At any rate, it suggests that a provincial town is not the only place where a sense of proportion is lacking.
You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell, and showed him genuine civilized life in an English provincial town.
Thou, false heretic and runagate, sayest that thou wilt not obey our General or Provincial Councils.
The bishops continued in their Provincial Council.
Gubbio continued in the sixteenth century to maintain a school which, though acquiring little more than a provincial reputation, was not without merit.
Immediately upon the vacancy, Cesare assumed the dukedom, with full consent of his people, who dreaded the descent to provincial rank which must have followed upon their annexation to the papal state.
Four days after date of the preceding letter, the provincial parliament of Montefeltro, and the council of S.
Since the Devolution, she has passed an equal number of lustres in provincial obscurity and neglect.
The change from independent toprovincial rank had already become painfully manifest.
A vast number of his productions are scattered over Umbria and La Marca, and there issued from his studio not a few pupils of provincial eminence, most of whom tended considerably towards the Baroccesque manner.
Of course any one will see that I might have waited till dark, and have done my searching when all the world of provincial Minorca was snugly slumbering.
A clerk at a tourist agency (in some provincial town at home) had told him all about the matter.
Burlington grew, and was long the seat of government of the Province of West Jersey, being the official residence of the Provincial Governors, the last of whom was William Franklin, natural son of Benjamin Franklin.
When you are an old woman, you will be very glad to hear mass said at Court, and not in some provincial convent.
Two high officials of the provincial government of Yamashiro awaited the procession at a convenient point, and conducted it to the spot chosen for the ceremony of purification.
At the boundary of the province of Yamato she was received by officers of the Provincial Government, who accompanied her to the temporary building erected for her accommodation on the bank of the Saho-gaha.
Again he was partner in an ironworks in Alsace, where in a small provincial town workmen, blackened with coal dust and soaked with sweat, day and night strained their sinews and heard their bones crack to satisfy Nana's pleasures.
She took all the provincial subscriptions; in fact, she took everything, from the column of news and gossip down to the dramatic notes.
Her old aristocracy was so numerous, that every provincial town was inundated with "comptes," &c.
The general taste of the provincial world has advanced but little, for many years.
A provincialmusical party is generally a fearful thing.
Provincial assemblies for the same purposes, and, still more frequently, assemblies growing out of the endless political questions incident to a nation in our circumstances, receive the same influential countenance.
To pass the time, which seemed very long, our provincial spent most of the day at his window.
In truth, our provincial was agreeably impressed by the fine costumes and by the elegance of those ladies, most of whom were in party dresses instead of masks.
She does not live at The Hague, Lucia, but in a little provincial town of Holland.
And I have later noticed that a Dutch provincialworld is not as dangerous by far as it is sometimes pictured in novels or comedies.
What I received from my daughter was not much, but sufficient for maintaining my simple, provincial life here.
Brann's most notable personal acquaintances were country- town editors andprovincial politicians, very like the ilk of a hundred other States and provinces in the raw corners of the world.
It does not excuse Servius' error of making Alfenus Pollio's successor as provincial governor[7] after Cisalpine Gaul had become autonomous, nor does it imply that Alfenus had in any manner been generous to Vergil or to any one else.
The Eclogues were soon burdened with comments by critics who sought in them for the secrets of an early career hidden in the obscurity of an unannaled provincial life.
Large parts of the arable land had been abandoned to grazing during the preceding century because of the importation of the provincialstipendiary grain, and Italy had lost the custom of raising the amount of food that her population required.
Although the Haiku was a response to the demands of the merchant class, its composers almost immediately split into two opposing groups, superficially similar in outlook to the older classical and provincial schools.
This had been possible partly because of the ruling class's willingness to let taxable lands slip from their control--into the hands of powerful provincial leaders and rich monasteries--rather than start a quarrel.
Versifying became, in fact, a party game much in favor with provincial samurai and peasants alike in times.
Throughout much of the century the provincial daimyo warlords and their samurai warred up and down the length of the land, supporting first one emperor, then another.
The provincial warrior families managed estates worked by peasants whose role was similar to that of the European serfs of the same period.
The century after his retirement is known as the Age of the Country at War, and it is remembered for almost continuous civil strife among daiymo, the provincial chieftains who had swallowed up the samurai.
The other artist directly influenced by Sesshu was the provincial Sesson (ca.
Whatever ministry is in power has behind it an immense army of provincial governors, secretaries, clerks, down to the porters, and probably even the charwomen who clean out the Government offices.
Every province has its provincial elective Council, managing its local affairs, and each commune its separate District Council, with control over local taxation.
Local and provincial government leaves much to be desired in Portugal.
Pigeons, one can conceive, pick up a fact here and there, but it would have a foreign or provincial flavour.
Recently the painters have been Belgian: but at another time they may be German or English, when the Belgians will recede to the cellars or be lent to provincial galleries.
It is in this part that the temporary pavilions are erected for the banquets to provincial mayors and such pleasant ceremonies, while in the summer some little exhibition is usually in progress.
The regular provincial administration was powerless to suppress evils so prevalent, whose roots were found in the condition of society.
The valley of the Loire seems to have been the storm center of theseprovincial uprisings, and in the middle of October[235] the king came hastily to Orleans with three companies of veteran infantry from the garrisons of Picardy.
While the bourgeoisie formed town groups, the Protestant and Politique nobles appealed to the provincial spirit.
The Huguenots possessed a hierarchy of religious assemblies which served to unite their forces, through consistories, colloquies, and provincial synods, into a national body.
A significant change was made in the provincial administration at this time.
The strong elements in the Protestant organization were its simplicity and the vigilance of all, from provincial chiefs to simple pastors, who made up for scarcity of numbers by the most zealous activity.
Now a process of federation is to be observed by which the provincial leagues are gradually welded into one whole—in a word the mighty Sainte Ligue of 1576 potentially exists now.
In short, he had deluded himself when he had fancied that a man might make a cell of a solitary room in silent surroundings; the religious jog-trot in a provincial atmosphere had no resemblance to the life of a monastery.
In this assembly of famous saints he was rather the poor country-cousin, a mere provincial Saint.
I believed it would re-act on my life, that it would people the solitude I felt within me, that it would, in a word, be a help to me in thisprovincial atmosphere.
The first of these arises from the Charter itself; the latter from our provincial Laws.
The King is the fountain of honour, and as such the peers of the realm derive their honours from him; but then they hold them by a surer tenure than the provincial counsellors who are appointed by mandamus.
The room was furnished with a luxury and good taste rarely to be found in provincial towns.
She wore a plain carmelite skirt, and the black merino cloak gathered at the shoulders, such as are used by all provincial serving-women.
He fought many severe battles with the unfortunate Braddock, and was appointed a captain in the provincial army destined for the reduction of Fort Du Quesne, now Pittsburgh.
In consequence of his services on the Wabash expedition, he was appointed a captain in the provincial army, directed to be raised and organized in the spring of 1812.
His father was for many years a member of the provincial assembly of Virginia.
Only in small and isolated New England did the contractedprovincial point of view persist.
The little Judean plateau, which gave birth to a universal religion, clung with provincial bigotry to the narrow tribal creed and repudiated the larger faith of Christ, which found its appropriate field in Mediterranean Europe.
Consider the pronounced insular mind of the globe-trotting Englishman, the deep-seated local conservatism characterizing that world-colonizing nation, at once the most provincial and cosmopolitan on earth.
All at once, however, one of the cherubic multitude pulled off his white gown, thus transforming himself before my very eyes into a commonplace youth of the day, in modern frock-coat and trousers of a decidedly provincial cut.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provincial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
