Briton

(noun.) an inhabitant of southern Britain prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

(adj.) characteristic of or associated with the Britons; 'the Briton inhabitants of England' .

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• I am a Briton, said Miss Pross, I am desperate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He was a true Briton, and hoped there were many like him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I suppose no Briton's afraid of any d---- Frenchman, hey? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The boy virtually replied that as he had the honour to be a Briton who never never never, there was nothing to prevent his going in for it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I only said I should like to go--what Briton would not? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He's a Briton. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Once pointing, always pointing--like any Roman, or even Briton, with a single idea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mr. Moore, indeed, was but half a Briton, and scarcely that. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It is from the well of St Dunstan, said he, in which, betwixt sun and sun, he baptized five hundred heathen Danes and Britons--blessed be his name! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The respect in those happy days of 1817-18 was very great for the wealth and honour of Britons. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In a practical point of view, they listlessly abandoned the matter, as being the business of some other Britons unknown, somewhere, or nowhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A few bilious Britons there were who would not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection was purely theoretical. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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