densely-peopled

From this table, it appears that the vast preponderance of crime is to be found in the manufacturing or densely-peopled districts, and that the proportion per cent of commitments which they exhibit, as compared with the population, is generally three, often five times, what appears in the purely agricultural and pastoral districts.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

The world would be covered with huge and densely-peopled excrescences -- with Babylons, Romes, and Londons -- in which wealth, power, and corruption were securely and permanently intrenched, and from which the human race would ne'er diverge but under the pressure of absolute impossibility to wrench a subsistence from their over-peopled vicinities.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

A trade with China sprang up, and its commencement was soon followed by many emigrants from that densely-peopled country, whose habits of industry and prudence very soon began to increase and develope the natural fertility of the soil, and whose numerous descendants have mingled with the native character some of those useful virtues which it seems scarcely probable they would possess but for this slight mixture of blood.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Elbe, first when we pass Dresden, the capital of Saxony, and again when we have crossed the Austrian frontier into Bohemia, where in a beautiful and densely-peopled valley clothed with trees the railway follows the windings of the stream.

From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

There is no waste space in Barbadoes: it is perhaps one of the most densely-peopled places on the globe -- (one thousand and thirty-five inhabitants to the square mile) --. and it sends black laborers by thousands to the other British colonies every year, -- the surplus of its population.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The commotion spread over the whole densely-peopled district.

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

At the same time he was busy with a version in the dialect of the Konkan, the densely-peopled coast district to the south of Bombay city, inhabited chiefly by the ablest Brahmanical race in India.

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

For myself, I love better the densely-peopled fields than this human desert, this beflagged and macadamised man-made solitude.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

In reply to the allegation that the number of public offices in the colony was in excess of the people's needs, it was said that in Upper Canada, as in other new countries, the number of public employments was necessarily larger in proportion than in older and more densely-peopled states.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

Beverly Square, was a convenient retreat for sundry green-grocers and public-house keepers and small trades-people, who supplied the densely-peopled surrounding district, and even some of the inhabitants of Beverly Square itself, with the necessaries of life.

Fighting the Flames 1859