Villagers Sentence Examples

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  • Villagers only wear socks on state occasions.

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  • It is remarkable for the quaintness of the buildings and the picturesque costume of the villagers, who are of a singularly dark and robust type.

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  • The villagers regard the Passion Play as a solemn act of religious worship, and the performances are characterized by the greatest reverence.

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  • The villagers need another hut to live in.

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  • After this Jesus passed away from the enthusiastic crowds by the lake to visit His own Nazareth, and to find there a strange incredulity in regard to one whom the villagers knew as the carpenter.

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  • The former focuses on casual games like Virtual Villagers, whereas the latter has a video game section talking mostly about Nintendo-related topics.

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  • Motivation comes from all fronts, and that is easily one of Virtual Villagers greatest strengths.

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  • When the stupa was discovered the villagers had already carried off the greater part of the monument to build their cottages with the stones and bricks of it.

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  • Quickly, he and the villagers force it into subterranean catacomb.

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  • They had a communal larder, and the villagers used to come and steal from this, and I can remember a curious incident.

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  • The Green is enjoyed by villagers of all ages.

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  • Looking for Virtual Villagers cheat codes and hints?

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  • The societies or individuals undertaking village settlements must do so from philanthropic motives, inasmuch as within two years of the founding of a village, the land, under pain of forfeiture to the state, must be transferred gratuitously to the villagers.

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  • In 1518, as a result of the war of the Comunidades of Castille, a mimic war broke out in Sancti Spiritus among its two score villagers.

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  • In the estimation of these people "Siva and Vishnu may be more dignified beings, but the village deity is regarded as a more present help in trouble, and more intimately concerned with the happiness and prosperity of the villagers.

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  • Working together, villagers cleaned and fenced nine boreholes, cleared and opened drainage areas, and constructed new household pit latrines.

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  • Venality and the extortion of the tax-gatherer flourished anew after the departure of Gordon, while the feebleness of his successors inspired in the Baggara a contempt for the authority which prohibited them pursuing their most lucrative traffic. When Mahommed Ahmed (q.v.), a Dongolese, proclaimed himself the long-looked-for Mandi (guide) of Islam, he found most of his original followers among the grossly superstitious villagers of Kordofan, to whom he preached universal equality and a community of goods, while denouncing the Turks 2 as unworthy Moslems on whom God would execute judgment.

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  • A letter campaign inundated Intel with over 2000 letters about their plant built on land Israel confiscated in 1949 from expelled Palestinian villagers.

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  • Vocational training centers where the TOS can work with NGOs to re-train villagers in areas other than fishing are being considered.

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  • One of the chief problems of more leisure time was that villagers in some villages had nothing to do except drink and get drunk.

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  • A great burden was also exacted on the villagers in the region.

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  • Write "Mafia" on two slips of paper (unless your group is under 10, then you can just have one Mafia member and one of everything but the villagers).

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  • Paisleys stamped in various ink patterns on their hands helped villagers communicate when the harvest was ready for picking.

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  • It's more of a community experience where you customize your home and your village, interact with the villagers there, send letters, grow and pick fruit and flowers, fish, catch bugs -- you get the picture.

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  • Interact with other villagers and customize your home in every way imaginable.

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  • Find them before the villagers do and sell them to Tom Nook for 5,000 bells each.

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  • On Halloween the villagers will be dressed as "Jack" with Jack-o-Landerns on their heads and will run after you for candy.

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  • While none of this is particularly deep, it's still fun to see how villagers respond to you and to witness certain physical "changes" that your character goes through.

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  • Whether these be quests from the Heroes' Guild that advance the story, or simply doing small tasks for one of the villagers, is entirely up to you.The combat in Fable is simple yet varied enough to keep it interesting.

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  • Fans of speedy arcade action will find some value here, but you're in search of a deep RPG (like Virtual Villagers), you're in for a big disappointment.

