Read full poem →shall keep company with none but the archers of
Finsbury ! or the citizens that come a ducking to Is-
lington ponds! A fine jest i’faith ! slid, a gentleman
Dictionary Entry
A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties.
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Common Phrases
. citizenscitizens americancitizens fellowcitizens senior
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Poetry examples for “citizens”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →By the delicious law of that ellipse
Wherein all citizens of ether move,
With hastening pace to come
Read full poem →_ 26. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken cap-
tive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to
Read full poem →equity. commenced or ; rosecuted against one of the United
States by citizens of anoti.er State, or by citizens or subjects
of any foreign state.
Read full poem →habitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and
citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged except
for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of
Read full poem →they were supposed to be considering as states-
men. Deputations of foreign born citizens were
brought to Washington in an effort to color and
Read full poem →where a dozen staunch and leal
citizens did graze at pause
then fired by hypercivic zeal
Read full poem →That?—oh, nothing! The noble and free citizens of Epidaphne
being, as they declare, well satisfied of the faith, valor,
Read full poem →Rabble, indeed!—why these are the noble and free citizens of
Epidaphne! Beasts, did you say?—take care that you are not
Read full poem →For pocketing the interest on public funds?
And when I fought our leading citizens
For making the poor the pack-horses of the taxes?