Those from Rajputana and the neighbouring districtsof the Punjab as a rule rank higher than recruits from the United Provinces and Oudh.
There were well-to-do districts in which the Jat would not follow the pursuit of arms whether in peace or in war.
Only you must be careful to choose your men from districts where they inherit the land and are not alien and browbeaten, but carry their heads high.
In districts where the sub-division of the soil among large families does not leave enough to go round you will get a good recruit.
Mr. Craik has pointed out that "the modern kingdom of Denmark comprehends all the districts from which issued, according to the old accounts, the several tribes who invaded Britain upon the fall of the Roman Empire.
The war goes on in the south-midland counties, where Cuthwulf is fighting; and it reaches the districts of the Severn, where Cuthwine and Ceawlin slay great kings, and take Gloucester and Cirencester and Bath.
The sand passes in some districts into a calcareous sandstone, as at San Vignone.
This member of the metamorphic series enters sparingly into the structure of the hypogene districts of Norway, Sweden, and Scotland, but is largely developed in the Alps.
The surface of the country where it prevails is sometimes marked by the absence of wood, like our chalk downs, or is covered exclusively by the Juniperus Virginiana, as certain chalk districts in England by yew trees and juniper.
This phenomenon may be well studied in those districts where coal has been extensively worked, for there the former relation of the beds which have shifted their position may be determined with great accuracy.
And in the month of September, great numbers of them are to be found in the hop-districts of Kent, Sussex and Surry, where they find employment.
Hoyland informs us, that many counties in Scotland are free of them, while they wander about in other districts of that country, as in England.
At the head of this body of some three hundred men he was entrusted with the difficult task of ‘dissipating and interrupting’ the conventicles in the western and south-western districts of Scotland.
Even if all the magistrates in the disaffected districts had been men of unimpeachable loyalty to the Government, the necessity for obtaining their co-operation would frequently have hampered and delayed the military authorities.
The title-page was a curious specimen of that lingual learning which is so often to be met with in the remotest districts of Ireland.
At Ispahan we see whole districts of broken walls which once were houses, tottering mosques, deserted baths, and untenanted caravanserais.
The first courts in what is now Montana were miners’ courts, presided over by judges elected by the miners of the districts to enforce miners’ rules and regulations by and for themselves.
The silk districts were entirely in the possession of the Ti-pings, and every bale had passed through their hands.
I have all the silk and many tea districts in my possession, and I can stop all your trade in a moment if I am so inclined.
The year 1857 passed over without any important military movement, and the Ti-ping Government was engaged in consolidating its power in the districts and cities it held.
Unable longer to maintain themselves at home, they determined to visit other districts and preach the true doctrine, hoping to support themselves by the sale of a few articles they carried with them for the purpose.
That attempts on the part of foreigners to introduce into the disturbed districts munitions of war and recruits should be vigorously repressed.
The visit to this place was of great interest, as it afforded an opportunity of learning from personal observation the character of the insurgent rule over the people in districts which are no longer the seat of war.
In the Stourbridge, Bromsgrove, and Evesham districts only, had the Liberal candidates a slight majority.
The mean height of the thermometer in the midland districts of England is about 50°, at Worcester the mean will be found slightly to exceed that figure.
Ultimately it was settled that single-member districts should be universal in counties, and that we should leave open for the present the question of how far it should be applied to boroughs.
They assigned the small islands on the coast to the use of the respective districts which lay adjacent to them.
They were wrought exclusively for his benefit, by persons familiar with this service, and selected from the districts where the mines were situated.
The care of the great roads was committed to the districts through which they passed, and a large number of hands was constantly employed under the Incas to keep them in repair.
In his own quiet way he did much good in the poorer districts of London, and he took a special interest in the ragged schools of the metropolis.
The head enginemen shall have the carts and barrels attached to their severaldistricts always in readiness, in good order, and the barrels filled with water, which shall accompany the engines to the fire.
The districts are as follows:-- NORTH SIDE OF RIVER.
In many of the warehouse districts the supply is very limited indeed, although it is there that the largest fires take place.
In the Districtswhere they reside they are perfectly well-behaved.
They are industrious, and their holdings on the rocky soils of the plateau Districts are often cleared of stones at the cost of much labour.
The betel-vine is grown principally in the northern Districts of Saugor, Damoh and Jubbulpore and in those of Berar and the Nagpur plain.
And the Kalanki Brahmans of Wardha and other Districts are looked down upon because, it is said, that at the bidding of a Muhammadan governor they make a figure of a cow from sugar and eat it up.
The Canarese area comprises the Mysore State, and the British Districtsof Canara, Dharwar and Belgaum.
In the northern Districts the marriages of Dhobis are characterised by continuous singing and dancing at the houses of the bridegroom and bride, these performances being known as sajnai and birha.
