79 Metaphors for village

The days of his wanderings must soon be over, but before he left India he wanted to see the missionary in actual contact with the immemorial paganism of the villages, for he had discovered that the village is India.

[Illustration: Woman's knife for cutting meat] CHAPTER XXV PENZHINAPOSTS FOR ELEVATED ROADFIFTY-THREE BELOW ZEROTALKED OUTASTRONOMICAL LECTURESEATING PLANETSTHE HOUSE OF A PRIEST The village of Penzhina is a little collection of log houses, flat-topped yurts, and four-legged balagáns, situated on the north bank of the river which bears its name, about half-way between the Okhotsk Sea and Anadyrsk.

But the beautiful village of Vernondale is less than an hour from New York; no mosquitoes, no malaria; boating, bathing, and fishing.

The small village on the distant shore is Elsenberg.

" "And whenever you cross the stream," said Brigitta, "you are, as it were, in another world, all is so dreary and withered; but every traveler declares that our village is the fairest in the country, far or near.

During slavery these villages were oftentimes a scene of bickering, revelry, and contention.

The village was Vers, and the castle, which was built by the English, is called the Château de Béars.

Those picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague, of squalid penury, sottish profligacy, dull discontent too stale for words.

The Deserted Village was in point of fact an imaginative idyll,the supreme idyll of English poetry; but Goldsmith insisted that it was a realistic record of actual conditions.

As if by the touch of a magic wand, what was five years ago a little Indian village is now a large and flourishing city, which is increasing at a prodigious rate.

" "They tell me," said Eve, "that all American villages are the towns in miniature; children dressed in hoops and wigs.

Though a village is the scene of meeting between my two principal characters, and gives occasion to other characters and relations in general, yet

Like other places on the bank of a stream, the village was once the centre of a brisk cloth trade.

He knew that the French villages, the only settlements in the land, were the seats of the British power, the head-quarters whence their commanders stirred up, armed, and guided the hostile Indians.

We passed Faidò and Giornico, near which last village are the remains of an old castle, supposed to have been built by the ancient Gauls, and stopped for the night at Cresciano, which being entirely Italian, we had an opportunity to put in practice the few words we had picked up from Pietro.

Their villages are not concrete masses of picturesque filth, as are those of the Moslems, but are loosely scattered among orchards of mulberry, poplar, and vine, washed by fresh rills, and have an air of comparative neatness and comfort.

The village was a few Chinese stores, a Catholic and a Protestant church, a graveyard, and a scattered collection of homes.

[Illustration: Woman's knife for cutting meat] CHAPTER XXV PENZHINAPOSTS FOR ELEVATED ROADFIFTY-THREE BELOW ZEROTALKED OUTASTRONOMICAL LECTURESEATING PLANETSTHE HOUSE OF A PRIEST The village of Penzhina is a little collection of log houses, flat-topped yurts, and four-legged balagáns, situated on the north bank of the river which bears its name, about half-way between the Okhotsk Sea and Anadyrsk.

The village and the factory were a maze of trenches, redoubts, caves, stairs up and stairs down, machine-guns, barbed wire, enfilading devices were all ready.

No less than five little steeples, towers, or belfries, for neither word is exactly suitable to the architectural prodigies we wish to describe, rose above the roofs, denoting the sites of the same number of places of worship; an American village usually exhibiting as many of these proofs of liberty of conscience caprices of conscience would perhaps be a better termas dollars and cents will by any process render attainable.

Before the battle, however, the village of Waterloo had been the headquarters of the Duke and there he rested for two days after the battle was won.

The village was once a noted emporium for cloth, and "Dunsters" were quoted at reputable prices by every chapman.

A Russian village after nightfall is the quietest human habitation on earth.

Other villages had been points of topical importance; they had been in the midst of a fight.

The central village, called Markova, is the residence of the priest and boasts a small rudely built church, but in winter it is a dreary place.

79 Metaphors for  village