We countryfolk have done no wrong to anybody, and we ought not to be afraid.
But they know that there are many thousands of their contented countryfolkin the neighbouring Kossovo and, what is more, they know that the towns of Kossovo are their markets.
Pretty countryfolk had few chattels then, John Eglinton observed, as they have still if our peasant plays are true to type.
He murmured then with blond delight for all: Between the acres of the rye These pretty countryfolk would lie.
Stutsfall Castle the countryfolkcall those shattered walls that tell of Roman dominion, rendered "Studfall" on the map.
The place seems strangely familiar, yet the "Eagle Gates," as the countryfolk call them, of this domain of Broome Park are certainly unknown to us.
Well, the countryfolk believe that, on certain nights, there can be heard in the castle courtyard distinct whispering--the counsel of the devil himself to certain conspirators who took the life of the notorious Cardinal Setoun.
Was it actually true, as the countryfolk declared, that death overtook all those who overheard the counsels of the Evil One?
Hers was, indeed, a pathetic little figure, and the countryfolk used to stare at her in surprise and sigh as she passed through the various little hamlets and villages so regularly, the black collie bounding before her.
And more numerous by far were the townsfolk, nobles and merchants and others, who went to live among the countryfolk and intermarried with them, and produced a people which is better described not as a democracy, but as an aristocracy.
With quite unwonted energy we rose before seven o'clock, and after dressing and taking a cup of tea in our own little sitting-room, went out to the Alameda to see the countryfolk coming in to Mass or market.
I never saw flowers for sale in the big daily market, and the few clusters that in spring the countryfolk brought in to the Saturday market would scarcely have sufficed to trim one fashionable hat.
The congregation of countryfolk devour their canonised bird, and wash him down with beer and cider.
Yet every page of it is a Jeremiad, an exhortation to his countryfolk to stop short on the road to ruin.
Herr Riehl is, in fact, deeply concerned to see amongst his countryfolk a gradual slackening of family ties, a widespread selfish individualism amongst women, an abdication of duty and authority amongst men.
You look at him pensively, and suddenly see one of the great everyday distances between your countryfolk and his.
It has been long held famous among countryfolk as an excellent plant for coughs, asthma, and pulmonary consumption.
Leaving the Exchange, they found the streets alive with people; not only had the fine weather brought out the citizens, but the town was full of countryfolk up for the Trinity law term.
But as I was going to speak to her, she looked at me so evilly I remembered what the countryfolk say of her, and such a fright came over me again, I cried out, 'Avaunt in the name of Jesus!
By this time they were close alongside; and the man, with the countryfolk instinct, turned his cloudy vision first of all on his companion's mount.
When countryfolk get gossiping, they go on, I do assure you, for the fun; they don't as much as think of what they say.
Nigel, I pray you to order the countryfolk forward with their fardels of fagots.
Have I not ordered you to leave the countryfolk at peace?
The countryfolk whisper that these birds are the souls of those who have been drowned at the ford--those who have dared to pass unwarily when the tide was pouring in with the force of the ocean behind it.
He is often said by the countryfolk to have been St. Romedius himself, though this, of course, could not be the case.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countryfolk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
