Not ten yards in front of them, stretched across a pile of broken rocks, lay the body of a villager of the district, a long, small-feathered Gond arrow through his back and breast.
We may be as unaware of the existence of those beings or of their having feelings towards us as the Indian villager is of the existence of the Cabinet in London or of the Cabinet's feelings towards him.
He had to walk about four miles each way daily to and from his work, but as the days were short he lost no time, and the company of a fellow villager engaged with him at the same job made the trudge lighter.
That night three poachers--a Warford villager and two shoemakers from Warwick--were caught in the coppice, and lodged in Warwick jail.
More than one villager remarked to his neighbour as they left the grave that he "did not think Mr. Codling would be long in following Sally Wanless.
The note purporting to come from me was handed to Emily by a still-room girl here named Charlotte, and was handed to Charlotte by a villager named Weeks.
Indeed it is not improbable that, even as regards rights of pasture, there was more difference between burgess and burgess than there was between villager and villager.
Probably the ordinary villagerwas seldom far removed from insolvency: that is to say, one raid of freebooters, one murrain, two or three bad seasons, would rob him of his precious oxen and make him beggar or borrower.
His presence, we may suppose, might be objectionable because it might add to the number of those who enjoyed wood, waste and water in common; but any one villager can insist on his departure.
The villager answered him: 'Why should it not be so, when every hour is productive to us, and we have all in abundance?
In times of contentment, the emperor was the father of the society; at other times he might be looked upon as a fellow villager subject to the criticism of the people.
Third, the emperor bore the relation to the Empire which the outstandingvillager bore to the village.
Very late that same night Wynne was seen by a villager going in the direction of the tunnel.
The villager noticed that he looked queer and excited, but not wishing to pick a quarrel thought it best not to question him further.
Thefts, arson, and murder had been of repeated occurrence, but no arrests were made until a knife found in the possession of a villager was identified as one of a lot stolen from a travelling cheap-Jack.
A villager stated that the elder Harrison had paid him a passing call the night before, but had made no stay.
Any villager or farmer with time to spare made his way to the line of the new road, and feasted his eyes, apparently never to fulness, on the promise of what was to be.
As a matter of historical fact, while Malcolm was hearing from the villager that Roshinara Begum had come to Bithoor, the 1st Native Infantry and 2d Cavalry had risen at Cawnpore.
The morning opens as lovely as the close of evening yesterday; a sturdy villager carries me and the bicycle through a small tributary of the Harood.
Fankwae" from some knowing villager or traveller passing through, but often their question remains unanswered, because among the whole assembly there is nobody who really knows what I am.
A lank villager is on the lookout a couple of miles west of the place, the people having been apprised of my coming by some travellers who left Miandasht yesterday evening.
The villager who sports a European hat or coat comes around to my yadoya, wearing an amusing expression of self-satisfaction, as though filled with an inward consciousness of inv approval of the same.
Some keen-sighted villager has observed afar off the strange apparition gliding swiftly down the open gravel slopes, and the excited population have all rushed out in breathless expectancy to try and make out its character.
As for myself, he simply orders a villager to supply me with food and quarters, and charge me for it.
I was told, for instance, that a Burman villager far away in the hills thought he could remember his former lives because the doctrine of the transmigration of souls had been introduced by Buddhist monks.
But I, looking into his heart, was sure that the villager was a Buddhist because the Buddhist doctrine of transmigration resembled the instinct and knowledge of his own soul.
On leaving these assemblies the villager broods over what he has just heard.
A whiskered villager with flapping trousers came pounding up the single street.
A white-bearded villager reluctantly climbed into the back of the car.
In Assam, it is all one to the ordinaryvillager whether he does a thing now or next week; a high standard of work or punctuality has never been expected of him, consequently he does not expect it of anyone else, and a good many N.
I have passed many years in a district where there are Jats, but the Jat villager is not the same man as the Jat sepoy, and I did not make acquaintance with the sepoy breed until I ran across the bomb-havildar of the 6th Jats in Mesopotamia.
The British regiment brigaded with them speak well of these hard-bitten men, and many a villager of Dorset, Norfolk, or Oxford will remember the Mahratta, and think of him as a person one can trust.
The "danger of coming under the common relief" of the parish was evidently felt to be real--a strange dislike forerunning the hatred which the modern English villager feels for "the House.
Three generations are born and die, and no villager living has seen the older greater oak; the younger, slighter tree succeeds to its glories.
Here and there I fell in with a villager taking a quiet walk on the beach, and leading two or three little children.
Well, then," said Old Pipes, "I wish you would take this little bag of money to the Chief Villagerand tell him that Old Pipes cannot receive pay for the services which he does not perform.
His mother scolded him roundly, but he did not mind it; and after supper he went out and sat on a rustic chair in front of the cottage to look at the moonlit village, and to wonder whether or not the Chief Villager really received the money.
When the Chief Villager had paid him, and he had talked a little with some of his friends, Old Pipes started to go home.
But one thing is certain: if I do not earn the wages the Chief Villager pays me, I shall not take them.
One of them he recognized as a villager from Elham named Hills, and the two others he perceived to be Dragoons disguised in smock-frocks.
Next day the bereaved villager is heard to execute fruitless variations of "Tell me, shepherds, have you seen my Flora pass this way?
If a villager should economize the salt of his soup to make brine for a piece of pork, with a view to winter consumption, let him look out for the collecting-clerks!
As to the small proprietor, the villager who plows his land himself, his condition is but little better.
At the village assembly collectors were elected, who were thereby authorized to demand from each villager a share of the tax, according to his ability to pay.
Burning with rage, the young villager rose alertly, and, flying at Randal, struck out right and left.
By this time not a male villagerwas to be seen in the parish.
Then a fort sentry fired at something moving on the river, and nearly killed a villager bringing in his women-folk in a canoe together with the best of his domestic utensils and a dozen fowls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villager" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bourgeois; burgher; citizen; townspeople; villager
