49 Verbs to Use for the Word villager

In my mind's eye I could see her just as she had stood on that old stone bridge at Bishopstowe, with the sunset behind her and the church bells sounding across the meadows, calling the villagers to evensong.

Then o'er the lonely path is heard The sigh of sable trees, With deadly moan of suff'ring strife Borne on the solemn breeze For Mary's spirit wanders there, In snowy robe array'd, To tell each trembling villager Where sleeps the murder'd maid.

But ask the untutored villager who has guided you up the hill; and straightway comes the answer:"Sahib, these were not built by man, but by the Gods ere man came hither!" Outside the cave is a pleasant verandah and balus trade, whence you look down over the bare lower slopes to the garden-studded course of the river.

While the butcher is doing his thriving trade the postman arrives to collect letters from the pillar-box, Placing a small horn to his lips, he blows a blast to warn the villagers that the post is going, and, having waited for the last letter, climbs slowly up the steep pathway to Hinderwell.

Nightly could I, till morning grey arrested, Gaze on the dancing, stamping, whistling crowd, Watching the villager,young, happy, festive And hearing drunken peasants glad carouse!

So Sona brought all the villagers to the jungle and the night-jar and jackal sat side by side on a stone.

The news roused the villagers and they determined to try to rid themselves of their foe.

From him we learned that Mohamed Issar, with a following of about one hundred men, had arrived the day before about noon; shortly after, a messenger came in from Sher Afzul, telling him to come into Chitral without delay, and consequently the whole party had set off about 4 P.M. All the villagers, he said, had fled up the Goland Gol to the higher hills, but he would try and bring in any he could find.

The Millville people were getting rather the worst of the scrimmage when out rushed Thursday Smith, swinging a stout iron bar he had taken from the press, and with this terrible weapon he struck out so vigorously that the diversion in their favor enabled the retreating villagers to gain the office, where Booth and Bob West fired several shots that effectually checked the mob.

Jess and Jimsy stood by Roy, fencing off the inquisitive villagers and would-be sympathizers.

Yet this smooth water, wide and clear, This scene of sweet repose; Erst filled the villagers with fear As ancient story goes. 'Tis told us that in dead of night, (In days of yore long past) A skiff was seen compact and light, With sail, and oars, and mast.

They, therefore, forbade the villagers to admit her into their houses, and the shopkeepers to supply her wants.

A few days later he went again to the village and frightened away the villagers as before; but one old woman was too feeble to run away and she hid in a pig sty, and one fowl that the jackal chased, ran into this sty and the jackal followed it, and when he saw the old woman, he told her to catch the fowl for him or he would knock her teeth out; but she told him to catch it himself; so he caught and ate it.

They bore the character of a plodding, taciturn, morose-mannered couple: seldom leaving the farm except to attend market, and rarely seen at church or chapel, they naturally enough became objects of suspicion and dislike to the prying, gossiping villagers, to whom mystery or reserve of any kind was of course exceedingly annoying and unpleasant.

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!"

Likely, if they had known about it, they would have commented on his badness, because he was notoriously bad, if indeedas the villagers told each otherhe was not actually cursed with evil spirits.

Colonel Winslow in 1713 informed the villagers of Grand Pré that the French had formally ceded their village to the English, that George II.

But, after taking it, he joined the other villagers and went at their head to seek out and kill Nandanbaneshwar.

It had killed many villagers and had become so daring that it entered the market-place in broad day-light.

Deception in this, as well as in every thing else, is the order of the day; and the Indian Alcalde now oppresses the villagers as much as he himself has ever been.

that may do for Englishmen very well"he was an Englishman, I knew at once by his accent, and I verily believe the identical radical who set the village of Bracebridge by the ears, and pitched the villagers to the devil, on seeing them grin through a horse-collar, when they should have been calculating the interest of the national debt, or conning over the list of sinecure placemen.

His rage reaches the point of madness; he stabs and poisons the villagers, and burns down their houses.

At Harry's request he promised the villagers that the next day money should be sent out from the king's treasury to make good the losses which they had sustained.

And while in that vast solitude to which The tide of things has borne him, he appears 165 To breathe and live but for himself alone, Unblamed, uninjured, let him bear about The good which the benignant law of Heaven Has hung around him: and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unlettered villagers

since we were children, and we find it very difficult to refrain from what has so long been an established practice amongst us: we are soldiers, sir, and it is not much each man takes; but the British are so strict, that they will protect a villager or even a stranger:" this last sentence was evidently pronounced under a deep sense of unmerited oppression.

49 Verbs to Use for the Word  villager