Strange to say, the villagers of Oudh, who had profited so much by the new land settlement, had a secret grievance of their own which no one seems to have suspected.
Many were shot down, or put to the sword, or perished in the jungle, or were slain byvillagers in revenge for former cruelties.
Indeed in Bengal proper the Hindu villagersoften arrested rebel sepoys of their own free will, and made them over to the British authorities.
Nearly every rebel was slain, or drowned in the river, or surrendered by the villagers to the British authorities.
In Bengal, the villagers were helpless to resist dacoits, who occasionally committed the most horrible crimes; but since the organisation of police under European superintendence, such atrocities have disappeared from British India.
Every night his fellow-villagers will go out in search parties to find him.
When this was forgotten, idleness or economy would prompt the villagers to use the same tree or branch year after year.
In these days, in addition to his intemperate habits, he had become a Free Thinker, so that even the villagers had lost all respect for him.
It is a different General Booth whom the villagers flock to see as he drives, smiling and genial, through Cornish villages, whom the band plays into towns, and whom mayors and councillors receive with honour.
I was greatly interested, for the villagers did not know that we were coming and I was sure to find them in their primitive life without "putting on" for company.
We had just about as much privacy as a goldfish, and thevillagers flocked about us in great excitement as we proceeded to strip off our outer garments.
I do not apprehend that there would be any great danger, for we know that every available fighting man has been impressed, by Bandoola; and the passage of our column will completely cow the villagers lying between us and the river.
He determined, from the first, to sell none but the best goods in the market; and thus he speedily gained the confidence of the natives, and the arrival of his boats was eagerly hailed by the villagers on the banks of the rivers.
But, now that the villagers have been forced to go to the war against their will; and have been plundered, and many killed, by Burmese soldiers, they are quite ready to take sides with you.
They joined the villagersoutside the town and, telling them that there was nothing to do that night, returned to the temple.
They were received with great joy, the villagers setting up a shout of welcome--the friends of the men and boys being especially exuberant in their joy, for they had become extremely anxious at their long absence.
As a rule, the villagers had few complaints to make but, at the place he went to on this occasion, the headman had been behaving as in the old times; and Stanley had to listen to a long series of complaints on behalf of the villagers.
Their retirement left it free to the country people to return to Rangoon, and very large numbers came in, including very many of the villagers who had been forced to fight against us.
As soon as it was quite dark, Stanley, Meinik, and three of the villagers went out on to the ledge in front of the upper opening, made their way along it to the entrance of the stairs, and mounted.
The Burmese keenly appreciate a joke and, as soon as the troops had fled, the villagers and guards inside the temple threw themselves down on the ground, and roared with laughter.
Two of the men who had aided in the rescue had gone to Prome, with an order from Stanley on the staff paymaster, for the rewards that had been promised to the villagers and the two Burmese soldiers.
For not only was the mandatar supported by the labourers and farmers of the manorial estate, but, contrary to all expectation, some of the villagers had gone to his side--drunkards and others of low character.
I feel I must do this for conscience' sake, and out of compassion for those villagers among whom I lived.
The poor youth told his tale amid gasps and sobs, and before he had finished a crowd of villagers had gathered.
Five only were lying there, more or less severely wounded: four villagers and one of the hussars.
Hajek was making a plantation, and wanted the villagers to allow him a quantity of young trees from their forest.
He was appointed by the villagers to act as the avenger's guide.
But for other reasons, too, it was well he was thoroughly occupied, for intercourse with the villagers could have comforted him little.
The villagers loyally had pulled off their caps; Taras only thought not of baring his head.
Few of the villagershad been wounded or hurt, but one and all were burning with resentment.
She nodded, and forthwith would have moved towards the vehicle, which followed in the rear; but the villagers had recovered themselves, and were pressing round her.
The villagers would be sure to pursue me in the direction of Nimes, whither they knew that I was bound; and even if a party took the other road, I should have many chances of escape in the darkness.
The villagers gave us the leg of a musk deer, and some red potatos, about as big as walnuts--all they could spare from their winter-stock.
Though we passed numerous villages, I found unusual difficulty in getting provision, and received none of the presents so uniformly brought by the villagers to a stranger.
Whispers was certainly a clever mode of preserving the secret, for nobody cares deliberately to court disaster and death, especially among a superstitious populace like the villagers here and the Hungarian peasantry.
But there, villagers are always prone to listen to and embroider any stories concerning the private life of the gentry.
God of love, what eyes the forest-villagers along the Drau made at them, and still more the Carinthians, who often do not receive their violets from heaven before May!
The chairman of the parish council scratched his head when sundry villagers turned up their noses in the direction of Will Stoker.
When the smith stood on guard for the third time, the villagers found out their mistake.
