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Example sentences for "provincial town"

  • There was only one thing that I felt clear about, and that was that I should never be contented with a subordinate position in the literary world; better a hundred times be a judge in a provincial town.

  • My connexions with Lord Hertford must probably last for some years; after which, I shall be rich enough to live in Paris or London as I please, or to retire to a provincial town in France, or to Bath, or God knows whither.

  • Seven years later, I have found the merchants of a provincial town, in which I am utterly unknown, ready to give me credit for my orders without the least symptom of suspicion or anxiety.

  • The result of between three and four years experience is, that about one-sixth is saved by living, not in Paris, but in a provincial town in France, or that a franc will go as far as a shilling.

  • Nor, apparently, had she carried it to Rouen after she had manifestly foresworn vice for the sake of her child, even to the length of resigning herself to the dullness of a provincial town.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caeteris paribus; common plan; criminal causes; eight dollars; epic poem; first care; five times; grave tone; having arrived; little white; living beings; mark time; national election; peculiar form; percentage share; provincial council; provincial councils; provincial governor; provincial life; provincial secretary; provincial town; state affairs; teaspoonful vanilla; throwing light; transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana; well built