742 examples of villagers in sentences

Even the atrocities of 1909 had damaged the economic prospects of the Adapa district from which Dr. Rohrbach hoped so much, for "The first thing the Turkish peasants did was to destroy all the steam-ploughs and nearly all the threshing machines (there were over a hundred of them) which the Armenian villagers had imported for the cultivation of the Civilian plain.

We still visit the place at least once a year and also maintain contact with several of the villagers who worked then on the farm.

The prospect was not exciting, but the simple faith of the villagers that outsiders must share their interest in local concerns has always seemed too touching a thing to wreck.

The Justice has received word from Sir John that he is about to visit him, and desires him to call together a number of the villagers from which recruits may be selected.

These villagers are now grouped upon the green, with Justice Shallow standing near.

Later at night a present of twelve fowls and two pieces of red bunting came to the river bank, from some villagers, I believe.

At dinner, Everard asks for all the villagers, and gathers that Alma Lee is disgraced.

He has a great reception from the villagers.

Who could take the place of the marquise, the old friend of the country curé, and the kindly friend of all the villagers.

After capturing the castle, Bolingbroke bestowed it on his third son, John of Lancaster, and the villagers saw the young prince riding in and out among them daily so long as he made the castle his home.

He was not, however, so engrossed in his work as to ignore other duties; and he was especially interested in the villagers round his home, and ever ready to give what is of greater value than money, personal trouble and time in finding out their wants and in relieving them.

His unvarying kindness and sympathy will never be forgotten at Ablington; for, as one of the villagers wrote in a letter of condolence on hearing of his death, "he went in and out as a friend among them."

It is here that the old-fashioned villagers dwell.

The villagers tell you that watercress, like the oyster, is good in every month with an "r" in it: so that all through the year, save in May, June, July, and August, watercress may be picked and sent to market.

When it does come, the stream, so smooth and glassy now, will be "like a pot a-boiling," as the villagers say.

Were a thousand villages to be compressed into a single group of houses, their people would long retain the notions, tastes and habits of villagers, though they would form a large town in the aggregate.

These are the only works of art which the villagers possessalmost their only books.

THE SHEPHERD'S BOY AND THE WOLF A Shepherd's Boy was tending his flock near a village, and thought it would be great fun to hoax the villagers by pretending that a Wolf was attacking the sheep: so he shouted out, "Wolf! wolf!"

He did this more than once, and every time the villagers found they had been hoaxed, for there was no Wolf at all.

Some villagers happened to be sacrificing a goat on a neighbouring altar, and the Eagle flew down and carried off a piece of burning flesh to her nest.

If Suliman and I were followed, whoever had that job had his work cut out, for we were swallowed up in a noisy stream of home-going villagers, whose baskets and other burdens made an effectual screen behind us as well as in front.

Should I tell the villagers?

Let villagers talk over such matters, and shout and exclaim when they came to hear this strange thing.

At the foot of my garden, and hidden from my window by the clipt box hedge, runs Sanctuary Lane, along which I see the heads of the villagers moving to church on Sunday mornings.

Old Madam Melcombe, as the villagers called her.

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