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Example sentences for "native town"

  • The road ran by the side of the lake, which became narrower as I approached my native town.

  • At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress.

  • I felt this delay very bitterly; for I longed to see my native town and my beloved friends.

  • In my pleasant walks in my native town, my eye happened to fall on a beautiful house, untenanted in a neighbourhood so quiet that every other house seemed to be the same.

  • With this insignificant amount, the result of five years in a rich country, and something like one hundred and twenty pounds standing to my account, I arrived that evening at my native town.

  • After closing with Mr. Morgan, I visited my native town, Dunfermline, and at that time made the town a gift of public baths.

  • I had followed in his footsteps by giving my native town a library--its foundation stone laid by my mother--so that this public library was really my first gift.

  • The scene of the story is laid in Stavenhagen, or Stemhagen as it is called in Plattdeutsch, Reuter's native town.

  • Now as concerns Droz the watchmaker, he was by birth a Neufchatelois; he had served under many flags, amongst them the French, and at last had come to a halt in my native town, where he had married a widow and settled.

  • Then I went home to my native town, ostensibly to advertise my legal diploma, but really to look once more upon her from whom I had been so long absent.

  • When, therefore, I returned to my native town, after an absence of three years, I found that a certain renommee had preceded me.

  • Nowadays, a whole street in my native town is called after my name: would it not have been better if all I had there were a simple hut?

  • The publication of my legal diploma in the county court was a sufficiently dignified excuse for a visit to my native town.

  • Never would I again, with my own consent, set foot in my native town; I would rather cause an earthquake to swallow it, if it stood in my power.

  • It was quite terrible for him to be compelled to admit that in my native town, where everybody knew everybody else, and took the greatest interest in his fortunes, I was unanimously considered a castaway.

  • My youthful fancy kindled at his romantic story of the knight who had been at feud with my native town.

  • I do not think anyone will charge me with having forgotten my native town up there.

  • Yes, my native town is so dear to me that I would rather ruin it than see it flourishing upon a lie.

  • I have always loved my native town as a man only can love the home of his youthful days.

  • I will show whether I love my native town.

  • My school-boy friend gave me a cordial greeting; That honest lawyer bade me welcome, too, And doted on my progress and the advice He gave me ere I left my native town.

  • At home, however, within the narrow precincts of my native town, there were effects of the measure which, though comparatively trifling, I liked considerably worse than the suppression of the bishoprics.

  • An expedition was sent against him, and he was utterly routed in an engagement which took place near his native town.

  • Who is substituting other Means of Dissipation in my native Town in Lieu of Theatrical Entertainments &c &c?

  • Shall we not again see that Sobriety of Manners, that Temperance, Frugality, Fortitude and other manly Virtues wch were once the Glory and Strength of my much lov'd native Town.

  • Such a thing may seem impossible to those who have not lived in a native town, but those who have, know that nothing is incredible to its vast curiosity, its still more vast ignorance.

  • But at last I caught sight of one of those marvellous drawings made by the sun in the window of the Post Office of my native town.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    added hastily; applied science; bristol board; dear governor; died from; had won; hath called; month since; native cavalry; native church; native city; native cloth; native country; native craft; native industry; native life; native name; native names; native soldiers; native town; native well; native white; native women; sheet iron; what right; worth giving