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  • Solve over a hundred puzzles that tie into a storyline that involves crazy villagers.

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  • Now you get to deal with crazed Spanish-speaking villagers, throwing dynamite and swinging chainsaws.

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  • Virtual Villagers is a simulation game where you are responsible for a tribe of people who have survived a volcanic eruption on the island.

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  • LoveToKnow wants to help you out with Virtual Villagers by providing some helpful hints, tips and cheats.

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  • One of the first problems your villagers will encounter is how to find food.

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  • Train a couple of villagers to be researchers so they will be able to produce gardens and fish.

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  • Have your villagers remove all the junk away.

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  • What this means is that even when you are not playing, the villagers are busy working away at collecting food and building new structures.

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  • Virtual Villagers is perhaps one of the most complex "casual" games on the market, yet it is simple enough for you to just pick up and play.

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  • The villagers' immediate needs -- food, shelter, and so on -- need to be met, but you also have to ensure their longevity and sustainability.

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  • If you loved Virtual Villagers but want more, Westward just might be your cup of tea.

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  • There's loads more to do in this excellent simulation game, and in many respects, it makes Virtual Villagers seem confined and limited.

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  • Westward culls a lot of great ideas from popular games such as Virtual Villagers and even World of Warcraft.

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  • In answer to the villagers' prayers to kill the monster, the great spirit sent a powerful storm, which turned both mountaintop and warrior into stone.

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  • Villagers scatter when this roaring red dragon flaps its orange wings as it stomps forward, flaunting the wild fur on the top of its head and using his fuzzy body to bully its intended prey.

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  • What's more, the virtually unlimited selection of Renaissance costumes for children is a blessing for parents who don't enjoy hunting for must-have clothing and accessories for kids determined to imitate authentic Renaissance villagers.

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  • He did not mingle much with the villagers and mostly kept to himself.

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  • One night, the villagers hid in the man's barn to see what had made the strange tracks.

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  • Frightened, the villagers hurried back to their homes and locked the doors.

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  • The accident claimed the lives of four villagers and earned Emmerdale its highest ratings at the time!

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  • Countless stories tell tales of dragons that ravaged the countryside looking for hapless villagers to dine upon.

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  • Usually a hero steps forward to slay the beast, and the story has a happy ending- at least as far as the villagers are concerned.

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  • By participating in the new year celebrations, villagers ensured good fortune, prosperity, and safety for the year.

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  • The arable land was divided into two or, more usually, three fields, which were cut up into strips bounded by balks and allotted to the villagers in such a way that one holding might include several disconnected strips in each field - a measure designed to prevent the whole of the best land falling to one man.

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  • These orders are of very ancient date, owing their establishment to the ancient Hindu rule, followed by the Buddhists, that each "twice-born" man should lead in the woods the life of an ascetic. The second class of Fakirs are simply disreputable beggars who wander round extorting, under the guise of religion, alms from the charitable and practising on the superstitions of the villagers.

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  • Sporadic insurrections had already broken out among the Bosnian Christians, and on the 1st of July 1875 the villagers of Nevesinje, which gives its name to a mountain neolithische Station von Butmir (Vienna 1895-1898); P. Ballif, Romische Strassen in Bosnien and Herzegovina (Vienna, 1893, &c.).

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  • Of the last-named class 30% owned less than 3 hectares, 60% from 10-50 hectares, 3% from 3-to hectares, 5% from 50-100 hectares, while 17% of all the villagers were landless.

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  • The population (about 39,000) is divided into two classes- orang burger or citizens, and orang negri or villagers, the former being a class of native origin enjoying certain privileges conferred on their ancestors by the old Dutch East India Company.

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  • Nominally the sultan of Tidore is still the suzerain of western New Guinea, but his authority is scarcely recognized, except on some few shores and adjacent islands, and practically Dutch New Guinea used to be administered partly from Ternate and partly from Timor, upon more peaceful lines than was the case when the rule of the Dutch in New Guinea largely consisted of the sending of a warship now and again to some distant island or bay to burn a kampong, to punish rebellious villagers, and thus assert or reassert Dutch authority, or that of the sultan, who is their vassal.

