Or why would Red Colin be riding his horse all over my poor country of Appin, and never a pretty lad to put a bullet in him?
My heart was beating hard at this great prospect now suddenly opening before a lad of seventeen years of age, the son of a poor country dominie in the Forest of Ettrick.
Why, my poor country people in their bit cobles* pass from island to island in all weathers, ay, and by night too, for the matter of that.
Of this I could give myself no explanation, whether I thought myself to be really the vicar of a poor country village, or else Il Signor Romualdo, lover in possession of Clarimonde.
A poor country, as it cannot afford to buy more, so it can as little afford to pay dearer for gold and silver than a rich one; and the value of those metals, therefore, is not likely to be higher in the former than in the latter.
But gold and silver will naturally exchange for a greater quantity of subsistence in a rich than in a poor country; in a country which abounds with subsistence, than in one which is but indifferently supplied with it.
In a poor country, the consumption of the principal commodities subject to the duties of customs and excise, is very small; and in a thinly inhabited country, the opportunities of smuggling are very great.
A poor country rector, very devout, with dark eyes like Longfellow's Kavanah is rather my ideal.
My father was a poor country minister in the mountains of New Hampshire with a salary of six hundred dollars, with nine children.
They report a poor country, with much more loyalty apparently than could be expected.
One of the most startling revelations of the Financial Commission Report was that Ireland, a poor country, cost twice as much to govern as Belgium, a country of nearly twice the population.
It is notorious that the greater part of the Irish revenue--the revenue of a poor country, derived for the most part through indirect taxation--is drawn from Customs and Excise.
I want soldiers and sailors for the State; I want to make a greater use than I now can do of a poor country full of men.
Before that time Spain had always been a poor country; it is a poor country to-day, almost its only wealth lies in its mines.
Poland had little trade and few manufactures; she was agricultural and still with great areas of grazing, forest, and waste; she was a poor country, and her landowners were poor aristocrats.
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