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Example sentences for "large towns"

  • But only the eldest boy looked healthy; the others had the sodden, unwashed appearance supposed to be peculiar to dwellers in the alleys of large towns.

  • I did not hear, however, that he made an offensive use of his talent, as certain money-grubbers do in the neighbourhood of large towns.

  • This system is very widespread in large towns, where the inhabitants do not interfere with each other's affairs; but is difficult to manage in small towns, where every one knows everybody.

  • No doubt this happens among the oriental Jews and among the proletariat of large towns, but it is, on the whole, exceptional.

  • The society of large towns is made up of many different circles, who have little or no relations with each other, do not know each other, and seldom concern themselves about each other.

  • Such are the conditions of the lower classes in large towns.

  • Arab foundation, there are no large towns in Abyssinia.

  • Planting themselves, as a rule, in large towns, and by preference in the poorest and most densely populated districts, the Preaching Friars were obliged to adapt their buildings to the requirements of the site.

  • In large towns, indeed, such an occurrence is comparatively rare, but in small towns and in the country, quite a number of instances have been brought to my notice.

  • The pace at which this concentration of population in large towns proceeds is the most serviceable measurement of the progress which the various parts of the industrial world are making in machine-industry.

  • This is particularly the case in the "sweating" trades of large towns.

  • But, in taking count of the criminality and vice of large towns it is not just to ignore a certain counter-claim which might be made.

  • During a strike, the dearth of coal will make a considerable diminution in the number of dust-particles in the air of large towns.

  • This is why fogs are so prevalent in large towns.

  • During the summer and autumn, cholera infantum with children in large towns, diarrhoea, cholera morbus, dysentery, intermittent and remittent bilious fevers prevail.

  • The intermittent assumes various forms, and has acquired several names amongst the country people, where it prevails more generally than in large towns.

  • But for the complex state of society that prevails in England, much more is required, both in large towns, and in many extensive districts of the country.

  • Some, who clearly perceive the incompetence and folly of such a scheme for the agricultural part of the people, nevertheless think it feasible in large towns, where the rich might subscribe for the religious instruction of the poor.

  • The mass of the people is a proletariat; they are thronged in large towns; every tenth person is a pauper; and the great mansions of the rich cast an evil shadow into the crowded dens of the wretched.

  • For most situations in which branches are necessary, such as the suburbs of large towns, the minimum provision should include a lending department, and general reading-room for periodicals.

  • But both degeneration and hysteria are the consequences of the excessive organic wear and tear suffered by the nations through the immense demands on their activity, and through the rank growth of large towns.

  • We then see in a remarkable manner how the most populous centres come to the front, including nearly all the provinces containing large towns, except Piedmont, Sardinia, and Sicily.

  • As to the inhabitants of large towns, who have as yet no real notion of what agriculture can be, we advise them to explore the surrounding market-gardens.

  • Land is so expensive in the vicinity of large towns--landlords are so grasping!

  • The first was the third and concluding volume of The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns.

  • A much more out-of-the-way publication, in the successive numbers, was the Civic and Christian Economy of Large Towns.

  • So wretched was the condition of the poor that there were constant riots and insurrections, especially in large towns.

  • These vacancies were to be partially filled by sending two members each from seven large towns, and one member each from twenty smaller towns which were not represented in Parliament.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    large building; large characters; large clusters; large congregation; large court; large crowd; large degree; large dinner; large edition; large estate; large farm; large fortune; large garden; large herd; large income; large lake; large measure; large ones; large room; large tablespoonful; large trade; large vessel; large white; largely composed; larger work; would continue