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  • He was buried in Kelmscott churchyard, followed to the grave by the workmen whom he had inspired, the members of the league which he had supported, the students of the art gild he had founded, and the villagers who had learnt to love him.

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  • A current project in South Kalimantan is helping villagers grow rattan canes in previously harvested production forests.

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  • Across most of Europe, however, villagers remained hesitant despite legal systems which seemed to encourage then to take action.

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  • On a stormy night in 1336 the local villagers saw a lone horseman dressed in black approach the castle.

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  • As to the claimed gas attacks on Kurdish villagers, the CIA said " precise information " on those events was " lacking.

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  • Some villagers in the more northern part of this area were taken directly to Bhalagwe after their detention.

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  • This was done by thamadis, assessors, usually appointed by the villagers themselves.

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  • By the Upper Burma Village Regulations and the Lower Burma Village Act, the villagers themselves were made responsible for maintaining order in every village, and the system has worked with the greatest success.

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  • These consist of coarse blankets and cotton cloths made by the villagers inhabiting the southern tract.

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  • They are very docile, and the little children of the villagers often ride them to or from the river.

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  • Moreover, Hajjaj, in order to maintian the regular revenue from taxation, had been obliged to introduce stringent regulations, and had compelled a great many villagers who had migrated to the cities to return to their villages.

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  • At that time it was the custom to call up the whole able-bodied population of the manor, with the exception of the housewives for two, three or more days of mowing and reaping on the lord's fields; to these boon-works the peasantry was asked or invited by special summons, and their value was so far appreciated that the villagers were usually treated to meals in cases where they were again and again called off from their own fields to the demesne.

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  • Priests, merchants, villagers, especially about Shiraz, townsmen, shopkeepers, doctors and lawyers wear it very long, often nearly to the heels.

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  • In it are carried, by literati and merchants, the pen-case and a roll of paper; its voluminous folds are used as pockets; by the bazaar people and villagers, porters and merchants servants, a small sheath knife is struck in it; while by farrashes, the carpet-spreader class, a large khanjar, or curved dagger, with a heavy ivory handle, is carried.

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  • Manufactures are few and undeveloped, but lace from the aloe fibre, Turkey carpets and basket-work are produced by the villagers, and boats are built at both the principal towns.

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  • At one point on the coast the villagers everywhere were "soothing their wearied hearts with.

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  • They have told us how he never shot at a bird perching nor fished with a net, the creatures not having in such a case a fair chance for their lives; how he conducted himself in court and among villagers; how he ate his food, and lay in his bed, and sat in his carriage; how he rose up before the old man and the mourner; how he changed countenance when it thundered, and when he saw a grand display of viands at a feast.

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  • From any part of the salt tract one may see the boundary of the inner arable part of the district fringed with long lines of trees, from which every morning the villagers drive their cattle out into the saliferous plains to graze.

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  • The Samaritan villagers use it in winter as pastureground, and, with the Circassians and Arabs of the east bank, cultivate plots here and there.

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  • The creatures are also using a sophisticated android to strike terror into the local villagers.

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  • Then the villagers find out that he's actually German and people suddenly become hostile.

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  • The villagers kept their children away from him, so it looks as if this a revenge killing.

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  • As we descended the mountain and ran into the village, I remember the villagers shouting, urging us on.

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  • Now a teenager, he attempts to earn the villagers ' respect by training to become the village's top ninja.

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  • For vitamin A the NGO trains villagers to grow and eat papaya, pumpkins, carrots and other yellow vegetables.

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  • Judging by the contents of their rubbish pits, the villagers were living a comfortable existence under Roman rule.

