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Example sentences for "great town"

  • We found the ruins of a great town at this place, but very few inhabitants.

  • We came to Sarruna, a great town of the rajputs with a castle, fourteen coss from Tatta.

  • Every city or great town in India has markets twice a-day, in the cool of the morning just after sun-rise, and again in the evening a little before it sets; and in these they sell almost every thing by weight.

  • But the wages of labour are generally higher in a great town than in a country village.

  • It generally requires a greater stock to carry on any sort of trade in a great town than in a country village.

  • There are some sorts of industry, even of the lowest kind, which can be carried on nowhere but in a great town.

  • He passed that day by a great town called Tallimuchase; the people were fled; he lodged half a league further, near a brook.

  • The next day he passed by a great town called Hapaluya, and lodged at Uzachil, and found no people in it, because they durst not tarry for the notice the Indians had of the slaughter of Napetuca.

  • That day when he went from Tallise, he lodged at a great town called Casiste.

  • Having passed Rio Grande, the Governor traveled a league and a half, and came to a great town of Aquixo, which was dispeopled before he came thither.

  • In the whole island there is no city or great town, and most of the people dwell in caves, though some have small thatched cottages, separated from each other, more savage than pastoral.

  • The mountain is very high, the country around being plain and open, having on its borders a great town inhabited by Christians, into which no Mahometan can enter except he who gathers the rents and duties belonging to the Turks.

  • What is the point in the saying "A great town is a great solitude"?

  • A locality like this seems favourable to a great town.

  • No increasing populousness or bustle, or passage of exits and entrances, announces the vicinity of a great town: Paris is all within its own walls.

  • For the first time his soul received the shock of a great town, or what was a great town to him.

  • You were not brought from a great town to be buried in a wilderness.


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