The rural exodus.

They were unloading harvests from entire provinces, unending herds of oxen and horses, tons upon tons of steel, prepared for deadly work, and human crowds lacking only a tail of women and children to be like the great martial exoduses of history.

People in Germany hardly realised that, through the annual exodus of about 100,000 German-speaking Jews to the United States and England, the empire of the English language and the economic system that goes with it is being enlarged, while a German asset is being proportionately depreciated....

Another forced exodus would help to drive certain memories from his mind and silence the cries that were now beginning to ring in his ears.

On a Saturday evening that was already pointed with stars at the six-o'clock closing of Hoffheimer's Fourteenth Street Emporium, Miss Slayback, whose blondness under fatigue could become ashy, emerged from the Bargain-Basement almost the first of its frantic exodus, taking the place of her weekly appointment in the entrance of the Popular Drug Store adjoining, her gaze, something even frantic in it, sifting the passing crowd.

I drew back the curtains from the bed, smoothed the pillows, and the disorder occasioned by our hasty exodus, and went down.

Though there was an immense exodus of Protestants from France, Louis did not succeed in his design of extirpating heresy from his lands.

The impending exodus from Whitehall is another factor in the situation.

America has been greatly benefited by this almost incessant exodus; for the Norse peasants have, without an exception, made splendid citizens, the best, in fact, that have come to us from Europe.

With the early days of September 1914, there was a lamentable exodus from all this district.

Spoke against the proposed negro exodus from the South. 1881 Appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.

Flight upon any terms then became the order of the day, and if the place had been suddenly plague-smitten the panicky exodus could scarcely have been more headlong.

We started through Bassano, which the Austrians had begun to shell the day before with long range guns, starting a trickling, pitiful exodus of terrified civilians.

The prevailing exodus, leaving less than a dozen white men behind, testifies the political feelings of the people.

A less impulsive man than Solon Denney might have found cause for misgiving in this circumstance of Potts's prompt exodus.

The result was a rapid exodus of nearly the whole governing body to England.

But signs of a spiritual and moral exodus are everywhere manifest.

Here was a pan full of meat fried to a crisp, from the neglect of the cook to remove it before his sudden exodus.

CHAPTER XIV The tremendous exodus continued; regiment after regiment packed knapsacks, struck tents, loaded their waggons and marched back through the mud t

" "I do not believe," said Miss Delany, "that the Southern white people themselves desire any wholesale exodus of the colored from their labor fields.

It symbolized that disastrous exodus from the rural districts towards the towns, an exodus which year by year increased, unhinging the nation and reducing it to anaemia.

In moving from Ravenna to Pisa, his caravan consisted of seven servants, five carriages, nine horses, a monkey, a bulldog, and a mastiff, two cats, three peafowl, a harem of hens, books, saddles, and firearms, with a chaos of furniture nor was the exodus less fantastical; for in addition to all his own clanjamphry, he had Mr Hunt's miscellaneous assemblage of chattels and chattery and little ones.