How To Use Townsfolk In A Sentence
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Most afternoons I manage to bestir myself, and walk the plank to buy my bread and butter under the stares of the townsfolk.
52449_CLARA
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Traders were bringing in crates of imported goods from across the seas while fishmongers and townsfolk sold their own homemade wares in shops and stalls.
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The moucher sells the nests and eggs of small birds to townsfolk who cannot themselves wander among the fields, but who love to see something that reminds them of the green meadows.
The Amateur Poacher
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Not a few of the townsfolk, or their ancestors, more likely, have gone so far as to plant offshoots of the fruit-bearing specimens in their own gardens.
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One of the assassins was traced to the village of Lidice which was to pay a terrible price for having one of its townsfolk involved in this killing.
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Like puppets were the townsfolk led in that show they call a raree;
Rookwood
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Mayor Gordon Jefferies urged townsfolk to help catch the tagger.
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Moreover, there is the air far fresher [18] and there at this season is more plenty of that which behoveth unto life and less is the sum of annoys, for that, albeit the husbandmen die there, even as do the townsfolk here, the displeasance is there the less, insomuch as houses and inhabitants are rarer than in the city.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Many townsfolk simply will not talk about that day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The townsfolk deserve better guidance from its leaders.
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Post boxes have been placed in shops throughout the town for townsfolk to let everyone know what they were up to when peace was declared.
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Local ranchers and townsfolk would gather about the set hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars.
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Down the road a ways, the salesman sets up shop to peddle his wares to some local townsfolk.
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The townsfolk deserve better guidance from its leaders.
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By some mischance one of the great owls, called horned owls, had come from the neighboring woods into the barn of one of the townsfolk in the night-time, and when day broke did not dare to venture forth again from her retreat, for fear of the other birds, which raised a terrible outcry whenever she appeared.
Household Tales
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Romantic and political entanglements begin to reveal themselves, exposing the secrets and baroque relationships among the townsfolk.
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The butcher was fed up with the young girl's attempts at bartering with the local townsfolk.
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If they are not oil rich sheikhs who plunder their country, they are poor uneducated townsfolk who desperately want to be liberated.
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Now she's scraping a living together, in large part due to gifts she gets from townsfolk in return for her psychic card readings.
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Traders, tourists and townsfolk packed into Skipton to enjoy the town's tenth Medieval Festival.
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Take the chance to tour its cellars, where the townsfolk once brewed their famous beers.
The Sun
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In the evenings, exquisite bronze replicas of the deities travel bedecked in palanquins to bestow blessings on the townsfolk.
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Brother Denis the hospitaler would have a full house to accommodate and feed, even before the festival day itself, when the townsfolk and the villagers from miles around would flood in for worship.
The Heretic's Apprentice
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Most afternoons I manage to bestir myself, and walk the plank to buy my bread and butter under the stares of the townsfolk.
52449_CLARA
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Townsfolk stood on the side, watching the unusual spectacle but not wanting to get involved.
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It was being used as a chapel dedicated to St Mary when in 1920 local townsfolk decided to dynamite what was left to reuse the stone.
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The townsfolk being in no mind to receive a garrison, the King planted cannon against Newgate and broke down the gates but was met with a fierce musquetry fire from the walls, followed up by a vigorous sally, in which the citizens did much execution and took two cannon.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
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For 750 years or more Cambridge has (with the exception of the odd revolt among the townsfolk) welcomed this seasonal human inflowing tide.
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They were used and enjoyed by townsfolk who lived over their businesses and were unable to escape to a garden.
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Fortunately for Hippisley, the body was never found, although vast areas of nearby Lambourn Woods were excavated by the townsfolk.
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A lot of the townsfolk walked in the funeral procession to the Anglican church at the top of the hill.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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All this may play well to the sensitivities and self-esteem of the far-flung townsfolk in the rest of the country.
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From this offbeat narrative experiment, Greendale weaves a story of good, simple townsfolk under assault from authoritarian governments, corporations, media and so on.
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Soon, the sinister military turn up, as townsfolk begin to disappear.
The Sun
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However, their arrival is met with a series of odd behaviors from the local townsfolk.
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It is not surprising the townsfolk cry out; the wonder rather is that they do nothing else.
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After several of the local townsfolk turn up dead, all eyes fall upon this disturbed and destructive kid.
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What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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You have coon hunts, gators snoozing in the middle of the town square (the townsfolk politely step around him so as not to disrupt his nap), and drunken brawls at town socials.
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The townsfolk were reluctant to pursue them, for they were ill-equipped to chase well-armed and desperate outlaws into the wild, isolated regions where the criminals knew every trail and hiding place.
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This is embarrassing for New Labour, still seen as an urban movement governing for city and townsfolk.
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Clint never allies himself with the townsfolk, he's never on their side.
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The towns were compact, in about equal proportions, of bright, new wooden houses and great and growing forest trees; and the chapel bell on the engine sounded most festally that sunny Sunday, as we drew up at one green town after another, with the townsfolk trooping in their Sunday's best to see the strangers, with the sun sparkling on the clean houses, and great domes of foliage humming overhead in the breeze.
The Silverado Squatters
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The stockade performed so many favours for the town and outlying farms that it was quite okay by the townsfolk.
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The Festival will be wrapped up on Monday but not before a fun-filled schedule of events are enjoyed by the townsfolk.
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It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry.
Watershed
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Take the chance to tour its cellars, where the townsfolk once brewed their famous beers.
The Sun
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Once these throughways led to the backlands where townsfolk grew food and kept animals.
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Stunned townsfolk were beginning to return to homes on the outskirts of the disaster zone as the impact of the horrific blast sank in.
The Sun
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Every moment I spent within the city limits caused me to hate the pettiness of the townsfolk even more.
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If he makes a mess of it, well that'll teach the townsfolk to take their local politics a little more seriously.
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A lot of the townsfolk walked in the funeral procession to the Anglican church at the top of the hill.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Once these throughways led to the backlands where townsfolk grew food and kept animals.
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But soon, the townsfolk began to gather outside of their homes to view the great spectacle that had suddenly appeared in the sky.
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It is the 800th anniversary of King John granting the charters that effectively created Marlborough and the townsfolk intend to party in style.
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Former neighbours and townsfolk also came back for the sad occasion in the Community to lay him to rest.
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Basil was standing with Miss Ashmore, waiting for the dragomen to finish bullying the townsfolk as they loaded their belongings into the tiny boat.
The English Witch
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This is a film of warm sunshine in which townsfolk and tourists can happily stroll, enjoying quaint civic parades.
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Most afternoons I manage to bestir myself, and walk the plank to buy my bread and butter under the stares of the townsfolk.
52449_CLARA
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He lives in a small fishing village on the coast of Iceland, a bleak, barren place with one or two buildings, a few fussy townsfolk, and a lot of snow and cold.
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Anyway, the townsfolk can't understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy.