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  • The villagers are usually aware of a clean water source, often several kilometers away, which has been running for many years.

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  • The church tower, like that at Newton Arlosh, stands testament to the need for a place of refuge for the local villagers.

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  • This terrible atrocity occurred when terrified villagers tried to escape the bombs hailing down on them.

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  • He was told to tell the villagers that they would not return to the village to continue their ministry.

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  • A list of questions were sent out to addresses in the Welton Parish asking villagers about the proposed new housing developments for Daventry.

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  • They say that many more of their fellow villagers ran away; they did not know what became of them.

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  • However, most ordinary villagers still had very little spare time.

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  • Having a party with local villagers at the end of a stunning 6 day trek.

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  • The Rumanian folk-songs, sung and often improvised by the villagers, or by a wandering guitar-player (cobzar), are of exceptional interest and beauty (see Literature, below).

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  • He travelled secretly through Kordofan, where (with ample justification) he denounced to the villagers the extortion of the tax-gatherer and told of the coming of the mandi who should deliver them from the oppressor.

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  • I also dreamed that I might gather the wild herbs, or carry evergreens to such villagers as loved to be reminded of the woods, even to the city, by hay-cart loads.

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  • When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; and by the time the villagers had broken their fast the morning sun had dried my house sufficiently to allow me to move in again, and my meditations were almost uninterupted.

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  • The traditional scene is the gathering of villagers in the evening for the telling of stories and the recitation of poetry.

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  • Facing sabotage attempts from a local bus company, the villagers must find a way to keep their plans on track.

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  • The chief employment of the villagers is agriculture, but some straw-hat making is still done by the women.

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  • For all the ordinary townsmen, villagers, and particularly mothers, breadwinners and children who live there?

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  • But they are now met by militant villagers who puncture the tires and even beat up the drivers and send them packing.

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  • One imagines the villagers gathered outside this church, watching the flames and smoke rise.

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  • Teach the villagers how to revive a dying garden by dropping one of them on an area where dead flowers are present and have them water the plants.

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  • Virtual Villagers is officially categorized as a "casual game" but it offers a lot more depth and long-term strategy than what is normally found within these types of titles.

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  • You completely control the little villagers' fates in Virtual Villagers, a fantastic simulation game that comes highly recommended.

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  • That said, most of the villagers are pretty dense, so you'll need to be somewhat persistent, but the rewards are well worth it.

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  • Two-thirds of the villagers were to be French immigrants, the other third Frenchmen or naturalized Frenchmen already settled in Algeria.

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  • The officers were told by their guide that they might shoot, but the villagers had not given permission and were incensed at the shooting of their pigeons by other officers in the previous year.

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  • These newcomers have not been completely assimilated with the villagers among whom they have found a home; the latter despise them, and discourage intermarriage.

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  • Crowds of petty traders attend, bringing all those miscellaneous articles that can be packed into a pedlar's wallet; and the neighbouring villagers look forward to the occasion to satisfy alike their curiosity and their household wants.

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  • Abi Moslim, who had been at the head of the financial department in Irak under IIajjaj, and had been made governor of Africa by Yazid II., issued orders that the villagers who, having adopted Islam, were freed from tribute according to the promise of Omar II., and had left their villages for the towns, should return to their domiciles and pay the same tribute as before their conversion.

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  • The story of the heroine is annually celebrated by a play in which the villagers take part.

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  • Large districts on the southern slopes of the Taurus chain are covered with forests of oak and fir, and there are numerous yailas or grassy "alps," with abundant water, to which villagers and nomads move with their flocks during the summer months.

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  • In the same way the villagers had to go through the work of harrowing with their harrows, and of removing the harvest in their vans and carts.

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  • Their social tendencies are distinctly communistic; property is often owned by the family in common, and a man can call upon the services of his fellow villagers for certain purposes, as the building of a house.

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  • The lower classes, whether villagers or public servants, are little better than the slaves of higher officials.

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