's land reform program for four poor countrymen who have been given a parcel of land.
For, dod, yon call ant was cruel to many of my poor countrymen in the aftermath of Culloden.
While himself an ardent Protestant, he persistently sought to provide for his poorer countrymen the religious instruction of their choice.
He was always a good friend to his poorer countrymen, for whom he established a practically free dispensary.
He is often considered a great philanthropist for his efforts working with his poor countrymen.