From the font to the grave,” says an authority onvillage life at this time, “the greater number of the people lived within the sound of its bells.
Some of them may seem trifling, but as a whole they depict quite a little world of village life.
Mutual aid in all possible circumstances of village life is part of the routine life in all parts of the country.
And, communal institutions having persisted so late as that, a great number of mutual-aid habits and customs would undoubtedly be discovered in English villages if the writers of this country only paid attention to village life.
But it is easy to be deceived by the external shell of organisation into thinking of village life at the end of the fifteenth century as being much more homogeneous than it really was.
To those accustomed to the picture of village life contained in the records of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the surveys of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries present certain features which at once arrest attention.
Outwardly, at any rate, village life is organised, and the distribution of property is settled in the main by the authority of custom, rather than by commercial forces acting directly upon the tenants.
As Betty Vanderpoel was a great success with the Mrs. Weldens and old Dobys of village life, she was also a success among grand old ladies.
The stagnation of the waters of village life threatened to become a whirlpool.
Of even greater interest is the picture of village life led by monastic tenants which is afforded by the Durham Halmote Rolls.
The dry record of tenures is peopled by men and women who occupy them, whose acquaintance we make in these records under the various phases of village life.
The dominant thought expressed is the virtue and the happiness that belong by nature to village life.
It is not for him, he remembers, to deal only with the sweeter aspects, though he knows them to exist, of village life.
Crabbe here perceives the value, as Goldsmith had done before him, of village scenery as a background to his picture of village life.
For it is no loss good and wise to dwell on village life as it might be, than to reflect on what it has suffered from man's inhumanity to man.
Bells play an important part in village life, and there are few more interesting branches of the study of village antiquities than bell-lore.
Village Life in America (from the Diary of a Young Girl).
Village life in all ages and with all races exhibits absolute standards and stringent primary controls of behavior.
Old Daniel; or, Memoir of a Converted Hindoo and Description of Village Life in India.
However, these are minor grumbles, because what you do get is a head-on description of village life in India, as promised, and some very nice illustrations.
They can be had in their perfection in even a small village; and this consideration alone, even if this were all, should be a controlling argument in favor of village life.
Professor Radkamal Mukerji has laid stress on the older conditions of village life.
The decline of village life in India is not only a political, but also an economic and industrial, problem.
But it must be clearly understood that all this holds good of the Kachari in his simple, patriarchal, village life, and there only.
In fact, this in-and-in breeding seems one of the curses of village life, and a cause of stagnation and narrowness of mind.
Backbiting is the curse of village life, and seems to keep people by its effects upon the mind far more effectually in the grip of poverty than the lowness of wages.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "village life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
