I have witnessed village halls and market-town arts centres packed with people, few of whom would have been able to travel to the nearest city. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Yesterday lunchtime I was in Apt, the Luberon market-town, buying my mother some fig vinegar (you've got to get her something, don't you?) and some astonishingly expensive nougat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nothing could get out of that spot on the moor, or could come at it, until the road had been cut out by labourers from the market-town. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Officials at a hospital in Nabatiyeh confirmed that similar green balloons were dropped over the market-town of Nabatiyeh, 54 kilometres south of the capital. ❋ Zoe Brain (2007)
Such was the fever of jingoism that had infected every little market-town through Her Satanic Majesty's land. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They walked along the road, Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree; until a little market-town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding river. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In a few minutes she was dressed, and the carriage bore her up the hill which divided the village and manor from the market-town. ❋ Unknown (2006)
An instance, in point I remember a Miss Hurste; a sweet pretty creature, and very sensible: she had from her chamber-window been shot through the heart by the blind archer, who took his stand on the feather of a military man marching at the head of his company through the market-town in which she lived. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Farmers homeward-bound from the former market-town, who trot all the rest of the way, walk their horses up this short incline. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The walker might be awakened in a new village or a new market-town by “a different chambermaid, with her sweet, ‘if you please, sir, the hot water is at the door’” Following a good wash, the wanderer would dress in walking gear and stout boots and after nothing more than “a glass of creaming milk, mildly mixed with spirits or sherry,” he would be on his way. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Nicholas Long tenant of a spacious house in the market-town nearest to Froom – Everard. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It is a Saturday afternoon of blue and yellow autumn time, and the scene is the High Street of a well-known market-town. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He knew every subtle incline of the seven or eight miles of ground between Hintock and Sherton Abbas — the market-town to which he journeyed — as accurately as any surveyor could have learned it by a Dumpy level. ❋ Unknown (2006)
How could she explain in the street of a market-town that it was her superficial and transitory taste which had been offended, and not her nature or her affection? ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the next market-town I chanced to dine at an inn with a Mr ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘By Wilson’s means, I likewise formed an acquaintance with a sensible physician, who lives in the next market-town; and his sister, an agreeable old maiden, passed the ❋ Unknown (2004)
But his strength failed him totally ere he had reached within four miles of the Temple – Court; racking pains shot along his back and through his limbs, and the excessive anguish which he felt at heart being now augmented by bodily suffering, he was rendered altogether incapable of proceeding farther than a small market-town, were dwelt a ❋ Unknown (2004)
