I am a fellow townsmanof yours, though you did not know it: aye, a boy in your old school, switched by your old master.
On Friday morning the wind had sunk to passing gusts that powdered your coat with white, and the sun was shining on one of those winter landscapes no townsman can imagine and no countryman ever forgets.
Mr. Hopps earned the ill-will of the Glen for ever by criticising the doctor's dress, but indeed it would have filled any townsman with amazement.
Then again one of the bishop’s servants who had struck a townsman in the eye with a dagger almost unto death, could not be punished because he had been standing within the Close gate, between the cemetery and the city.
Moreover, he added, no townsman ventures to object to a person being admitted to compurgation, for fear of being murdered or at least maimed.
If a merchant from a certain town failed to pay a debt, a fellow-townsman might be seized where the debt was due.
He began to preach in a simple way, and before long a rich fellow-townsman resolved to sell all and give to the poor, and follow Francis' example.
Peer was enough of a townsman now to have laid in a few little presents to give his sister; but the girl, who had not been used to such doings, had nothing for him, and wept a good deal when she realised it.
Together they carried the box up through the town, and Peer was so much of a townsman already that he felt a little ashamed to find himself walking through the streets, holding one end of a trunk, with a peasant-girl at the other.
A new test of superiority was applied, a test of material prosperity, and by this measure the townsman was judged by his neighbours and naturally judged himself.
If a townsman struck the mayor and was too harshly punished the friends of the prisoner might call a jury “of the discreetest and stoutest men of the city,” who should ordain a just penalty.
The average townsman is more developed morally as well as intellectually for good and for evil.
In actual attainment the townsmanis somewhat more advanced than the countryman.
In positive attainments of conscience, virtue, and vice, the townsman shows considerable advance.
Setting aside that picked intelligence which flows to the town to compete successfully for intellectual employment, there can be no question but that the townsman has a larger superficial knowledge of the world and human nature.
The townsman has a more developed consciousness, his intelligence is constantly stimulated in a thousand ways by larger and more varied society, and by a more diversified and complex economic environment.
Marvin Towne's name was received with laughter and such jeers as the New England breed of farmer and townsman has rendered his own, and at which he is a genius surpassed by none.
It's no joke to have that townsman of yours; Jethro Bass, opposed to you.
Coniston was proud of Jethro, prouder of him than ever since his last great victory in the Legislature, which brought the Truro Railroad through to Harwich and settled their townsman more firmly than ever before in the seat of power.
She had come honestly enough by her gifts, her father having married the daughter of an able townsman of Salem, in the Massachusetts colony, when he had gone north after his first great success in court.
A battle royal raged till nightfall, at which time the fray ceased, no one scholar ortownsman being killed or mortally wounded or maimed.
There was a rush of volunteers, and the townsman was picked up and hauled off to his house, his late assailant doing his best to help.
After a little the men went back to drinking, but half an hour after a white-faced townsman burst in on them.
He broke into the ring that had been formed in the middle of the street for a station man and a townsman to settle an argument on the pronunciation of the township’s name.
I have done so in the effort to convince the townsman of something that he has never known.
It takes a townsman to relish the manifold and exquisite joys of the country.
Chiappino is best understood by comparison with Luitolfo, his fellow-townsman and friend.
A Mantuan poet of the name of Sordello is mentioned by Dante in the "Purgatorio," where he is supposed to be recognized as a fellow-townsman by Virgil.
The townsman thinks it is himself who cheats the peasant, but I verily believe he is the party who is cheated.
When a townsman sets up trade as a merchant, his principal aim is to get as many country-people to connect themselves with him as possible, who are to supply him with their produce.
As they passed near me, the ladder being inclined forward, from the steepness of the street, I recognized the features of my townsman and acquaintance, Daoiz, livid with approaching death.
Pelle was not slow in deducing the consequences--was there not already a townsman standing and watching him at play?
Mr. Hopps earned the ill-will of the Glen forever by criticising the doctor’s dress, but indeed it would have filled any townsman with amazement.
Our fellow-townsman knew his sister’s needs better than we, and he chose to leave her needy.
When the townsman goes to the country he says the people are savages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "townsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bourgeois; burgher; citizen; local; townspeople; villager
