He saw the cultivated fields, varying in color like a checker board, and the neat villages with trees about them.
Three small villages were in sight, and, clean white smoke rising from their chimneys, blended harmoniously into the blue of the skies.
The belief in witchcraft, which in years gone by was so extensively entertained, has not yet died out, and in many of our country villages it is regarded as one of those secret dangers to which every home is more or less exposed.
From time immemorial there has been a popular prejudice among the inhabitants of rural villages against "burial without the sanctuary.
Lastly, since the formation of cemeteries, many of the quaint old funeral customs which formerly existed in many of our country villages have passed away.
All the villages came to meet him, singing the Christian doctrine, and praising God for his return.
The new Christians who had followed Xavier, ran to declare to the neighbouring villages this wonderful event.
The inhabitants of the maritime villages took fright at the noise of an hostile army; and retiring, for the most part with great haste and confusion into the inland country, carried even to the court the news of the invasion.
In passing through the towns and villages where his way led him, Xavier always read some part of his catechism to the people who gathered about him.
The inhabitants of Momoya, which is a town in the Isle del Moro, would never embrace the law of Mahomet, though all the neighbouringvillages had received it.
When they were arrived there, he visited all the villages with them; and taught them the method of converting idolaters to the faith, and of confirming those who were already Christians, in it.
Xavier preached in one of the maritime villages of Travancore, called Coulan, near Cape Comoriu.
Nearly every village has its ruined church, and others occur where no villages remain.
The villagesare residential suburbs of Worcester, and attract many summer residents.
They did not give up the chase, but their collection into more or less permanent camps or villages began with their cultivation of plants.
Having occupied several villages in the Eastern Province, they concentrated towards the end of the month in the Stormbergen.
The principal villages of the Orange Free State were almost more English than Dutch.
When the Boers, on the declaration of war, crossed the colonial borders and pushed ahead into British territory, they found the districts and most of the villages in an entirely defenceless condition.
The villages in possession of the enemy were at length so thoroughly fortified that it was well-nigh impossible to seize them without sustaining great losses.
Clouds of fire and smoke from burning villages showed the English officers who approached the coast in what spirit the Turk met their proposals for a pacification.
The villages were burnt down by their inhabitants, the corn destroyed, and the cattle driven into the woods.
The apportionment of taxes among households and villages seems to have been the germ of self-government from which several types of municipal organisation, some of them of great importance in the history of the Greek nation, developed.
Commerce was extinct; agriculture abandoned; innumerable villages were lying in ruins; the population was barbarised by the savage warfare with which for years past it had avenged its own sufferings upon the invader.
A little later, dense Austrian columns were seen advancing upon the villages of Aspern and Essling, where the French, cut off from their supports, had to meet an overpowering enemy in front, with an impassable river in their rear.
When he was out in the country people who had walked in from remote villages would ask me to prescribe for them, and sometimes, with an immense sense of importance, I would do so.
Now I don’t suppose there are a thousand in all the mining villages put together.
There, during the long bright summer months, according to the practice of the country, the flocks and herds are pastured, only descending to the villages in autumn, when food and fodder grow scant.
She was the best dowered maiden for fifty miles round, and though young in her teens, made the yellowest butter and firmest cheese for three villages round.
He desired to put an end to the seizure of hostages from villages suspected of royalism; and also to the exaction of taxes levied on a progressive scale, which harassed the wealthy without proportionately benefiting the exchequer.
For seven months the towns and villages of that republic had been a prey to pitiless warfare and systematic rapacity, a fate which the weak ruling oligarchy could neither avert nor avenge.
These malicious misinterpretations of the law affected some ten thousand Jews in the villages of Chernigov and Poltava.
The expulsion from the Grodno villageswas the continuation of the policy of the rural liquidation of Jewry, inaugurated in 1823 in White Russia.
In many villages the right bestowed on the rural communes of ostracising "vicious members" by a special verdict [1] was used as a weapon to expel those Jews who had long been settled there.
During the following days, from April to May, some fifty villages and a number of townlets in the government of Kiev and the adjacent governments of Volhynia and Podolia were swept by the pogrom epidemic.
Russian Poland, the right of unrestricted residence throughout the Kingdom, including the villages (see p.
In the villages the ignorant peasants scrupulously discharged their "pogrom duty," in the conviction that it had been imposed upon them by the Tzar.
