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Example sentences for "provincial life"

  • You may be a great physician," said Gatien, "but you are ignorant of provincial life.

  • This is one of the natural results of a provincial life.

  • Conversation is bounded on the south by remarks on the intrigues lying hidden under the stagnant water of provincial life, on the north by proposed marriages, on the west by jealousies, and on the east by sour remarks.

  • The sous-prefet, one Vicomte de Chargeboeuf, was delighted to find in Madame de la Baudraye's drawing-room a sort of oasis where there was a truce to provincial life.

  • He became the keynote of the impulse which caused the regeneration of provincial life, almost ruined by the wars of the Fronde.

  • David stood overcome by the emotion that is only felt to the full at his age, and more especially in such a position as his --the friends were like two young swans with wings unclipped as yet by the experiences of provincial life.

  • Lucien was tired of the shabbiness of provincial life, and weary of the sordid frugality that looked on a five-franc piece as a fortune, but he bore the hardships and the pinching thrift without grumbling.

  • She was weary to disgust of provincial life.

  • No retail shopkeeper can pass with impunity from his perpetual chatter into dead silence, from his Parisian activity to the stillness of provincial life.

  • If, by chance, some ambitious stranger settles there, he soon falls into the inertia of the region, and tunes himself to the dreadful key of provincial life.

  • Naturally, unless one falls in with the Filipino devotion to dancing, there are few sources of so-called amusement in provincial life.

  • But to a woman who loves her home and is employed, provincial life here is a boon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    again the; boys and; broad white; charmed life; cold feet; could draw; familiar voice; five shekels; general rules; good field; great central; hundred lashes; noble birth; normal condition; physical health; provincial council; provincial councils; provincial life; provincial secretary; provincial town; recede from; shortened sail; stable government; sudden rush; wash them; well taken