Two or three more wigs were set on fire, exposing to shame as many more well-known faces of townfolk who acted as supers at the theatre.
The townfolk did not like him, but they respected his talents and dignity.
Through the windshield Rick watched the townfolk clustered around the courthouse steps and noted that they weren't talking much.
Perhaps some of the townfolk had seen his and Scotty's pictures in the paper, but evidently the mate wasn't one of them.
The steady stream of townfolk and students became broken; groups of three and four passed at intervals; now and then a couple of students, laughing and chatting, or a solitary mortal hurried by the house.
Albeit no enemy was visible, the townfolk of Reading and all the simple hinds that had assembled were seized with a mighty consternation when we began to take measures for heaving up the bridge and closing our strong iron-bound gate.
Other circumstances of greater weight contributed to keep the standard of education among the common townfolk very low; in some places to abolish it totally.
Instead, he set about strengthening the defences of the citadel, and levied on the townfolk for food, until the storerooms were filled to overflowing.
In profound silence the townfolk stared at the horde of their skin-clad allies, and from the depths of their hearts sent up a wordless prayer that the peril might pass them by.
So it chanced that the two Franks had clear proof of the nature of Olvir's rule; for the quays of the city swarmed with townfolk who had come to bewail the departure of their just count.
The Saracens were all gone, taking with them the Jews, and the Navarrese townfolk wisely kept out of the path of the fierce Northerners.
The townfolk will bar out my lord's foes and my foes.
All the court and all the townfolk rejoiced with their king in the fond belief that the bloody Saxon struggle had at last come to an end.
The poor unhoused townfolk of Spalding found shelter for the winter in the large manor-house and in the succursal cell, or in Crowland Abbey, keeping themselves ready to move in the spring with the Lord of Brunn and his warlike band.
When this was set before them, Turlough Wolf told his tale, beginning with the statement that two of O'Donnell's men had been captured when he cut through the townfolk and rode off.
Then the priest shrived them, and I let the townfolk hang them.
Upon that they rode forth from the town, and all the townfolk bade the crafty Turlough farewell, and gave him gifts for warning them against the "plunderers.
From the townfolk he learned that the Dark Master was but two hours ahead of him, and Brian had great hopes of running him to earth that same day.
He could play magician well, methinks, an he had the mind; and I verily believe it was he and none other who so astonished and awed our townfolk during the week of the fair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "townfolk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bourgeois; burgher; townspeople; villager
