WordNet
Usage examples of "a people".
Upon such a people, so quick, so proud, so brave, so devoted, so imaginative, a tale like that of the coming of the King was all-powerful.
There must be a great good in a people which has preserved this need of beauty through ages of servitude and suffering.
Satisfied with the worship of such a people, what is your God to our Roman Jove, who lends us his eagles that we may compass the universe with our arms?
It could become popular only among a people of strong physical qualities, and in a country where swift rivers freeze rapidly from sudden cold.
For, the footsteps had become to their minds as the footsteps of a people, tumultuous under a red flag and with their country declared in danger, changed into wild beasts, by terrible enchantment long persisted in.
Also, while they could elect a new president and persist for a time, they'd have lost their credibility with the rest of Maragor, and without increased support from abroad, they could not long survive, as a nation, or ultimately as a people.
We have had no experience of spying on a people over such an extended period.
I like to see how a people commemorates its dead, for tombstones have much significance.
And, on a distant continent, the Teblor were a people under siege.
At last a people would come to him without fighting every step of the way, or splitting apart like the Aiel.
Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook.
Nuclear weapons do exist, and a people who have been robbed of their fertility may be less fearful of radiation.
Scorned by the musician, yet how expressive of a people's temper, how suggestive of its history!