They are commonly known as Chhipa in the northern Districts and Rangari or Bhaosar in the Maratha country.
The Darzis are an urban caste and are most numerous in Districts with large towns.
In the Maratha Districts they wear a plume of peacock's feathers, which they say was given to them as a badge by Krishna.
They reside principally in the Nagpur, Wardha, Chanda and Nimar Districts of the Central Provinces and in all Districts of Berar.
One, known as Ahirwati, is spoken in the Rohtak and Gurgaon Districts of the Punjab and round Delhi.
The distinctive feature of a Bania wedding in the northern Districts is that women accompany the marriage procession, and the Banias are the only high caste in which they do this.
But if the neighboring country districts had established this octroi for their profit, what would happen?
No doubt it had become necessary to resort to some effectual method of dislodging them, for many of the pastoral districts had been stripped of every blade of grass by their ravages.
Of the three hundred thousand who came to America during the three decades of free entry, the large majority were peasants from the rural districts in the vicinity of Canton.
In districts remote from town, these shows are difficult to obtain; therefore amateur showmen come bravely to the rescue, and their kindly efforts to divert the juveniles meet with due appreciation on all sides.
In the outlyingdistricts of town it has its advantages, when to make a call amounts to almost a journey, and when acquaintances are few in the immediate neighbourhood.
They had disregarded the interest of every part of the United States, but the particular districts of country from which they came.
Can we compensate all the desolation of fire and wanton depredation, provoked from the enemy by the patriotism of particular districts in this country?
Mr. SCOTT moved as a substitute his second proposition, that such districts as shall be set apart for sale, shall include the actual settlements, and be left to be indiscriminately located.
For the same purposes, he said, he confided in the patriotism of the gentlemen who came from those districts of country where uneasiness was said to exist.
So it was in this case; nor, indeed, is the guanaco always an easy quarry, in fact it is a shy animal in the districts where it is hunted by Indians.
The fearlessness of the grey pampa fox is remarkable, even in districts where it is chased by the Indians and their dogs.
In most other districts into which white men have passed for the first time, they have usually been preceded by aborigines, who have made that declaration of war which must invariably be given forth between men and ferae naturae.
I would, therefore, include the name of the Waldron family, who have taken a large part in settling the southern districts of Patagonia and also in the colonising of Tierra del Fuego.
Huemules are, in general, very confiding, for their range is confined for the most part to districts where they have little chance of making acquaintance with the human race.
In some districts the guanaco is very difficult of approach, in others extremely easy.
But all the evidence that I could gather pointed to the fact that this periodic migration is limited in extent, and that certain herds belong, as it were, to certain districts and live and die within a comparatively small area.
Districts where the Indians hunt the guanaco may be passed over as having no bearing on the subject in hand.
Their hides are worth about L1 more or less when sold in the settlements, a value which is enough to turn every man's hand against them, were there any men in those districts whose hands might be so turned.
He had traversed all the districts of sin which the prayer-book patiently enumerated.
He had to journey through districts disturbed by wars, infested with the king's men or the king's enemies, all of whom regarded Gerald with hostility.
Let corn be sowed broadcast, for fodder, in immediate proximity to railroads, rivers and canals; and let all your efforts be directed to the prompt supply of these articles in the districts where our armies are operating.
Representatives and Senators are chosen by districts and by States, but their acts affect the whole country, and their obligations are to the whole people.
Soon they knew quite surely, although there were some backwoods districts still to be heard from.
Here the English tide meets the French tide, and, swelling up the Bay and back in the woods, they overrun the land, and form curious contrasts and results, unknown and unfelt in the purely Acadien districts nearer the sea.
Thus there are four districts whose boundaries on one side are determined by the rivers I have mentioned.
The easterndistricts of the Betsileo province, Central Madagascar.
In the southern districts were heavy forests, but in the central and northern sections were but few groves or other timber growths to afford shelter to stock.
Although the change thus far has been great, there are yet districts in which there has been little improvement in the conditions of the land, of the water supply, or of the people.
The prairie grasses that grew in the central and northern districts were usually devastated by fire during the fall.
In the reactionary districts the population attempted to stir up riots.
German troops were to occupy the conquered districts and evacuate them progressively as the indemnity was paid.
The panic-stricken Government was able to thwart his plebiscitary appeals by re-establishing the scrutin d'arrondissement, or election by small districts instead of by whole departments.
This time the trouble was in the East, where many were dissatisfied with the artificial limitation of districts entitled to produce wines labelled "champagne.
Gambetta, formerly the idol of the working classes of Paris, met with opposition, was hooted in one of his own political rallies, and was re-elected on the first ballot in one only of the two districts in which he was a candidate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "districts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
