Tumble" is probably the rural version of "tumulus.
XXXI And now to trace the Hickstead and Bolney route from Hand Cross, that parting of the ways overlooking the most rural parts of Sussex.
XXXII This route to Brighton is singularly rural and lovely, and particularly beautiful in the way of copses and wooded hollows, whence streamlets trickle away to join the river Adur.
Until the Polish rebellion of 1863 the Jews were permitted to own real estate, not only in cities but also in rural districts.
At the same time, the Jewish rural population within the limits of the "Pale of Settlement" grew considerably.
John Greenleaf Whittier The Forest Maid O fairest of therural maids!
No show of bolts and bars Now fie on foolish love, it not befits Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white O fairest of the rural maids!
I should imagine that =Brancaster=, before golf was introduced there, must have been quite one of the quietest and most rural spots to be found in England.
It lies on a little unfrequented by-road, and is as utterly rural and peaceful a spot as could be found anywhere.
My family, who have always dwelt in the country, and have followed the customs and simple ways of rural life, are disgraced.
The hero of that play is estranged from his paternal hearth, with its ancestral traditions and from the simple rural life and the innocent tender love of his youth.
In one of those autumns which the Duchess of Kent and her daughter spent at Ramsgate--not so rural as it had been a dozen years before, but still a quiet enough retreat--they received a visit from the King and Queen of the Belgians.
Green lanes led but to more rural villages, farms and manor-houses.
Still, both at Kensington and in the depths of rural Coburg, there was a little flutter, not only of gladness, but of subdued expectation.
I believe the life of any blacksmith, especially a rural one, would afford materials for a highly poetical history.
This work is well known to English agriculturists from an English translation which appeared in 1845 (Boussingault's 'Rural Economy,' translated by G.
Accompanying John Pennycuick and his dog Shock in their wanderings, we get a pleasant view of rural England, quiet and peaceful then, as it is now, and of London with its quaint old streets and houses.
And onward they went, with such rapidity that they very soon arrived at Rural Retreat, where they dismounted, and were united with all the solemnities that usually attended such divine operations.
And onward they went, with such rapidity that they very soon arrived at Rural Retreat, where they dismounted, and were united with all the solemnities that usually attend such divine operations.
The conditions of Scottish life are generally so strenuous, and the compulsions of "He that will not work, neither shall he eat" so absolute that we cannot afford more than one local Do-Nothing in a village or rural community.
He is, indeed, only seen to perfection in a village orrural parish.
Not only is her salary low, but a mistress in a rural school often has to live in a state of semi-isolation from social and intellectual activities.
Thus it is that rural schools which should cost more for up-keep than large urban schools, work out at a smaller figure per scholar.
There is an obvious connection between the status of the agricultural labourer and the inefficiency of rural schools.
In some rural areas, the conditions are not so satisfactory.
The vast majority of rural schools have only one certificated teacher on the staff, and in hundreds of rural schools the head teacher is not certificated.
In order to keep the cost of maintenance as low as possible, however, the remuneration offered to teachers in rural schools is so small as to be a national disgrace.
The conditions under which a teacher works in a school in a rural district are so unsatisfactory that they deserve special mention.
Another factor that must be borne in mind is that these rural schools, being small, should, to secure efficiency, be proportionately expensive for up-keep.
No, my daughter Andrea will not be that sort, though reared in a rural den at Taverney.
While speaking she scribbled a couple of lines on paper which she handed the nun, whispering: "Post two archers of the ruralguard in the corridor, and let not a soul issue without my leave.
Nearing his destination, he had left the railway-line, and was completing the last few leagues of his journey by coach, when he stopped for refreshment at a small pulperia, or rural inn.
In 1802 a rapid series of promotion created him Guarda General de la Campana, or guardian officer general of the rural districts.
It is at this placid rural centre that the macadamised road ends.
It is comforting to reflect that even the most simple of these rural chains of the affections continues with links far less unbroken than those of war!
If you desire to watch the moods of this rural Banda Oriental, ride out to mount one of the higher shoulders of the downland, and wait there, either in the saddle or out of it.
On the road a rural dean consulted him upon the case of a girl with second sight and a terrific tongue.
The bishop probably saved her from the vengeance of this rural dean, for witch-burning was not unknown even then, as Walter de Map witnesses.
Mr. Marsden availed himself of the grant, and his farm soon exhibited those marks of superior management which might have been looked for by all who were acquainted with the energy of his character and his love of rural pursuits.
His love of the country and of rural scenes gave a strong colouring, and great originality to his preaching as well as to his own religious character.
They are the most satisfactory of all the rural animals.
Despite the squalid clothes of the peasants, there are many picturesque aspects of rural life.
London and the ruraldistricts were not on their present level.
It was only to be expected that the prominent agriculturists of rural districts would be figuratively represented on their gravestones, and this will be found to be the case in a number of instances.
Gravestone hunting implies long walks in rural scenes, with all the expectations, none of the risks, and few of the disappointments of other pursuits.
Regarding this as our ideal, the primitive work which we find in rural localities must be pronounced degenerated art.
Even when the rude system of cutting into the stone ceased to be practised and relief carving became general, grossness of idea seems to have survived in many rural parishes.
The whole of the originals are to be found in the neighbouring churchyards of Shorne and Chalk, two rural parishes on the Rochester Road, and exhibit with all the fidelity possible the craftsmanship of the village sculptors.
The mildness of Cerroni was unequal to the times; and after a faint struggle, he retired with a fair reputation and a decent fortune to the comforts of rural life.
It was a perfectly rural scene, and the still summer day gave it a charm for which its meagre elements but half accounted.
It was a crude method of dealing with the problem; it robbed the main roads of every vestige of rural character, and it added new dangers and checks to street traffic.
When the railway enabled the village shopkeeper to satisfy promptly all local requirements, in winter as readily as in summer, the whole conditions of rurallife were changed.
There were the great fairs to which merchants came from London, and where the rural dealer laid in his annual stores of sugar, stationery, cutlery and muslin.
In these conditions many a village or hamlet became isolated until the roads were again available for traffic, and rural households prepared for the winter as they would have taken precautions against an impending siege.
The time may come when it will not be necessary for the rural resident to go to the shops in even the nearest town.
If he does--" She hurried away without finishing the sentence, and was presently taking a lesson from old Halsey, in what is fast becoming one of the rarest of the rural arts.
For Prince Max of Baden had just made his famous peace offer of October 5th, and even in rural Brookshire there was a thrilling sense of opening skies, of some loosening of those iron bonds in which the world had lain for four years.
