Villages

Examples

• 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.
• He looked at Beldover, at Selby, at Whatmore, at Lethley Bank, the great colliery villages which depended entirely on his mines. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He worked miracles in Bethsaida and Chorazin--villages two or three miles from Capernaum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In some villages, large painted boards were fixed up: warning all persons who begged within the district, that they would be sent to jail. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Their manner of entering one another's villages has likewise its rules. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There are several quiet little villages up there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In various places their villages are still traceable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The few Mahometan families, thinly scattered about the villages in the interior, are afraid to taste meat of any kind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At first they lived in open villages outside the ruins of the cities they had destroyed, but there stood the model for them, a continual suggestion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fifty-four cities and towns, besides an incredible number of villages, were either destroyed or greatly damaged. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I have already mentioned a tax upon bread, which, so far as it is consumed in farm houses and country villages, is there levied in the same manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This frightened Oliver very much, and made him glad to get out of those villages with all possible expedition. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Out-of-the-way villages there, they tell me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Damn the day they named tractor factories and villages and co-operatives for you so that you are a symbol that I cannot touch. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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