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Example sentences for "inhabitants"

Lexicographically close words:
ingwa; inhabit; inhabitable; inhabitant; inhabitantes; inhabitation; inhabite; inhabited; inhabiters; inhabiteth
  1. The step may probably have been suggested by himself, as it was the same which, two years before, he had urged upon the inhabitants of Patræ.

  2. The inhabitants of some cities, yet not many,—a fact much to their honor,—availed themselves of this offer and surrendered.

  3. It included, farther, transfers on the largest scale both of inhabitants and of property.

  4. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

  5. Now one-sixth of the whole number of inhabitants of the United States are people who were born in some other country.

  6. Accordingly his twelfth book is devoted to birds, and his thirteenth to the inhabitants of the waters.

  7. Solinus speaketh of Ireland, and saith the inhabitants thereof be fierce, and lead an unhuman life.

  8. The peaceful Maryland villages were entered without warning and quitted before the inhabitants recovered from their surprise.

  9. In 1708, the Viceroy was disposed to support the Duke of Anjou, but on the approach of the British fleet, the inhabitants obliged him to acknowledge Charles.

  10. It is not easy to determine who were the first inhabitants of Spain.

  11. The few inhabitants we saw in the second day's journey were wretchedly poor.

  12. The country appears extremely barren, but is full of inhabitants and small towns.

  13. All his motions most strongly indicated an attempt upon that fortress, and, as there was no doubt of his succeeding, the inhabitants fled with all their effects.

  14. The inhabitants have remonstrated, by saying, that they cannot bear the expence; but his Majesty is unwilling that they should lose so beautiful an ornament.

  15. All the inhabitants are Greeks; for the Turks are not fond of trusting themselves in the small islands; but every summer the Captain Bashaw goes round with a squadron to keep them in subjection, and to collect the revenue.

  16. Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.

  17. Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

  18. Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men.

  19. But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that remain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your habitation.

  20. And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  21. All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet.

  22. I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength.

  23. And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes, saith the Lord.

  24. The people of a strip of territory on the west of the Jamna he held to be of the same type as the bulk of the inhabitants of the United Provinces, and this type he called Aryo-Dravidian.

  25. It may be a Lybian name like Atlantes, both referring to the Antis or Anteus, the early inhabitants of North Africa, and of Peru.

  26. Even in China, the primitive inhabitants often bear the names of beasts, Lung dragons, Chi birds, Yao wolf, Miao tygers.

  27. If we were to add to these the botanists, naturalists, paltry compilers, and pamphlets, we might make a catalogue of 3000 works on America, her inhabitants and productions.

  28. Yet America had some inhabitants before the flood, if we are to believe the concurrent traditions of many American nations; who keep the memory of it, and point to their refuges.

  29. I had announced long ago this history of the Americans, the inhabitants of a whole hemisphere.

  30. This money was taken vp part by imposition, and part by loane, of the most wealthy inhabitants within the Realme: But especially the charge was layd vpon religious persons, for that it was to furnish a religious warre.

  31. Iohn of Beuerlace, lay waste for the space of nine yeeres, without inhabitants to manure the ground.

  32. For, neither were the olde inhabitants expelled, as were the Britaines; neither was the kingdome either subiected or annexed to a greater: but rather it receiued encrease of honour, in that a lesse State was adioyned vnto it.

  33. Its inhabitants are the powerful Beni Shammar, a tribe of which some have passed over to Mesopotamia.

  34. The inhabitants of Medina bury all their dead on this ground, in the same homely tombs as those of the saints.

  35. The inhabitants of Rabegh are of the above-mentioned Harb tribes of Aamer and Zebeyd, principally the latter.

  36. His government was not bad, because his intentions were good, and he was liked by the inhabitants for his [p.

  37. Neither the sanctity of the holy city, nor the solemn injunctions of the Koran, are able to deter the inhabitants of Mekka from the using of [p.

  38. The inhabitants of Mekka may be all styled foreigners, or the offspring of foreigners, except a few Hedjaz Bedouins, or their descendants, who have settled here.

  39. The inhabitants now felt a panic: little disposed to submit [p.

  40. In Nedjed are many ancient wells, lined with stone, and ascribed by the inhabitants to a primeval race of giants.

  41. That the entire family should sit down to a table, eating together and waiting for one another, after the manner of the inhabitants of Western lands, is an idea so foreign to the ordinary Chinese mind as to be almost incomprehensible.

  42. The combined effect of these various causes is to make the Chinese dependent upon local markets to an extent which is not true of inhabitants of Occidental countries.

  43. In the winter one sees many of the houses with doors and windows plastered up, almost all the inhabitants having gone off in droves to beg a living where they can, returning the next spring to look after their wheat.

  44. Certain it is that throughout great regions of the plain of northern China, the inhabitants have no other knowledge of their origin than that they came from that city.

  45. There are no inhabitants at Shiloh now, so we pushed on to Singil, a village situated about three thousand feet above the sea-level, and commanding a most magnificent view.

  46. The fact that it is admitted by many modern geographers would be enough for the inhabitants of Khurbet Kâna or for the Greek Church, if they wished to revenge themselves upon their Catholic rivals.

  47. Beneath one of them were the foundations and ruins of an ancient town which the inhabitants call “Medinet el-Inweileb,” or “the ruins of the long tower.

  48. It has been partially stripped of the external layer of carved stone blocks, and has furnished a quarry to the inhabitants for some centuries.

  49. Thomson identifies it with the Meroz, so bitterly cursed by Deborah because the inhabitants would not join the expedition of Barak.

  50. As none of the inhabitants of Dalieh would accompany me, I found my own way one day to the village, to try and discover the rights of the story.

