People were afraid to till the land, lest these enemies should destroy the fruits of their labours.
We have seen that, although the Cistercian order had been founded some years, people were afraid to join it because the rule was so strict.
During this time the great New Orleans Exhibition had been opened, to which thousands of people were attracted.
In fact, I had to re-take the theatre, and return there a fortnight afterwards, when on my last performance of Il Flauto Magico people were paying 10s.
At noon they arrived at Sockatoo, where a great number of people were assembled to look at the European traveller, and he entered the city amid the hearty welcomes of young and old.
The muskets were all ready, lying concealed, where Lake had directed them to be placed, and he repeated the same orders that he had given on the preceding day, respecting the part that the Landers' people were to take in the business.
In the large cafés just below the balcony where the two women were standing crowds of people were seated at little tables, sipping absinthe, vermouth, and bright-colored syrups.
Hundreds of people were blown to pieces in the open but hundreds more were buried beneath the debris of their own cherished homes, now being so ruthlessly destroyed and demolished.
In Mountgrove and Riversdale Roads, Highbury Vale, a number of people were killed, while a frightful disaster occurred in the church at the corner of Park Lane and Milton Road, Stoke Newington.
In August, 1914, when the Chancellor and a very small group of people were appealing to His Majesty not to go to war, the Kaiser sided with General von Moltke and Admiral von Tirpitz.
He knew long ago that the leaders of the movement for which the Turquoise people were used as battering-rams hated him, that he was a thorn in their flesh, a stone in their crooked paths.
Tyope did not care for the expulsion of certain special clusters as a whole, provided a certain number and a certain kind of people were removed.
They had come to a great building like a barn, before which a number of people were standing.
People were beginning to tumble out into the gangway, still drunken with sleep.
From the North Bridge he went by way of the Lakes to West Bridge; and everywhere swarms of people were afoot.
When he broke one cudgel on his enemies, by his powerful arm, the town's people were ready to hand him another.
Such a people were almost as well nigh devoid of a motive springing from a sense of elevated religion, as were the beasts, the reptiles and the vegetables which they worshipped.
The country-people were horrified at the sight of the wounded Tinklers, after these sanguinary engagements.
All soon left the house, and took different directions, that they might not reach the market place together, where the country-people were assembled in crowds.
They fell in with us, just as people were going to bed, and having beaten the out-guards, were gotten into the middle of the town before our men could get on horseback.
It has just the same air of truth and for a long time after its first publication in 1720 people were divided in opinion as to whether it was a book of real memoirs or not.
Ill and wretched, I left the horrible room where a crowd of people were smoking, spitting, and smelling, and made my way to a sort of deserted public garden, where cows were browsing on the lilacs.
Crowds of people were present, yet in that vast space many thousands can move with ease.
It would never do if people were to go about the country breaking other people's windows in the name of patriotism.
People were tempted to lend, by great premiums and large interest.
On Saturday, June 2nd, additional crowds of people were attracted to the town by its first election, at which an opportunity was offered the people of the territory to vote upon the question of "State or no State.
Thousands of people were flocking to his standard possibly in greater numbers than came at any time to the apostles of our Saviour.
The reports of conditions in Utah were calculated to intensify in the East a spirit of bitterness against the Mormons, and to confirm the belief that the Mormon people were determined to resist the authority of the Government.
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