A compatriot (Latincompatriota, "fellow countryman") is someone from the same country. For example: "The Irish writer James Joyce was a compatriot of Samuel Beckett". That is, Joyce and Beckett were both Irish.
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derisive or irreverential gestures, or who did not pay suitable honor to
should cheat the tyrant of his prey, the same spies were to keep watch at
persons who should dare to depart this life without previously receiving
ordained, should be confiscated, and their bodies dragged to the public
which, for its peculiarity, deserves brief mention. A poor Anabaptist,
condemned to death. He had made his escape, closely pursued by an
and the ice.html">ice had become unsound. It trembled and cracked beneath his
fortunate. The ice gave way beneath him, and he sank into the lake,
fugitive whom he had been hunting. Dirk Willemzoon, for so was the
nature, returned, crossed the quaking and dangerous ice, at the peril of
death. Unfortunately for human nature, it cannot be added that the
officer was desirous, it is true, of avoiding the responsibility of
sternly reminded him to remember his oath. He accordingly arrested the
the most lingering tortures.
Almost at the same time four clergymen, the eldest seventy years of age,
were of blameless lives, having committed no crime save that of having
was determined that they should be executed with solemnity. They were
profession, it was necessary before execution that their personal
gorgeous robes of high mass, they were brought before the Bishop of Bois
each of their heads. He then scraped their crowns and the tips of their
the least injury. The mystic oil of consecration was thus supposed to be
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