"Country people" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be seen that the outcry against us was to a considerable extent fictitious, and nobody knew it better than Sorais herself. Consequently it struck me that it might have occurred to her that down in the country and among the country people, it would be better to place the reason of her conflict with her sister upon other and more general grounds than Nyleptha's marriage with the stranger. It would be easy in a land where there had been so many civil wars ...
— Allan Quatermain • by H. Rider Haggard
... took up the stick; the Tortoise held fast with his mouth, and away they flew. The country people, observing this ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... was crowded with frightened people. Many were living in woodsheds and barns. In their hurry, these country people had not brought food enough with them. Before long they began ...
— Stories of American Life and Adventure • Edward Eggleston
... talkative plasterer left the subject of local politics, he took up that of the moon. Like all country people, whether in France or in England, he had the strongest faith in the influence of the moon upon the weather. He, moreover, maintained that moonbeams had a very corrosive and destructive action upon zinc. This fact, he said, had come under his observation scores of ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... no! no room for you any longer—It is the fair to-day in the next village; as great a fair as any in the German dominions. The country people with their wives and children take up ...
— Lover's Vows • Mrs. Inchbald
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