Now they came to regions of panic, now to regions of destruction; here people were fighting for food, here they seemed hardly stirred from the countryside routine.
He held his Sunday services in the old church in the Beckenham Road, and then the countryside came out in a curious reminiscence of the urban dress of Edwardian times.
The Welsh and English countryside at that time presented the strangest mingling of the assurance and wealth of the opening twentieth century with a sort of Dureresque medievalism.
All the wires and cables of the countryside converged upon it like guests to entertainment.
Beyond this desolated area the countryside was still standing, but almost all the people had fled.
The flocks and herds of the countryside were in still worse case than the wild deer which had escaped from their forest sanctuaries before the first of the snow and had been huddling about the village while it endured.
The aversion displayed toward him by dogs had now become a matter of wide remark, and he was obliged to carry a pistol in order to traverse the countryside in safety.
The next day all the countryside was in a panic; and cowed, uncommunicative groups came and went where the fiendish thing had occurred.
Everyone in the town and countryside would be interested in seeing and reading about the new train.
The days were bright and warm with the softness of early summer and the countryside was green with a richness that only the middle west knows.
It has a dilute sweetness which rapidly cloys an unaccustomed palate, though the people of the countryside suck it continuously, and many consider the natural sugar the source of all health.
The white buyers and landlords had been consistently defrauding the Negro countryside by overlooking the enhanced value of cotton.
Certainly whenever a countryside in the South is visited by some special act of violence there is a tendency for the colored population to flee.
Mr Gilbert has done intensely for the English countryside what Balzac did for his nation on a great scale.
Not only is each of the great array of characters set forth vividly, but the larger problems of the countryside are illuminated from various angles.
In the market places the farmers from the countryside learned of British policies and laws, and so, mingling with the townsmen, were drawn into the main currents of opinion which set in toward colonial nationalism and independence.
The news came that King James had been dethroned by his angry subjects, and the people of Boston, kindling a fire on Beacon Hill, summoned the countryside to dispose of Andros.
I discounted it even more because I hadn't been roaring around the countrysidebiting innocent citizens.
Just as Rhine Institute was opened, the Government combed the countryside for dead or cloudy areas for their secret and confidential files.
On the second day she went and sat before the glazed window, and without intermission looked out all day at the countryside and the falling snow, and watched to see if Anne-Mie were coming.
Meanwhile all the cocks in the countryside awoke one by one and heralded with their clarions the new day about to dawn.
He did not think to meet an enemy in strength, but there might be lurkers, men of thecountryside ready to fall upon stragglers from the army that had passed that way.
The old of this countryside remember us, going here and there.
Ian wore a dress of Strickland's, a hat and cloak that thecountryside knew.
She is so like Miss Fanny at home who could not sew at all well, but when she made a dress that a woman could wear all the countryside knew about it.
I know what the countryside says about Donald Cameron's money.
It was you shot Conal and I'm going to let all the countryside know it," she said, facing McNab in the reeking parlour of the Black Bull.
By a miracle the shanty had escaped the fires; it remained standing when scarcely another house in the countryside did.
Now, it is known to all the countryside that Boyd Connoway is no drinker.
There's no one like Bridget for drawing all the riff-raff of the countryside about her--I know some will say that comes of marrying me.
Moreover, a trusty messenger hath reached Sir Giles Seaward with orders to raise the countryside and to assemble in Petersfield marketplace to-morrow at noon.
I delved every night for more than a fortnight, till the countryside rang with tales of the ghost of Holwick, and none would venture near o' nights, and hardly by day.
Reports came in that the countryside was up in arms, moving to attack the Mercutians.
Wat, as the least conspicuous, was delegated to scour the countryside and bring in stores of provisions.
The whole countryside is indeed strangely reminiscent of the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire and Bucks.
Yes, Elizabeth had the two fatal badges of the wild MacDuffs, coupled with dear knows what inheritance from her mother's people, the fighting MacDonalds, who had been the scandal of the whole countryside in the early days.
Mr. Martin, not knowing how harmful the weapon might be, but being only too well aware that the man behind the gun was always to be feared, retired precipitately, and the whole countryside laughed long and loud over the victory.
For a lawsuit, as everyone in thecountryside knew, was held as a disgrace, no matter how righteous one's case might be.
So the countryside settled down for the winter, and as Christmas approached the Martin-Teeter conflict ceased to occupy the public mind.
Long after the countryside had given up talking of poor Sandy's flitting, they discussed Tom's wonderful speech.
They felt they had good reason to be, for was it not known all over the countryside that Martha Ellen was the best-dressed young lady outside Cheemaun.
All year is green out in the countryside where I was born.
Is the French countryside similar to Northern California, as everyone here seems to think?
They had been busy filling certain shelves, which they had fixed up above the cat-hutches, with the best apples the more peaceful and sparsely populated parts of the countryside afforded.
At about half past two he arrived, bringing a great tale of the excitement of the countryside at the kidnaping of the princess.
The Messines ridge is a long, low hill, only about 300 feet in height, but it commands the countryside for miles around, and had become the heavily fortified barrier to bar the Allied advance between Ypres and Armentiers.
The new German methods of defence in depth depended, in Flanders, upon the concrete structures built in and around the foundations of the destroyed farms with which that countryside is studded.
Numerous recruiting marches were also carried out, which provided further training in marching and march-discipline, and at the same time exhibited detachments of the units from the countryside to the remotest villages in their area.
Many of the isolated farms, with which thatcountryside is bestrewn, were, however, undamaged, right up to the front line.
There was shortage of wire in February and the early part of March, and bad indeed would have been the state of the defences but for the large dumps left behind by the French, for which the countryside was scoured.
The countryside of the Somme was poor of soil, though the industry of the inhabitants extracted good crops from it, and curiously unlike that of the North of Ireland in its absence of pasture.
They could not remember that they had ever observed the wide view before; it was like a revelation or an outlook towards the celestial country, the sight of their own green farms and the countryside that bounded them.
Yet the whole countryside neighbored her with true affection.
In August of that year the whole countrysideturned out to go to court.
A show place even in that countryside where wealth is a commonplace, Byewolde was the envy of its neighbors.
The engagement David had not yet revealed, but had it been openly known the countryside could not have done more in the way of making Bab's days at Byewolde memorable.
Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of the countryside are under guerrilla influence, the movement lacks the military strength or popular support necessary to overthrow the government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countryside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
