Townsfolk Sentence Examples

Apparently he spent a lot of time on the back of a horse, riding his range in all kinds of weather - a fact that prompted more than one comment by townsfolk that he had wasted a good college education.

This is the busy season of the townsfolk.

St Lawrence's chapel, a chantry built under Edward I., was bought by the townsfolk at the Reformation.

In many parts the peasants and townsfolk, enraged by the licence of the French, hung on his flank and rear.

Discouraged by this failure in the pulpit, Savonarola now devoted himself to teaching in the convent, but his zeal for the salvation of the apathetic townsfolk was soon to stir him to fresh efforts.

In German universities the townsfolk of Jaffa (Joppa) to the Egyptian desert south of Gaza (on the subsequent extension of the name in its Greek form Palaestina, see Palestine).

In both rebellions the magistrates took the side of the Crown and were supported by the townsfolk generally, the Jacobites drawing their strength mainly from the county noblemen and gentry with their retainers.

In the 13th century, however, whatever the civic organization of the townsfolk may have been, it was still strictly subordinate to the archbishop and his Vogt; the council could issue regulations only with the consent of the former, while in the judicial work of the latter, save in small questions of commercial dishonesty, its sole function was advisory.

Richard Baxter, who was elected by the townsfolk as their minister in 1641, was instrumental in saving the town from a reputation of ignorance and depravity caused by the laxity of their clergy.

The scene ends with the rejection of Christ by His own townsfolk, as in the parallel story of St Mark which St Luke does not give.

It became a town in 1208, and during the middle ages there were many struggles between the abbots and the townsfolk.

Wine and plum-spirit, or the more powerful brandy distilled from grain, are drunk in great quantities by the townsfolk, more sparingly by countrymen; Rumans generally being more sober than the western Europeans.

It lingered on in a subterranean fashion among a small class in the universities and the minor clergy, and had some adherents among the townsfolk and even among the peasantry.

Whitstable's wartime shop keepers were fantastic and helped many townsfolk through such periods selling goods 'on tic ' .

The railroad and station buildings boosted tourist trade into Richmond, also gave the ordinary townsfolk better facility to travel.

The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street.

The smallest conversations, a missed mini-game, speaking to townsfolk in a different order; all of these can cause some profound differences.

At first, Sam believed that Maryann came to Bon Temps to get back the money he stole from her, but she had a much darker agenda and soon, one by one, the townsfolk fell under her sway.

Many of the houses are roofless and untenanted; for, after five centuries of prosperity under Venetian or Hungarian rule, an outbreak of plague in 1456 swept away the majority of the townsfolk, and ruined the survivors.

He commanded at Rochelle during the famous siege, and (if we may believe his brother) the failure of the defence and of the English attack on Rhe was mainly due to the alternate obstinacy of the townsfolk and the English commanders in refusing to listen to Soubise's advice.

It was, however, so often captured by the English that it became a menace rather than a protection, and the townsfolk demolished it in 1409.

The townsfolk contend that the great Cervantes was a native of Alcazar; and, although this claim must be disallowed, much of the action of his masterpiece, Don Quixote, takes place in the neighbourhood.

On their journey through the town, pupils meet other townsfolk, gathering objects and skills, and discovering information on daily Roman life.

Following a revolt by local townsfolk in 1839 the half penny toll for pedestrians was lifted.

They were anxious to make the most of all the advantages, which a railroad would bring to them, and their fellow townsfolk.

Try telling that to the good townsfolk or to Ray Soames ' family.

David II., driven by stress of weather, landed here with his queen Joanna in 1341, and, out of gratitude for the hospitality of the townsfolk, granted them a charter, which James VI.

The strapping six-footer left immediately to join a throng of townsfolk already surging down Kirkhill toward the water 's edge.

Whitstable 's wartime shop keepers were fantastic and helped many townsfolk through such periods selling goods 'on tic '.

The first scenes from Australia showed several hundred townsfolk gathered in the afternoon sunshine in the main street of Carnarvon.

This genre often features conflict between townsfolk and Native Americans, as the classic cowboys and Indians theme.

For centuries the townsfolk used to celebrate his day (July 1st) by walking in procession bearing green boughs.

The beginnings of this rupture, as well as a sharp affray between his volunteers and the townsfolk of Ajaccio, may have quickened Bonaparte's resolve to return to France in May 1792, but there were also personal and family reasons for this step. Having again exceeded his time of furlough, he was liable to the severe penalties attaching to a deserter and an émigré but he saw that the circumstances of the time would help to enforce the appeal for reinstatement which he resolved to make at Paris.

Formerly, when floods resulted from this obstruction, the townsfolk of Helston acquired the right of clearing a passage through it by presenting leathern purses containing three halfpence to the lord of the manor.

Matters were not bettered by the Act of Union signed in a cellar in High Street in 1707, amidst the execrations of the people, and it was not till the hopes of the Jacobites were blasted at Culloden (1746) that the townsfolk began to accept the inevitable.

Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, had her little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice.