Inhabitants

Examples

• Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Caliphronas turned pale, for he knew that Justinian was absolute ruler of Melnos, while he was thoroughly well hated by the inhabitants, one and all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But the revenue of all the inhabitants of the country is necessarily in proportion to the value of the annual produce of their land and labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You will find all the inhabitants extremely courteous and friendly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He shewed how England had become powerful, and its inhabitants valiant and wise, by means of the freedom they enjoyed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They do not produce enough to maintain their inhabitants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You are such a perfect stranger in the house, that you are puzzled by my familiar references to the worthy inhabitants. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Dutch settlement here formed gradually grew into a town called New Amsterdam, which in 1648 had 1,000 inhabitants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Why, it was no larger than an American village of four thousand inhabitants, and no larger than an ordinary Syrian city of thirty thousand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By March, 1881, there were in the United States only nine cities of more than ten thousand inhabitants, and only one of more than fifteen thousand, without a telephone exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In what way could it possibly be the interest of the inhabitants of that dwelling to serve me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Through the greater part of Europe, the number of inhabitants is not supposed to double in less than five hundred years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The inhabitants of many different parts of Great Britain have not capital sufficient to improve and cultivate all their lands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hence the inhabitants of one country, generally the smaller one, often yield to the inhabitants of another and generally the larger country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In trade and industry, it is much inferior to Glasgow, of which the inhabitants are chiefly maintained by the employment of capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I don't like to have the life knocked out of former inhabitants of this house, in the gloomy dark, and not know who did it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I had had no intercourse with the world at that time, and I imitated none of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Over the house itself, he exercised the same imaginary power as over its inhabitants and their affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Frezier, who visited Peru in 1713, represents Lima as containing between twenty-five and twenty-eight thousand inhabitants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There was much pleasant intercourse between the inhabitants and the officers of the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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