thinly-peopled

Libertinism was rare in those thinly-peopled regions from which he came.

The Virginians 2006

At this hour the simple traffic of the thinly-peopled country is over, and nothing can be more solitary.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

As it would have been out of the question for me to have entered upon this branch of the profession — as indeed it would be inexpedient for any medical man to devote himself exclusively, in a thinly-peopled country, to the practice of medicine — I thereafter reserved myself for the difficult cases only, and had the satisfaction of often conferring great benefits on poor women in their hour of sorrow.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

At this hour the simple traffic of the thinly-peopled country is over, and nothing can be more solitary.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Madeira was familiar to him for quite two hundred miles up, and in the midst of these thinly-peopled provinces, even if pursuit took place in their direction, all attempts at capture could be easily frustrated; they could reach the interior of Bolivia, and if Joam decided to leave his country he could procure a passage with less danger on the coast of the Pacific than on that of the

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

They explain also the rapidity of the expansion of Sclavonic colonization over these thinly-peopled regions; and they also throw light upon the internal cohesion of the empire, which cannot fail to strike the traveller as he crosses this immense territory, and finds everywhere the same dominating race, the same features of life.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The immigration of a whole nation taking possession of a thinly-peopled country, will have this effect, when the original inhabitants are nearly all driven out by the new-comers; but immigration has not always, and conquest never has, for its object the destruction or expulsion of the native population; they are found useful to the victors, and as necessary for them as the cattle or the productions of the soil.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

From Pierrefeu the diligence proceeds to Collobrières, up the thinly-peopled valley of the river.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

The sight of these latter surprised us; but we found on enquiry that numbers of deer as well as horned cattle inhabit the thinly-peopled districts round the shores of the Mexican Gulf, and flourish in spite of the burning climate, except when a year of drought comes, which kills them off by thousands.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

In reality chronic poverty exists both in the thickly-peopled and in the thinly-peopled regions of India, and therefore the overpopulation theory is an inadequate explanation.

Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921