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- noun Plural form of
Zetlander .
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Examples
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When we arrived at the summit we could hardly stand against the wind, but it was almost more difficult to muster courage to look down that dizzy depth over which the Zetlanders suspend themselves with ropes, in quest of the eggs of the sea-fowl.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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The Zetlanders, I was told by a Scotch clergyman, who had lived among them forty years, are naturally shrewd and quick of apprehension; "as to their morals," he added, "if ye stay among them any time ye'll be able to judge for yourself."
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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If it be the want of a proper and genial warmth, which prevents the due growth of the domestic animals, it is a want to which the Zetlanders are not subject.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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