1 The bitter weather had driven every one indoors and Ethan had the long rural street to himself.
2 The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
3 The sight of so much hurrying made Scarlett, fresh from rural leisure and quiet, almost breathless, but she liked it.
4 Tonight when Atlanta was so quiet, she could close her eyes and imagine she was back in the rural stillness of Tara and that life was unchanged, unchanging.
5 The mail service in the South was uncertain and in the rural districts there was none at all.
6 Country negroes flocked into the cities, leaving the rural districts without labor to make the crops.
7 The fragrance of the late blossoms seemed an emanation of the tranquil scene, a landscape tutored to the last degree of rural elegance.
8 The auto, the telephone, rural free delivery; they're bringing the farmers in closer touch with the town.
9 Cleric had explained to us that 'patria' here meant, not a nation or even a province, but the little rural neighbourhood on the Mincio where the poet was born.
10 Manifestly not, since some work is easy and some hard, and we should have millions of rural mail carriers, and no coal miners.
11 It was a scene of bustle and life, as if the whole vicinity had poured forth its inhabitants to a village wake, or rural feast.
12 He was one of a class rapidly becoming extinct in Wessex, filling at present in the rural world the place which, during the last century, the dodo occupied in the world of animals.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 13 The rural world was not ripe for him.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 14 Planting himself before his dispatch-box, he rubbed his hands with a satisfaction worthy of an incorruptible rural magistrate when adjourning for luncheon; after which he extracted from the receptacle a bundle of papers.
15 To Chichikov's curses at Selifan for not having drawn out of the way with more alacrity a rural constable with moustaches of the length of an arshin added his quota.