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Example sentences for "town life"

  • Chadwick, a disciple of Bentham and a champion of the new Poor-law, forced Parliament to interfere in the economic control of town life.

  • Literary Authorities:--The number of contemporary writers dealing with gild and town life is not large.

  • Field and farm work were looked upon with a little scorn by women who had been brought up in the more sheltered atmosphere of town life.

  • There was a considerable improvement in the following century, which affords a convenient starting-point from which to commence the study of town life.

  • As the stage-coach system developed country people came more to London, and Londoners began to pay periodical visits to watering-places, whither they carried the dissipations of town life.

  • The movement is then not merely to town life, but to large-town life.

  • Business smartness pays better in the town, and the low intellectual qualities which are contained in it are educated by town life.

  • In the evenings we had always a little feast of music, and were becoming in every way reconciled to town life, notwithstanding the loss of country quiet, light, and beauty.

  • He found that with the weighty and responsible task before him he was unable to interest himself in the ordinary frivolities of town life.

  • He revelled and rioted in the unwonted luxuries of town life, like a midshipman at the Blue Posts.

  • The emancipation of the townsmen from their lords and the establishment of a suitable form of government for their town were necessary preliminaries to the free development of town life.

  • One of the most striking differences between the ages before Frederick and the whole period since, lies in the development of town life, with all that that implies.

  • Sidenote: Unimportance of town life in the early Middle Ages.

  • It is hardly necessary to point out that the gradual reappearance of town life in western Europe is of the greatest interest to the student of history.

  • There is a town life, and there is a country life, each of which has peculiar compensations of its own; but suburbanism is a miserable compromise, which like most compromises combines not the qualities but the defects of two antagonisms.

  • I could not tell, but I was pretty sure that it was absorbed in the petty wastefulness of town life.

  • It is significant that the average here is the same as the average among Australian soldiers, who, though of British stock, come from a country as yet unaffected by town life.

  • It is a process which has evidently been much quickened by the growth of town life, itself one of the most important effects of the industrial revolution.


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