townsfolk

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Examples

• They had feared ISIS fighters and their Sunni allies would unleash a massacre of the predominantly Shiite townsfolk.

• On the outskirts of Slovyansk, a hundred kilometers away, frustration is building among some of the townsfolk.

• Vanderkool makes a string of arrests that stun border patrol compatriots and townsfolk.

• Then did the townsfolk flee, though many prayed for mercy, and mercy did all receive who gave themselves up.

• The mountaineers, indeed, suffered less than the townsfolk as being more accustomed than they to conditions of trek and battle.

• The people of St. Sampson, except a few rich families among the townsfolk, are also a population of quarriers and carpenters.

• The chatter of the townsfolk crept into my ears between the hoof-beats, and made me sick and dizzy.

• An inn-yard, with soldiery around and townsfolk gaping through doors and windows, is no place for a council of war.