As in previous cases, the example of the city of Pereysslav was followed by the townlets and villages in the surrounding region.
The ministers, with the exception of the Minister of Finance, had proposed to transfer all Jews, within a period of three years, from the villages to the towns and townlets.
At one stroke, all the exits from the overcrowded cities into the villages within the Pale of Settlement were tightly closed.
By a new ukase issued in 1830 the Jews were expelled from the villages and hamlets of the government of Kiev.
The last years of Rabbi Baer were darkened by the White Russian catastrophes, the expulsion from the villages in 1823, and the ominous turn in the ritual murder trial of Velizh.
Similar short reprieves were granted to the Jews about to be exiled from Nicholayev, from the villagesof the government of Kiev, and from other places.
It's about as fine a sample of what these Prussians have brought upon Belgian villages as any I have seen.
I had seen a good many mutilated villages before this, but I remember thinking this was as bad, if not worse, than any I had yet seen.
Competition continued unchecked as time flowed on, and in 1875 disturbances broke out in certain villages near Poona, serious enough to cause the government to appoint a commission of inquiry.
They tilled farms and built villages and perhaps fortresses, but they were not consolidated, and had neither nations nor federations.
With them the custom is: "When it has not rained for a fortnight or three weeks, the inhabitants of villages and small towns do as follows.
In Darfur, "after their circumcision, the boys roamed around the adjacent villages and stole all the poultry" (127.
One man may say, "Why should the jolly English inns andvillages be swamped by these priggish provincial Yankees?
Or a stranger might have imagined a place even less Western than Cairo, one of those villages of Palestine described in dusty old books of Biblical research.
A child from one of the villages said to me, in broken English, that it was the place where God said his prayers.
Pathankot and the neighbouring villages in the plain, together with the whole hill portion of the district, formed part of the area ceded by the Sikhs to the British after the first Sikh war in 1846.
Free grants of uncultivated land are sometimes made to immigrants (including foreign companies), to persons who undertake to build roads or railways through their allotments, to towns, villages and schools.
We passed a number of ruined villages on our way to Toul.
Here, where the golden harvest waits to be garnered, the Indian maize grew in abundance; their camps and villages were scattered here and there when the country was a wilderness.
Peru claims them--in fact, all the villages on the Marañon.
The villages are open to foreign commerce, free of duty; but at present the voice of civilized man is seldom heard, save on the main fluvial highway between Moyabamba and the Brazilian frontier.
Along the left bank of the Amazon, from Loreto to Japurá, are the scattered houses andvillages of the Tucúnas.
There are in most villages in this neighbourhood houses which from time immemorial have been called Guildhalls.
Also: What is the origin of the Friday Streets so common in most villages in this neighbourhood?
This is the France behind the front, and, aside from the ruined villages and graves, the France that stretches from the Pyrenees to the Marne, a France from which youth and manhood are gone, in which age and childhood remain with the women.
They had come back here through all the waste of ruined villages and shell-torn hillsides; all the men that you saw would not measure the cost of a single hour of trench fighting if the real attack began.
Interspersed with the soldiers were civilians, the women and children, for none of the villages are evacuated.
Under the glass I studied the little villages unfolding as on a map; they were all destroyed, but it was impossible to recognize this.
In some of the more remote villages of the country, the gleaners' bell is rung as a signal to commence gleaning.
In some of the more remote towns and villages of old England the custom lingers at the ingathering of the harvest.
The villages of Waterton and Newtowne [Cambridge] are marked on the Charls River.
The counties were divided into townships of about five thousand acres, in the centre of which villages were laid out.
The same sign stands for rocks in the Bay and for Indian villages on the land.
The little villages in among the hills are pretty, aren't they?
In Peru, for example, the Chinaman readily establishes himself in business in the smaller villages (and often surrounds himself with several wives or female companions from among the Indian women).
One feels the same astonishment in the large villagesof the north.
Some of the Warraus are nomadic, and live in canoes, but the majority are grouped in villages of these huts, with captains responsible to the Venezuelan local government authorities.
We find the rudest Indian villages and the most pleasing towns: the most ignorant and backward Indian folk, the more docile and industrious Christianized labouring class, and the highly educated, sensitive and oligarchical upper class.
They live on the plantations, invillages which are veritable cities of labourers.
Around the cities properly so called stretch immense suburbs, vast villages where the negroes live, without very appreciable resources, among the mango and bread-fruit trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
