Nevertheless the cheerful habitants sold their harvests to Clark and received in payment his paper on New Orleans.
Their children, their fruits and flowers, the dance--happy always were the Creole habitants provided only they heard the fiddle string.
French habitants of St. Charles, waving caps and kerchiefs to answering cheers from the crew and the guns.
The French habitants of Vincennes were smoking their pipes in their rude verandas, when afar they saw the gleam of red coats.
With the first pale streak of dawn the sleeplesshabitants looked out.
Nelson had given Hindenlang to understand that the habitants had risen and that he would be greeted at the Canadian border by a large force of enthusiastic recruits.
These men, under the belief that the habitants would rise and join them, determined upon an armed invasion of Canada.
In a day or two word came to Montreal that considerable numbers of armed habitants had gathered at the villages of St Denis and St Charles, evidently with the intention of preventing the arrest of their leaders.
When some of the habitants came to him complaining that they had been forced against their will to join the rebels, he reminded them of the English proverb: 'You may lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
It was thought necessary that a few examples should be made, as Lord Durham's amnesty of the previous year had evidently encouraged some {127} habitants to believe that rebellion was a venial offence.
As a rule the meetings were held in the country parishes after church on Sunday, when the habitants were gathered together.
Traces of these unions are found at the present day, in the province of Quebec, in a few Scottish names of habitants who cannot speak English.
The habitants are compelled to grind their wheat at his mill, to use his great bake oven, to patronize his tannery.
Besides, had not the priest assured them year in and year out that France would recover Acadia and put to the sword those habitants who had forsworn France?
Not counting Indians, there is an army of fifteen to twenty thousand to be fed; so Bigot compels the habitants to sell him provisions at a low price.
From Montreal to Three Rivers crops went up in flame, and the terrified habitants came cowering with their families to the shelter of the palisades.
The soldiers, as you know, are drilling, and the habitants are finishing the fallow.
Some of the men clamored to keep the cubs for mascots; and the habitants declared that the journey would be lucky if they did.
The regular troops were very few; and, though the disbanded Carignan soldiers furnished the groundwork of a valiant militia, the habitants and their seigneurs alone could not be expected to defend such a territory against such a foe.
If he wished to keep for the Seminary money which ought to go to the parishes, the habitants were helpless.
In this crisis the habitants and their seigneurs accepted with courage the duties laid upon them.
Beyond question the habitants were entitled to have priests living permanently in their midst, as soon as conditions should warrant it.
Early in August there appeared on Lake St Louis a vast flotilla of canoes, which at first caused the afflicted habitants to fear that the Iroquois were upon them again.
To this end the habitants were being cared for by itinerant priests at much less expense than would be entailed by fixing on each parish the support of its cure.
The vanity of the habitants could be better exercised in applauding Madelinette and in show of welcome to the great men of the land, than in cultivating a dangerous patriotism under the leadership of Louis Racine.
Within half-an-hour, in utter collapse and fright, he was being driven to the next parish by two young habitants whom he paid to accompany him.
Many habitants had heard Louis Trudel's last words, and had passed them on with vehement exaggeration.
If this man was to be allowed to advise the habitants of Chaudiere on their disputes and "going to law," where would his own prestige be?
Disaffection was kept alive in parts of Lower Canada and the habitants were fed with hopes that the armed assistance of American sympathizers would ensure success for a second attempt at independence.
In the troubles of '37 the simple habitants thought they were fighting for the abolition of the seigneurs' dues.
Rossignol had exchanged for the notes of hand of such of the habitants as had not ready cash to give.
Charley had been confined to his room for three days, because of his injuries and a feverish cold he had caught, and the habitants did not disturb his quiet.
The tailor of Chaudiere had been busier than usual, for winter was within hail, and careful habitants were renewing their simple wardrobes.
They did it impartially for all, as the Cure and three of the best-to-do habitants had done for the Seigneur, whose four thousand dollars had been paid in first of all.
Sleep had settled on it long before midnight, for, on the morrow, its master and mistress hoped to make a journey to the valley of the Chaudiere, where the Passion Play was being performed by habitants and Indians.
The procedure employed in calling upon the habitants to work upon the roads was that the grand voyer issued an order to the local captains of militia, who published the order to the habitants by notice at the church doors.
The office of grand voyer had existed in the colony since 1657, but until Lanoullier's time, it seems to have been neglected, and when the habitants along the road were called upon to work upon it, they obeyed with much reluctance.
When the order was read at the church, the habitants would dismiss the matter with a shrug, and the remark "c'est un ordre anglais.
For many years before Canada passed into the possession of the British, the habitants were fully occupied with the war, and when peace was restored, the roads remained as the war had left them.
The grand voyer complained to Finlay that it was impossible to induce the habitants to work upon the roads.
The maitres de poste, he stated, were habitantswho possessed, each of them, a small property which rendered them quite independent.
The habitants and agitators, who were far less favourable to the new regime, had passionately resented Haldimand's firmness at times of crisis.
But many of thehabitants and of the uneducated in the towns lent a willing ear to those who promised them all kinds of liberty and property put together.
For the last fourteen years the habitants had been gradually drifting away from their former habits of obedience and former obligations towards their leaders in church and state.
The habitants were ignorant, credulous, and suspicious to the last degree.
The habitants would raise no more than they required for their own use and for a little local trade.
The rebels had been busy spreading insidious perversions of the belated Quebec Act, poisoning the minds of the habitants against the British government, and filling their imaginations with all sorts of terrifying doubts.
The militia were mostly of the seigneurial class with a following of habitants and townsmen of both French and British blood.
The clergy and seigneurs wished for a continuance of the Quebec Act, and the habitants wanted they knew not what, provided it would enable them to get more and give less.
And later on, when Arnold's men came up the Kennebec, it was satisfactorily explained to most of the habitants that it was no good resisting dead-shot riflemen who were bullet-proof themselves.
The habitants hung back or broke into riotous mobs.
They were determined to make a supreme effort to regain Quebec in the spring; and they were equally determined that the habitants should not be free to supply the British with provisions.
The habitants were friendly, but very shy about enlisting, in spite of Washington's invitation to 'range yourselves under the standard of general liberty.
It should be remembered that the habitants in Lower Canada had suffered great losses from the issues of paper money during the French régime.
Sir John wrote that no fewer than thirteen thousandhabitants had assembled between the 3d and 8th of November expecting to be furnished arms by their Vermont and New York sympathizers.
He got employment under Schuyler and it was Ethan Allen with John Brown, now Major, who had formerly been sent to Montreal to sound the merchants, who bore Schuyler’s manifesto from Isle aux Noix to the habitants of Canada.
Great care was taken to instruct the habitants of the value of their money and warn them against becoming the victims of speculators.
At Côte de Neiges a party ofhabitants had become possessed of arms and were determined to defend themselves if attacked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "habitants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
