What is "foreigners"

Usage examples of "foreigners".

He told me that, having seen me lose all my money the night before, he had come to offer me the means of retrieving my losses, if I would take an equal interest with him in a faro bank that he meant to hold at his house, and in which he would have as punters seven or eight rich foreigners who were courting his wife.

He was in command of the Austrian army when the people, growing angry at the sight of the foreigners, who had only come to put them under the Austrian yoke, rose in revolt and made them leave the town.

One day he mentioned to us that the court of the Infante of Parma was very brilliant since the arrival of Madame de France, and that there were many foreigners of both sexes in the city.

Venier advised me not to neglect such friends in a country where weariness of life was more deadly to foreigners than the plague.

This regulation is for the advantage of tradesmen, while it makes foreigners think twice before they contract any debts.

I am told that foreigners can now go about as much as they please in perfect security.

I have not seen the name of any person of my acquaintance in the list of foreigners which you gave me to read.

Some persons assert that foreigners find the first fortnight in Paris very dull, because a little time is necessary to get introduced, but I was fortunate enough to find myself established on as good a footing as I could desire within twenty-four hours, and the consequence was that I felt delighted with Paris, and certain that my stay would prove an agreeable one.

Those low villains rendered a stay in Vienna very unpleasant to foreigners, and it was a matter of the greatest difficulty to gratify the slightest natural want without running the risk of being annoyed.

London was esteemed by its inhabitants and by many foreigners as the richest and most magnificent city in Christendom.

All foreigners were struck with the English love of music and drink, of banqueting and good cheer.

It is a pleasure to turn to the simple and hearty admiration excited in the breasts of all susceptible foreigners by the English women of the time.

In the great street pageants, it was the beauty and winsomeness of the London ladies, looking on, that nearly drove the foreigners wild.

When Shakespeare was managing his theatres and writing his plays London was full of foreigners, settled in the city, who no doubt formed part of his audience, for they thought that English players had attained great perfection.

There is a sort of backhanded admission of this in the dislike which nearly all foreigners feel for our national way of life.