See also: British connection (def. 2)
- 1822  British feeling they consider as avowedly opposed to those laws that protect the French Noblesse, in all those rights they continue to exercise.
- 1863  Such inquiries would excite no other feelings but those of admiration at the characteristic enterprise which gives birth to them, if it were not the unscrupulous action to which they point, alike neglectful of British feeling and opposed to the aspirations of the majority of the people of North America.