These represented a population of about five hundred souls, of whom about two hundred were warriors.
Between you and me, Bob," said Colonel Meredith, "an accurate count of our Southern population would proclaim a villain or two here and there.
An hour later the entire male population of The Camp was dragging Swamp Brook for what they so dreaded to find.
Why should the puny and prejudicedpopulation of Texas have two votes in the Senate when the hordes of New York have but two?
In England also, in that period there were more than twenty cathedrals in the course of construction, some of them in places as small as Wells, whose population never exceeded four thousand.
The tide of population passing down the Ohio, or through the States, had crossed the Mississippi into the Missouri country, and Missouri, in 1818, petitioned Congress for permission to form a Constitution and enter the Union.
Then probably began the Feudal system, which practically abolished the ancient form of slavery, and in its place the lower classes of the population were put in the semi-servile condition of serfs and villeins to their Feudal Lords.
A permanent national bank currency, secured by government bonds, must have a permanent debt to rest upon, and if the bank currency is to increase with population and business the debt must also increase.
The increase of whitepopulation in the South was very small compared to that of the North.
How could the rebel states make war, with a population of negroes sure to rise against their masters?
The population of Beatty had so changed in one generation that in 1949 when the town wanted to put on a celebration, not a citizen could be found who knew Beatty's first name.
With a population of 20--half of it his own progeny, he felt that civilization was closing in on him.
In their enthusiasm they forget that they only have a handful of inexperienced souls to guide, and attempt to deal with their work as if they had a large population to regulate!
Tracy, the learned statistician of the Health Department, has smoothed the rebellious kinks out of death-rates and population statistics, as of so many other knotty problems which we have worked out together.
Half the tenement-house population is always moving, and to the children the word "home" has no meaning.
It was the excitement, I reasoned, the inrush of population from everywhere; probably everybody kept boarders, more every day; had to extend their tables to seat them.
There was a large population out on Long Island that traded in Brooklyn stores and could be reached in that way.
Owing to tunnels, cuts, and bridges, the construction of the Swiss railway system has been costly; Mulhall's statistics give Switzerland a higher ratio of railway capital to population than any other country in Europe.
Not many days after this occurrence, and while it yet remained shrouded in mystery, another murder roused the excitable population of Paris to a frenzy of anxiety and horror.
It was a momentous event in the life of the population of the coastal village when the Bird of Paradise came in.
The population rushed out of their huts by hundreds.
A present from the whole population followed that of the Ranee, coupled with earnest entreaties that Campbell would resume his position at Dorjiling; and on the following day forty coolies mustered to arrange the baggage.
The population is mostly Mahometan; the site, though beautiful and varied, is unhealthy for Europeans.
The population on this, the north side of the Ryott, consists principally of Sikkim Bhoteeas and Tibetans, while the opposite is peopled by Lepchas.
Next day the military and civil population set out to find who could possibly have told the Turkish destroyers that such a place as Odessa existed.
German rank and fashion follow in their wake, quintupling the population in less than sixty years--and the reputation and position of the town are made.
The whole population of the town and of all the surrounding district crowded into the streets, to receive the ruler of the land with shouts of welcome.
The more or less Protestant colouring given to the refugee establishment was scarcely palatable to the very orthodox population of Bar.
The capital of Upper Canada at that time had a population of only 1,000, and was weakly garrisoned.
Tertullian tells how the population of Carthage, excited against the Christians, sought to obtain from Hilarianus, governor of Africa, the destruction of their graves.
To be a successful beggar in Canada, one must be able to speak French, for Quebec is one of the main tramp districts, and the local population uses this language principally.
No one can tell exactly what this tramp population numbers, but I think it safe to say that there are not less than sixty thousand in this country.
I estimate the professional tramp population at about sixty thousand, a third of whom are generally on the move.
During my journey through the Vitebsk government I heard of them right and left, and it is this district that contributes largely to the criminal population of St. Petersburg.
They are mixed up with the regular working populationof the town and have no particular sign by which a stranger could distinguish them, but their business is entirely criminal.
I have tried to show that a large number of them eat and wear things which certainly cost somebody considerable money, but a careful census of the vagabond population alone can estimate the amount.
As the surpluspopulation increased, migrations were made to the wild regions of Vermont and New Hampshire.
As the rider entered the one street, however, a more definite cause of excitement drew the loose population toward the centre of the road.
If an English peasant knows nothing else, he knows the Bible and very likely Bunyan; but a Roman Catholic population has little commerce with that pure fountain of style.
This entire state of things is due to the fact that positive Christian belief, and the practice of religious observances, are everywhere in Ireland very general, and among the Catholic population almost universal.
The present population of Coutances amounts to between eight and nine thousand inhabitants.
Briquebec is an extensive parish, situated about seven miles to the south of Valognes, with a population of four thousand five hundred inhabitants, a weekly market on Mondays, and several considerable fairs.
The city of Séez, though dignified by being the seat of a bishopric, is in itself small and unimportant, its population not exceeding five thousand five hundred inhabitants.
The inconveniences attendant upon such a mode of administering justice, became of course the more heavily felt, in proportion as the country increased in population and civilization.
The present population of the town amounts to about two hundred and fifty inhabitants, who derive their chief support from the fishery.
The present population consists of about three thousand four hundred inhabitants, whose only trade is a trifling manufactory of lace.
Its population is estimated at about ten thousand inhabitants.
Its population consists of about seven thousand inhabitants.
