country-town

It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross.

Sole Music 2010

It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross.

Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010

El – Haurá, like most of the ruined settlements upon this coast, shows two distinct “quarters;” a harbour-town and what may be called a country-town.

The Land of Midian 2003

But Chesterton found in it country-town boroughs, little city-states at war with each other.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

We began with the four great mythoi - Spring and the village for Comedy, Summer and the country-town for Romance, Fall and the Baroque city for Tragedy, Winter and the megalopolis for Satire.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

Weekly markets, too, are a feature of country-town communities, especially in the North, and I for one miss the bustle and excitement we used to feel every market day.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

As well expect to find the same virtue in London that prevails in a quiet country-town.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Once, during John's wedding-trip, we had stopped one evening in a little country-town, and while we were there, talking pleasantly by the open window, a mocking-bird, caged before a house across the way, had struck up a perfect symphony of his rich and multitudinous song.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Many tradesmen, who had accumulated fortunes in London, (then the almost exclusive province of commercial enterprise,) retired in their later years to the country-town which had given them birth, and gratefully provided for the better education of their neighbours, by furnishing it with a grammar-school.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 Various

Well I knew what touched his pride, and struck that little revealing spark from his deliberate pen: Josephine Bowen was rich, and he only a poor lawyer in a country-town: he felt it even in this first flush of love, and to that feeling I must answer when I wrote him, -- not merely to the announcement, and the delight, and the man's pride.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various