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Example sentences for "locality"

Lexicographically close words:
localised; localising; localism; localisms; localities; localization; localizations; localize; localized; localizing
  1. In this locality we made quite a stay mining and prospecting for hunting and trapping till the following spring.

  2. Earlier in the year she had caused a certain amount of sensation by her depredations in the Atlantic, until British cruisers made that locality too hot for her.

  3. The sight of the two Germans poring over a map to find this non-existent locality of "Cut it out" tickled his sense of humour.

  4. On the distribution maps solid symbols indicate localities from which we have examined specimens; open symbols represent additional locality records based on the literature.

  5. Specimens lacking precise locality data are listed first in the most restricted political unit possible; localities which have not been found on maps or the positions of which are not known to us are given in quotation marks.

  6. We might be in a worse situation than this, if locality was all that mattered.

  7. Then he had desired to measure the sufferer's visual field, and by a slight discreet touch had ascertained the locality of the pain, which, under certain pressure, seemed to ascend like a heavy shifting mass towards the breast.

  8. Still does the HA¶rselberg go by the name of the Venusberg, a name frequently used in the middle ages, but without its locality being defined.

  9. He had become absorbed in a reverie on the events that had brought him into so strange a locality when he felt his arm lightly touched, and, looking round, beheld, to his great astonishment, a young Indian girl standing by his side.

  10. As to Bibi and the little ones, the Canadian ascertained that they had taken refuge in a less exposed locality near the city.

  11. The bones in the Tring Museum, which form the type of this species, unfortunately have no history and their locality is unknown.

  12. As far as we know this pigeon was only found on Norfolk Island, the locality "Australia" being doubtless erroneous.

  13. Yet the colour, quality and locality of that shell clearly point to a bird of the same family as Aepyornis maximus--in short, a smaller and more delicate Aepyornis.

  14. In the first place no special locality is given for N.

  15. The men knew the locality in which they lived and knew the houses where there were arms.

  16. I could name twenty houses in the locality where there are guns, and good guns, and you could name as many more.

  17. They may have the same object in view as yourselves, but without your knowledge of the locality of the gold.

  18. I have been thus particular in describing the locality of Snakes' Paradise, as we named it, because we met with an incident there, which I shall relate in another chapter.

  19. Reproduction of a chart published by the German Hydrographic Office, giving a list of wrecks which have occurred in the locality pictured during a period of only fifteen years.

  20. A junction box is placed in a known locality with telephone or telegraph cables leading therefrom to the shore.

  21. This submarine was designed to carry thirty-six of the regulation naval mines, which could readily be placed in a desired locality while the submarine was entirely submerged.

  22. These advantages of locality were early perceived by the English, and were probably not entirely overlooked by the French.

  23. Present Appearance of the Locality 139is now left there.

  24. From him I learned the exact locality of the American encampment, brother was one of the Pennsylvania line, and my informant often visited him in the camp.

  25. They shifted their place of abode from time to time, calling each locality Ebenezer, and occasionally appeared publicly in New Haven.

  26. The locality is about two miles west of the canal landing in the village, and in the midst of a beautiful agricultural country.

  27. The ancient fortifications there are covered by the remains of those erected in 1812, and have little interest except as showing the locality of the forts of the Revolution.

  28. It gives the appearance of the locality at that time.

  29. His father stored that memory with the verbal history of his times, and every noteworthy locality of Saratoga is as familiar to him as the flower-beds of his beautiful garden.

  30. The owner of the land pointed out the locality to us, and expressed the patriotic opinion that "Congress ought to do something.

  31. The well-founded traditions of the vicinity support the position that Arnold was actively engaged in the conflict, and a knowledge of the locality is sufficient to cause a doubt of the correctness of Wilkinson's statement.

  32. Bricks and stones of the foundation were still to be seen in an apple orchard north of the road, and the locality was well defined, when I visited it, by rank weeds, nowhere else in the field so luxuriant.

  33. A little to the right of the larger tree on the shore is the site of Fort St. Frederic, and at the edge of the circle on the left, along the same shore, is the locality of the Grenadiers' Battery.

