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Examples
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She has been successful in Arkansas politics by riding both sides of the fence, with her country-girl southern drawl, constantly wanting and getting it both ways by being a Democrat in Washington and running as a conservative in Arkansas.
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The spotlight only works when you grip the handle a certain way, and as I pointed it in Maggie's general direction, standing there bare-legged in the dark, the bold light glanced off a sight that, country-girl though I have become through the years, actually brought back all my city-girl upbringing uselessness in a flash of utter terror.
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The Duke was alone in his study, when one of his gentlemen acquainted him, that a country-girl, from Scotland, was desirous of speaking with his Grace.
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“A country-girl, and from Scotland!” said the Duke;
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O the uproar that was made, and the thanksgivings that were sung, about the capture of this one poor country-girl!
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Happy was the country-girl who could engage the young squire as her partner!
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It surprises even myself considering I was only a peasant with the education of a country-girl, that I spontaneously admired things of that kind.
Time Regained 2003
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"Well, I just don't know," Shirley kneeling backwards, breasts propped on the back of the seat, one big smooth country-girl hand on Slothrop's shoulder for balance.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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"Two royal officers contending against a poor country-girl," said Alete.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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Refreshments were soon set before us, and while partaking of them I gathered from our hostess that she was a Vermont country-girl, who, some three years before, had been induced by liberal pay to come South as a teacher.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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