Rural dweller

Usage examples of villager.

The villagers would see to it that her mother was well taken care of while Amelle traveled, as she had always wanted.

Mada Joyce did some higgle ring in the neighbourhood, taking produce from the small holdings down to the market in the coastal town of Annotto to sell and buying any goods the villagers might require while she was there.

The woman seemed unaware of the effect her kindness to the Hermunduri had had upon the villagers, but Anomia knew and writhed inwardly with jealousy.

And all the villagers were there, every male soul on the estate from Hob the austringer down to old Wat with no nose, all carrying spears or pitchforks or old scythe blades or stout poles.

Troops of poor villagers from every miserable quarter of the bashalic came into the town each day, beating drums, firing long guns, driving their presents before them--bullocks, cows, and sheep--and trying to make believe that they rejoiced and were glad.

Once, when Bink was a child, a horsefly had been singed by a dragon, losing its flight feathers, and had had to prostitute itself so far as to give the villagers short rides in exchange for food and protection.

A dear friend of Professor Clyve was beaten in Mexico while trying to stop some local villagers from looting a temple.

If a villager cycled past, the best they could hope for was being mistaken for an alcoholic father and his martyred daughter.

Alconbury is on the edge of the Fens and the base has already sent men and vehicles to assist in evacuating villagers at Ten Mile Bank near Downham Market.

Behind them, at a distance, came villagers, a dozen ghaffirs armed with naboots of dom-wood, and a brace of well-mounted, badly-dressed policemen, with seats like a monkey on a stick.

They looked like the carved statuettes of evil spirits which the villagers of Hanga Roa had offered for sale.

The villagers were an uneducated group for the most part, and Hennin had dazzled them with her brilliance and persuasive logic.

Chorazin villagers on November 16, 1935, by a state policeman sent to investigate the rumored collapse of the deserted van der Heyl mansion.

In the infrequent village that the train passed through, where the local church with its onion-domed steeple would ordinarily be the tallest structure in town, the church was no higher than the squat izba huts and shacks of the villagers.

Old Man Kawai, composed now and curtly efficient, had sent several youngsters for wet sacks and ordered the rest of the villagers to stand by the rolls of camouflage netting.