Hamlets
[hæmlɪts]
Examples
- Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But in upland hamlets the transition from a-bed to abroad is surprisingly swift and easy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They were the bonfires of other parishes and hamlets that were engaged in the same sort of commemoration. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We voyaged by steamer down the Lago di Lecco, through wild mountain scenery, and by hamlets and villas, and disembarked at the town of Lecco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The people in at least one of these hamlets lived underground for protection against the Indians. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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