  51. Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

  52. The United States cover an immense extent of territory, and the inhabitants of different parts of the Union differ as widely in character, feelings, and even in appearance, as the people of different countries usually do.

  53. It arises from the travelling propensities of the Americans, and the constant intercourse mutually maintained by the inhabitants of the different States.

  54. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead.

  55. And the Lord was with Judah, and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

  56. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son, king in his stead.

  57. A hundred men might fail to find a fugitive who cowered motionless amid the luxuriant aquatic growth, though, as Amadu had suggested, the scaled inhabitants of the river would be less likely to miss him.

  58. It had lain basking under fierce sunlight all day, but now the cool shadow of the giant Canadas rested upon it, and its olive-faced inhabitants came forth to breathe the freshness from the Atlantic.

  59. Next day Captain Morgan despatched away two troops, of 150 men each, to seek for the inhabitants who had escaped.

  60. Our fleet, as we sailed, caused no small fears and alarms to the inhabitants of the coasts of France, these judging us to be English, and that we sought some convenient place for landing.

  61. Many of the inhabitants were made prisoners, and they committed upon them the most inhuman cruelties that ever heathens invented, putting them to the cruellest tortures they could devise.

  62. A number of the inhabitants had collected on the beach, among whom was a venerable minister, who offered up a prayer to the Almighty, and exhorted the people to courage and trustfulness.

  63. Next day after they sent a troop of 100 men to seek for the inhabitants and their goods.

  64. They afterwards touched at the island of Trinidad, of the inhabitants of which Vespucci gives a number of details.

  65. He adds that every seven or eight years the inhabitants were obliged to change their residences, from the maladies engendered by such close packing.

  66. The pirates supposed that all the riches of the inhabitants of Maracaibo were transported to Gibraltar, or at least the greater part.

  67. As he supposed himself to have landed on an island at the extremity of India, he applied the term Indians to the aborigines he met, and the same has in consequence become general to all the original inhabitants of the New World.

  68. It was supposed that they perished of cold and starvation; but more than one old Esquimaux told him that they were killed by the inhabitants beyond the mountains.

  69. Then they entered the town, the inhabitants of which had retired to the woods and Gibraltar with their families.

  70. In taverns and alehouses they have great credit; but at Jamaica they ought not to run very deep in debt, seeing the inhabitants there easily sell one another for debt.

  71. At this city also the inhabitants of Sepphoris of Galilee met him, who were for peace with the Romans.

  72. Its inhabitants are a mixture of Jews and Syrians.

  73. Upon this Cureanus sent men to go round about to the neighboring villages, and to bring their inhabitants to him bound, as laying it to their charge that they had not pursued after the thieves, and caught them.

  74. Upon this supposal, therefore, that they should easily get a land that was destitute of inhabitants into their power, they first sacrificed those ambassadors who were come to them from the Jews, and then marched into Judea immediately.

  75. It is very remarkable that Titus did not people this now desolate country of Judea, but ordered it to be all sold; nor indeed is it properly peopled at this day, but lies ready for its old inhabitants the Jews, at their future restoration.

  76. After which he hasted away to the robbers that were in the caves, who overran a great part of the country, and did as great mischief to its inhabitants as a war itself could have done.

  77. The inhabitants of Le Marais formed a division of the army of the celebrated chief Charette.

  78. The inhabitants of le Marais and le Bocage for a long period confined themselves to defensive warfare, for which nature seems to have formed their country.

  79. The inhabitants themselves even are frequently puzzled by these pathways; and, after wandering for a considerable length of time, at last find out that they have been travelling in a wrong direction.

  80. Boderie, a good humoured hospitable man, who, with his family, are the only inhabitants of this lonesome spot.

  81. People of our race have been inhabitants of America now for three centuries, and still we have not made ourselves at home here; we have not formed sentimental attachment to the land and to its native forms of life.

  82. This was signed by nearly all the inhabitants of Winton and pastoralists of the district.

  83. The whole of the inhabitants turned out to meet them at the police water-hole (six miles from Winton) after dark.

  84. By this you may conclude in what manner we intend to treat the wretched inhabitants of the other side of the Rhine.

  85. During these last nine years the inhabitants have not enjoyed a moment's tranquillity or safety.

  86. And, as it does not concern the inhabitants what instructions or orders the patroon gives to his chief agent, the charge is made for the purpose of making trouble.

  87. See the remonstrance which the inhabitants addressed to Stuyvesant, N.

  88. We hope it would then prosper, especially as good privileges and exemptions, which we regard as the mother of population, would encourage the inhabitants to carry on commerce and lawful trade.

  89. Great distrust has also been created among the inhabitants on account of Heer Stuyvesant being so ready to confiscate.

  90. The inhabitants of this place are also Puritans or Independents.

  91. Some of the inhabitants of this village are Presbyterians, but they cannot be supplied by a Presbyterian preacher.

  92. And it is not known, nor can it be proven, that any one of the inhabitants of New Netherland has contributed or given, either voluntarily or upon solicitation, anything for the erection of an orphan asylum or an almshouse.

  93. Staple-right is a privilege granted to the inhabitants of a place, whereby the masters of vessels or merchants trading along their coasts are compelled to discharge their cargoes there for sale, or else pay duties.

  94. There he has preached for the accommodation of the inhabitants on Sundays during the winter, and has administered the sacraments, to the satisfaction of all, as Director Stuyvesant has undoubtedly informed the Messrs.

  95. The dreadful Fire of London befel almost ere the inhabitants had done with rejoicing over the flames which consumed the fleet at Vlie, and the town of Brandaris.


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    Other words:
    citizenry; commonwealth; community; constituency; folk; inhabitant; nation; people; populace; population; public; society