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  • His clothes were too heavy and provincial.   (source)
  • Then they talked about provincial mediocrity, of the lives it crushed, the illusions lost there.   (source)
  • New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while, and not be provincial at all.   (source)
  • Our provincial government was still made up of mullah parties who wouldn't criticize anyone who claimed to be fighting for Islam.†   (source)
  • August bought me a new bed and a dressing table, white French Provincial from the Sears and Roebuck catalog.†   (source)
  • My mother would have been too far down the ladder for her — also too prudish, too earnest, too provincial.†   (source)
  • If they won't do anything, we'll go up to the provincial government.†   (source)
  • It was a surprise to discover that Toronto wasn't as snowy and cold as New Hampshire—and not nearly as provincial, either.†   (source)
  • How they were coming overland, making very fast progress, marching toward the provincial capital.†   (source)
  • He had endured midwinter darkness in Russia where the temperature dropped to forty below: endless blizzards, snow and black ice, the only cheer the green neon palm tree that burned twenty-four hours a day outside the provincial bar where his father liked to drink.†   (source)
  • "You know, it's funny, how provincial I am, lifetime New Yorker," Rand said, fingers on the door handle.†   (source)
  • I think not this night) and content myself with living out the remainder of my years in this provincial capital on this godforsaken backwater world.†   (source)
  • Though he thought the city was fascinating, the society, in his opinion, was somewhat provincial.†   (source)
  • "These provincial houses are ambitious," Seivarden explained, voice the slightest bit condescending.†   (source)
  • The Provincial Congress will compensate you, of course.†   (source)
  • The deck was covered in thick crimson wool, and the furniture was pure civilian, French provincial, oak and brocade.†   (source)
  • Others would be sent to cities far away or to provincial song-anddance troupes.†   (source)
  • Within twenty-four hours the small provincial society world knew that an authentic count had arrived in their midst.†   (source)
  • Her house, sold many years before, had fallen into total ruin at the hands of the Provincial Government.†   (source)
  • In the eighties he had a lot of temporary jobs, first in the provincial press and then in Stockholm.†   (source)
  • Located halfway between Munich and Berlin, in a part of Saxony known as the Vogtland, Plauen is a small provincial city surrounded by forests and rolling hills.†   (source)
  • The Commission has three members—Austin C. Taylor, to represent the Minister of Justice, Commissioner Mead of the RCMP, John Shirras of the Provincial Police.†   (source)
  • The Mount Elgon Lodge was a monument to the incomplete failure of the British Empire, which carried on automatically, like an uncontrollable tic, in the provincial backwaters of Africa long after it had died at the core.†   (source)
  • Then, after a year or so, she would open her own shop in the provincial town of Battambang, near her village.†   (source)
  • D. He summoned him back to be a provincial administrator.†   (source)
  • I was going to have Colonial this and French Provincial that.†   (source)
  • Washington pleaded with Congress and the provincial governments to send more men with all possible speed.†   (source)
  • Then she would remain a waitress in a hotel restaurant of a provincial town and he would never see her again.†   (source)
  • When Yen, the teacher, was grading the provincial exams one year, a thing with hair as ugly as yours plopped itself on his desk.†   (source)
  • After all, Blys was where big things happened and its new nobles were understandably busy Little Rowan was a charming afterthought, a provincial outpost compared to mighty Blys across the sea.†   (source)
  • Thus the national standard is represented by broadcasters, but provincial standards are maintained in the speech of well-educated families in different parts of the country.†   (source)
  • But we had no money, no intelligence apparatus, either in government, business or labor unions; and no communications with our own people except through unsympathetic newspapers, a few Pullman porters who brought provincial news from distant cities and a group of domestics who reported the fairly uninteresting private lives of their employers.†   (source)
  • "He thinks you're a provincial deacon flushed with a night's anticipation," said Marie.†   (source)
  • Coming from an authoritarian monarchy, the minister had a difficult time understanding how the legal maneuvering of a small group of political radicals and an impending hearing by some provincial tribunal could take precedence over the will of the country's chief executive.†   (source)
  • The three judges were Justices Jan Steyn, M. E. Theron, and Michael Corbett of the Cape provincial division of the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • The brothers, most of them, the ones who count, will be off to a conference at Provincial headquarters in Maine.†   (source)
