Towns

Examples

• I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I don't think Fifth-of-Novembers ought to be kept up by night except in towns. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At the various towns there were corresponding crowds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There you will find great towns, rich provinces, honour, glory, riches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I knew that if the same excitement was attained at the various small towns along the road, and especially at Port Huron, the sale of papers would be great. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In small towns and country villages, on account of the narrowness of the market, trade cannot always be extended as stock extends. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But I wonder what happens in the other towns. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They had no use whatever for the towns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The small garrisons were drawn from the various towns and fortresses, and went to swell the main army. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We passed through several towns, and in one, a very large one, the coach stopped; the horses were taken out, and the passengers alighted to dine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the larger manufacturing towns the same tragedy was acted on a smaller, yet more disastrous scale. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I will seek the towns--Rome, the capital of the world, the crown of man's achievements. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If he is not Tom Gradgrind's colleague before long, I believe we shall at least hear of him in connexion with one of our neighbouring towns. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They were strangers--emissaries from the large towns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Though there are in Europe indeed, a few towns which, in same respects, deserve the name of free ports, there is no country which does so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That evening he drove the reaper to the court-house square and explained its working to the towns people. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• One of those causes appeared to be the preference given, by the institutions of Mr. Colbert, to the industry of the towns above that of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This change may be regarded as the necessary, though very late consequence of the extraordinary encouragement given to the industry of the towns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Western Union Company followed the stage-coach across the plains to California, and soon the frontier towns were linked to the large cities of the East. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We were ten weeks in our journey, and I was shown in eighteen large towns, besides many villages, and private families. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Even the land about Chat Moss was bought up and improved, and all along the line what had been waste stretches began to blossom into towns and villages. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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