Relatives of townspeople

Usage examples of villagers.

He pointed south, opposite where the rest of the villagers were actually hidden.

He saw the other sentries moving among the frightened villagers, spreading the same message.

Several dozen villagers listened as he gestured expansively and said, “So when I arrived at Therinsford, I went to this man, Neil.

Before the villagers could rally, soldiers poured through the breach, killing indiscriminately in the darkness.

They clicked rapidly to each other as the villagers roared and marched forward, then the Ra’zac yanked on their reins, wheeling around.

After the last fight, the villagers were more apt to listen and to obey him—that is, those who did not blame him for causing their predicament.

Also, by bringing the villagers to them, he would earn the Varden’s confidence, so that they would trust him with the location of the Ra’zac.

Rather, he had to instill a sense of purpose and destiny, to make the villagers believe, as he did, that joining the Varden and resisting Galbatorix’s tyranny was the noblest action in the world.

His staff knocked against the hard planks as he crossed the trench and passed out of Carvahall, leading the villagers into the wilderness.

As a result, the villagers were often forced to chop their way through the trees and underbrush, a painstaking task that everyone despised, not least because it made it easy for the Empire to track them.

Wolves and bears preyed upon their livestock on a regular basis, ignoring the watchfires that the villagers lit once they were concealed from Palancar Valley and Galbatorix’s hated soldiers.

Darmmen, Larne, and Hamund set out together to purchase food for the villagers, both to meet present needs and to sustain them through the next stage of their journey.

And Roran, Horst, and Baldor headed down the sloping streets to the docks, where they hoped to charter a ship that could transport the villagers to Surda or, at the very least, Teirm.

The intrusive touch frightened Roran, obliterating everything but the conviction that he and the rest of the villagers were in mortal danger.

They were all good fighters, but he asked the best, like Horst and Delwin, to remain with the rest of the villagers in case soldiers found them or the Ra’zac returned.