Village

Examples

• His right extended to the back-water up the ravine opening into the Cumberland south of the village. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Ezra Jennings stopped at the road which led to the village. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We shall do better, said he, to leave them two of our attendants and two horses to convey them back to the next village. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• No officer is ever to enter into my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• On a fine Sunday evening, in the month of August, John Edmunds set foot in the village he had left with shame and disgrace seventeen years before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My father was the mayor of the village and an honorable man. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I saw both of them shot and my father said, '_Viva la Republica_,' when they shot him standing against the wall of the slaughterhouse of our village. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Between St. Augustin Tlalpam and the city lie the hacienda of San Antonio and the village of Churubusco, and south-west of them is Contreras. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On my way to the village I prepared myself for the possibility of meeting Sir Percival. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• One incident tells how he was found one day in the village square copying laboriously the signs of the stores. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She talked on, planning village kindnesses, unheeding the silence of her husband and the monosyllabic answers of Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When, as in Macedonia, populations are mixed in a patchwork of villages and districts, the cantonal system is imperatively needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• 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.
• There are the children from evacuated villages. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were three villages; Chernex, Fontanivent, and the other I forget. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• 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.
• Whole villages were carried away. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There are several villages of them, but they have increased in numbers but little in many years since they are always warring among themselves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But the Black Death fell on the villages almost as fiercely as on the towns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This ruin was, however, by no means universal; there is at least as much mention of crowded cities and villages and busy cultivations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The city walls were in ruins, and the towns and villages were deserted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These lake villages had considerable defensive value, and there was a sanitary advantage in living over flowing water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Checker: Olivier