  34. In an out-of-the-way locality about two miles north of Nevern stands a farmhouse called Trellyfan, anglice Toadstown.

  35. Onwards to Llangolman, the country is crumpled up into a succession of hills and narrow, rocky dingles, whereby the numerous streamlets that enliven this locality find an outlet from the foot-hills of Precelly.

  36. Anent this ancient stone, there is a quaint tradition which tells how, in olden times, the cuckoo was wont to first sound his note in this locality on the day of the patron saint, April 7.

  37. In olden times, this locality formed a favourite hunting-ground of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, whose custom it was to ride out from their headquarters at Slebech, and chase the wild deer that frequented its woodland glades.

  38. Nevertheless, the locality has its own characteristic features, which the appreciative traveller will probably enjoy none the less for having to discover them for himself, unaided by the guide-books.

  39. Indeed, the whole locality offers a happy hunting-ground to anyone curious in the matter of old-time folk-lore.

  40. I am well aware that it is a locality where he enjoys little popularity himself; but at least he need not calumniate its people.

  41. We found the small skiff belonging to the Brigade boys, and without loss of time set out across a deep bend of the lake toward the landmarks that signified the locality of the camp.

  42. Then came occasional little interruptions of the silence, and one could recognize a man and tell his locality by his voice, or locate any other sound a sufferer made by his gropings or changes of position.

  43. At this time, our near neighbor, Gold Hill, was the most successful silver mining locality in Nevada.

  44. There is no greater mistake than buying land in a locality of which you know nothing.

  45. I take it that anyhow you would not think of settling down anywhere in the locality of the tribes that have been in revolt.

  46. A life-belt was lying close by, and the locality was not more than a hundred yards from the spot where the two survivors from the Marana had been found supporting to the best of their power their dying comrade.

  47. The leat was on a very exposed part of the down, and the height of the snow-drifts in the locality may be judged from the view we give of one of these.

  48. The condition of the woods was described by one who visited the locality after the storm in the following terms:-- "At Cotehele, the devastation in the woods is beyond all description.

  49. Numerous instances in this locality of strong men receiving severe contusions through being blown against walls and railings are recorded.

  50. The occurrence of the “healthy season” was hailed as such event could only be in a locality where every man had to run the gauntlet for life during four to five out of the twelve months which make up the year.

  51. The name of the locality is that of a saint, a native of Bukkur in Scinde, who flourished in the time of Jehangir,[143] and whose tomb still remains in tolerable repair.

  52. Pârâg, as the locality of Allahabad was anciently called, is closely connected with Hindoo tradition, and still retains a sacred character.

  53. At a distance eastward, the Karenee range of mountains some four thousand feet in height, their sides thickly covered by forest; the general aspect of the locality and its surroundings forlorn and unattractive.

  54. In the locality above mentioned it is customary to seek the aid of one of these professional "stenters," instead of a surgeon or veterinarian, and the people have implicit faith in this mode of treatment.

  55. It would be then apparent that at this locality the chronicles of three great geological periods E, F, and G were wanting, which are elsewhere found to be intercalated between D and H.

  56. The traditional locality of the temptation is a mountain near Jericho called Quarantana, see AndLOL 155; the tradition seems to date no further back than the crusades.

  57. The locality of the baptism of Jesus cannot be determined.

  58. I asked him to tell me if there were any mark upon the neck, near one ear, and he described the precise locality and outline of a tiny brown fleck, no larger than a pin's head.

  59. The Chippewas of his own locality were scarcely to be shot at.

  60. The first discovery of this locality was made in 1886.

  61. The chase, being prolonged, brings the antelopes to a locality with which they are not familiar.

  62. This genus falls into several species, each corresponding to a definite locality and differing only in details from the allied species, as, for example, the distance down the neck to which the black of the head extends.

  63. They were discovered by sowing seed from indifferent plants of the wild locality in the garden.

  64. I knew that such had taken up their residence in the old church tower, for I had seen them flying in and out of its narrow ivied window-slits; but their appearance in the present locality was most unexpected.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.