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Switzer   Listen
noun
Switzer  n.  A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.






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"Switzer" Quotes from Famous Books



... birth a sturdy Switzer, and thought little of these Swabian Alps; and he climbed after his guide through the most rugged passages of Eberhard's shortest and most perpendicular cut without a moment's hesitation, and with agility worthy of a chamois. ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge

... neighbors to receive from Rome an abundant recompense for their services. But the greater their difficulty to find subsistence in their native land, the stronger seemed their attachment; like that of the Switzer to his barren rocks, or of the mariner to the frail and hazardous home that bears him afloat on the ocean. This race of patriots was divided into two separate peoples. Those to the north of the Rhine were the Frisons; those to the west of the Meuse, ...
— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... the subject should refuse to act contrary to his faith. From the Middle Ages he took the doctrine of the identity of spiritual and civil authority, but he also postulated the sovereignty of the people, as was natural in a free-born Switzer. In fact, his sympathies were republican through ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith



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