Indeed, after the tales the villagers had told us of the devastations they had committed, I felt that we were really conferring a great benefit on the poor people.
We had our two Moor-men--the chief of whom we called Dango; and several of the villagers volunteered to accompany us and show us the haunts of the rogue.
Scarcely had we taken up our quarters in our new abode, when the head man of the place and some of the chief villagers came in due form to pay their respects to Mr Fordyce.
A few others of the villagers were seized, the rest of the roofs were fired, and the adventurers marched back to the river.
The villagers began instant preparations for a great feast.
The friendly Indians went forward and explained who the white men were, and what they wanted, and the villagers proved kind and confiding, as indeed had all the natives dwelling along the river.
The villagers started from sleep, and looked around in dismay.
During the day the major portion of the villagers came back from the mountains and woods, and set stolidly to work repairing their homes.
The villagers on the hills slept in a false security.
This phenomenon was particularly strong in the mountainous north where it was firmly entrenched and involved people from rank-and-file villagers to Party members.
But the villagers brought out hot tea and coffee, and did the best they could for us, so we did not fare so badly after all.
The villagerswere beginning to congregate as we left Burnham.
And he pointed to the crowd of villagers who now slowly neared the warlike group, but halting at a little distance, continued to gaze at them in some anxiety and alarm.
She cried aloud, and the villagers came to her rescue.
The Bourdeaux villagersat once set out for the protection of their families.
A few of the villagers were armed, but the principal part defended themselves with stones.
But though the villagers of Monestier were taking holiday, no one can reproach them with idleness.
An old man was shot dead, a number of the villagers were taken prisoners, and, with their hands tied to the horses' tails, were conducted for punishment to Montauban.
At Dormilhouse a school was needed, and he showed the villagers how to build one; preparing the design, and taking part in the erection, until it was finished and ready for use.
There is very little soil capable of cultivation in the neighbourhood, but the villagers seek out little patches in the valley below and on the mountain shelves, from which they contrive to grow a little grain for home use.
The new occupants of the church whitewashed the pictures, took down the crosses, dug up the old Vaudois bell and hung it up in the belfry, and rang the villagers together to celebrate the old worship again.
The villagers were no sooner cooped up in a mass in the chief street of the town, than they were suddenly fired upon by the soldiers.
As the soldiers led him through the country to prison, the villagers came out in crowds to see him pass.
The assassins were but a gang of four, therefore, probably, was the same band as that which the villagers had beaten off in the evening, with the loss of one; for the dacoit generally works in parties of five.
In his half awake state, he fancied he smelt the Gloire de Dijon roses that grew round the drawing-room bay window in his father's rectory, and heard the church bells ringing afar off, calling the villagers to the Sabbath service.
The villagers immediately started to bring in the carcase of the leopard upon hurdles.
On the Sunday evenings, Mr. Gilchrist gathered his own party around him, and conducted the evening service, which amazed the villagers greatly.
The other villagers also separated, each to his place, and the two English lads went to their hut.
All was done at last, some sort of order restored, the dead were buried, and Brudenel engaged to send assistance to the villagers in rebuilding their houses.
The villagers who had been burnt out were dispersed among the huts left standing.
The villagers had become superstitious with regard to this tiger, and could not sufficiently praise their deliverers.
I told them of how the Padre Silvestre sacrificed his very soul to keep his villagers from being sold again as servaçaes, how the blacks rose on Da Vega's plantation and sacked it, and all I knew of the whole disgusting system.
I knew Evan made no faintest attempt to Christianize his slaves--and the villagers were surely his slaves--and yet, white men do not often allow witch doctors to flourish in their slave quarters.
But the villagers only came to visit her when they had need of her medicines, and these had such wonderful power to cure that it was whispered about the lonely old woman to be a witch.
There was nothing left for her to do but to ask the good villagers for shelter over night.
The villagers also told strange stories about her, for no one knew whence she came or when she had taken up her solitary abode apart from the village.
Despite the energetic vigour of the Viceroy and the severity of the Defterdar, these lands never produced one-half of the amount which they would have returned had they been farmed to a number of tenants, or to the villagers themselves.
The mares and foals claimed by the villagers were next distributed, and with less confusion and contention than the money, being more easily identified.
BY THE RIVER As the hunt for the fugitives had continued all day, everyone, police, villagers and soldiers, were weary and disheartened.
Gradually, as it drew towards midnight, the soldiers went back to the Fort, and the villagers to their homes.
And as the cart had been seen coming out of the widow's garden, it naturally occurred to the villagers that Mrs. Jasher had been concealing the mummy.
Occasionally, when teased by thevillagers and his fellow-servants, he would break into childish rages, which bordered on the dangerous.
But even in Gartley the villagers grew weary of discussing a mystery which could never be solved, and so the case became rarely talked about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
