His troops occupied the cities of Narbonne, Toulouse, and Bordeaux, and in spite of the protests and resistance of the harassed provincials soon extended their quarters from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
Sicily was almost empty of Gothic troops and the provincials were eagerly Catholic and only too willing to make a real part of the Roman empire.
They are childishly anxious to send out commissaries to take the direction of affairs in Normandy and Touraine, for the provincials are in their eyes slaves, born to serve and to obey the capital.
The Parisians regard allprovincials as helots, whose sole business it is to hear and to obey.
I have been trying to teach youprovincials the rudiments of drill for the past fortnight, without success.
It is easy enough to see now that regulars are worth little in this frontier warfare, where their manoeuvres count for nothing, and that the provincials should have been left to fight in their own fashion.
The Indians were vastly astonished at seeing them move together as one man, and even to usprovincials it was a thrilling and impressive sight.
All about me gleamed the white tents in which the grenadiers and provincialswere sleeping, dreaming perchance of victory.
Provincials are all of a kind, and the breed is not a choice one.
So I walked up and down with a sore heart, as a child will when it has been punished for no fault, and prayed that we provincials might yet teach the regulars a lesson.
The provincials disliked the idea of a standing army, and would have preferred that their defence should have been left to themselves.
Many of the provincials had seen service against the French, and understood a soldier's work, and many more had received some training in the militia, but the mass of the volunteers had no military experience or discipline.
Fort Pitt was relieved and, the victory having encouraged the provincials to make a stand, the war virtually ended in November, 1764.
He determined to be beforehand at Concord, where the provincials had gathered a quantity of military stores, and on April 18 sent some companies of grenadiers and light infantry under Colonel Smith and Major Pitcairn to destroy them.
On account of a single individual, Tatian, who had offended that minister, all the provincials were excluded from public offices.
The most wealthy of the provincials will be attracted by the powerful motives of interest and duty, of amusement and curiosity.
The provincials openly declared that if Verres was acquitted, the law under which their governors were liable to be accused had better be repealed.
We cannot but wonder, if such things went on under a governor who was really doing his best to be moderate and just, what was the condition of the provincials under ordinary rulers.
He extended the dominion of Rome as far as the Atlantic, settled the affairs of the provincials to their satisfaction, and contrived at the same time to make money enough to pay his debts.
Writing [Footnote 18] to theProvincials six years after their promulgation, Bonaventure attributes the existence of certain irregularities to their non-observance.
Shortly after his election he wrote [Footnote 16] a remarkable letter to the Provincials of the Order.
All other provincials who come to Paris admire everything," thought the marquis.
These provincials are less evil than I thought," he said to himself.
You do not know the tyranny which weighs us poor provincials down, and particularly those priests who are not friendly to the Jesuits.
Madame Jeannin gave the address of one of those second-rate expensive hotels patronized by provincials who go on going to them, in spite of their discomfort, because their grandfathers went to them thirty years ago.
Somewhere on his right the rapids murmured; men struggled beside him--now a dozen redcoats, now a few knowing Provincials who had lost their regiments, but were cocksure of the right path.
But he dined personally with such high-rank Romans and very noble Provincials as chanced to be with him from day to day.
Perhaps the sport will amuse you, although the provincials cannot of course get such good lanista-trained men as you see at Rome.
Outside, sentinels were changing guard; Roman civil officials and provincials were strolling in the cool of the porticos.
The provincials are so slow, so deliberate, so determined not to be hurried.
Endorsed: “Reasons why the provinces and provincials of the Indies be not subject to the provinces and provincials of Spain.
The third document is evidently the report of the nuncio, and gives the reasons why the Augustinian provinces of the Indies are not subject to the provincials of Spain, but only to the general of the whole order.
That, as provincials hold office only for three years, they cannot become acquainted with or get information relative to the persons or affairs of those countries.
Every third year at Pentecost the general called together the provincials and custodes to a general chapter, and the custodes assembled the brethren of their dioceses as required in provincial and custodial chapters.
The provincials officiate as his viceroys in different countries in which the order has a footing.
For those who were not Provincials there was nothing clearer than the conduct of the Court of France, after its return to the capital.
She reserved until later the giving of certain powders, only hinting at their existence, the secret of which had been brought from Italy and which were sought at Paris by both provincials and strangers.
It set forth the law of the topics important for the Roman provincials living in the Burgundian kingdom, not merely making extracts from its sources, but stating their contents and referring to them as authorities.
Indeed, to all these Teutons and to the Roman provincials as well, it seemed as a matter of course that tribal or local laws should be permitted to endure among the peoples they belonged to.
Among theprovincials was a partisan of great repute, of the name of Rogers.
You provincials are as thin-skinned as raisons de Fontainbleau, and are not to be touched so rudely.
That would cease with the visit of the bishops, and the provincials would find themselves obliged, or the bishops would oblige them, always to station in the missions ministers of learning, virtue, and exemplary life.
In the missions in charge of the religious, the same persons do not live continuously, for their provincials remove and change them from one to another, according as they deem most advisable.
The provincialsremained last on the field, and effected an orderly retreat, protecting, at the same time, the regulars in their flight.
The provincials fought bravely, but finding that they were in danger of being hemmed in from every quarter, they were obliged to retreat.
On the 22d of July, Amherst, in accordance with the above plan, invested Ticonderoga with twelve thousand provincials and regulars, and soon succeeded in capturing that important fortress.
The provincials returned the fire; a skirmish ensued, and the regulars were forced to retreat, with some loss.
The day appeared, but it prevented not theprovincials from continuing their works, without any movement being made on the part of the garrison.
The provincials that happened to be near, assembled--to the number, however, of only seventy.
The irregularity of the provincials has played the devil with the king's service too often to be winked at any longer.
You're all provincials together, man, and uphold each other as if you were of a sworn confederacy.
Of this rabble, political adventurers bought the consulships, which led to the government of provinces, and wrung out of the unhappy provincials the purchase money and a fortune for themselves besides.
We called it "The Loyalist Provincials Burial Ground.
Many joined the caudillos, and on the 1st of February the provincials completely overthrew the Buenos Aires militia in the decisive battle of Cepeda.
The provincials hovered about the Dutch columns, cutting off detachments, and burning sugar plantations in the line of march.
The bickering and despairing provincials made no difficulty about recognising it, and Barreto at once began uniting the scattered militia bands and the few regulars who had clandestinely come up from Bahia.
The route of the provincials and Indians left by Bradstreet to find their way by land is marked by various objects dropped at the start or soon after.
These provincials came from New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, and were commanded by Major Israel Putnam, afterward major-general in the United States army.
Causes that have diminished the Religios--The Provincials and Superiors of Convents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provincials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