  • It also blames Hutu "provincial and local authorities" as well as the Hutu government ministers who fled Burundi and used Rwandan radio to "broadcast appeals for resistance."†   (source)
  • THE BELL Tower was a round concrete fortification about the size of the arena in a provincial bull ring.†   (source)
  • "Well, I think you have a very provincial attitude, all of you," said Philip suddenly.†   (source)
  • He wasn't going to be just another ethnic pol from the outer boroughs, content and provincial; he was going to be somebody who counted, who would stand up like a first citizen of these lands in every quarter of the city, in Flushing and Brownsville and Spanish Harlem and Clinton.†   (source)
  • Stadholder: National/Provincial Ruler†   (source)
  • Don't care for their politics, don't care for their attitude, which is more ignorant and provincial than they can possibly understand since they're ignorant and provincial.†   (source)
  • And hanging above the French provincial dresser, invisible in the darkness, was a painting by Vincent van Gogh.†   (source)
  • I received no reply — unless the fact that the Provincial Government raised the bounty on wolves to twenty dollars some weeks afterwards could be considered a reply.†   (source)
  • At the same time I was totally unprepared for such affluence, the likes of which my provincial eyes had glimpsed in the pages of The New Yorker and in movies but never actually beheld.†   (source)
  • Here began another territory, a different, provincial world, which had a center of gravity of its own.†   (source)
  • ACT ONE The scene is a square in a small provincial town.†   (source)
  • It looked dowdy and provincial.†   (source)
  • narrow provincial attitudes
  • Without consideration, he dismissed her ideas as provincial.
  • To the urbane, such a view sometimes sounds embarrassingly provincial.   (source)
  • In the years since, ... educational thinkers have unapologetically called for schooling to free students from the yoke of their family's provincial understandings.   (source)
  • And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.   (source)
  • Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace — or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons — rid of my provincial squeamishness forever.   (source)
  • I am but a poor provincial gentleman, who removeth his shoes before entering the dwellings of the learned.   (source)
    provincial = unsophisticated (from the provinces rather than the capital city)
  • Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date.   (source)
    provincial = small-town
  • I mean, not just when we were young and provincials are vulgar but the aptitudes are corrupt?†   (source)
  • "These lower houses and provincials, with their accents and their slang," agreed Captain Vel.†   (source)
  • "And surely," added Seivarden with a slight sneer, her mask finally cracking, "it's always safe to complain about lower houses and provincials."†   (source)
  • Jumped-up provincials and the sort of thing that happened at Ime are both results of the same events.†   (source)
  • After the audition at commune level we went through to county, city and provincial levels.†   (source)
  • —SUMMONS FROM THE NEW YORK PROVINCIAL CONGRESS TO A SUSPECTED TORY†   (source)
  • From Grace Marks, The Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston, Canada West; to Dr. Simon Jordan.†   (source)
  • The town was too small, its morals were too provincial, she had too far to fall.†   (source)
  • They did not leave me to the mercy of provincial justice on Maui-Covenant.†   (source)
  • The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.†   (source)
  • These are the hazards of provincial travel.†   (source)
  • You are summoned to the New York Provincial Congress for suspicion of aiding the enemy, Elihu.†   (source)
  • THE WARDEN'S DAYBOOK, Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston, Canada West, 1863.†   (source)
  • She's a good enough officer, but her house is very provincial.†   (source)
  • The very young lieutenant's house was definitely not "very provincial."†   (source)
  • You mean to say, none of this would have happened if jumped-up provincials hadn't been jumped up.†   (source)
  • In many ways he and his woman were like the actors in a provincial touring company.†   (source)
  • NM: No African can be a member of the provincial council, of the municipal councils.†   (source)
  • I liked the provincial pace of the local train.†   (source)
  • Adams, on the other hand, was truly a provincial.†   (source)
  • Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring.†   (source)
  • That's strange, why should you leave Moscow for such a provincial hole?†   (source)
  • He's the official representative of the Provincial Economic Council.†   (source)
  • History had not caught up with this remote provincial life.†   (source)
  • But Ursula did not bother to dig it up because it was rumored in those days that Colonel Aureliano Buendia had been killed in a landing near the provincial capital.†   (source)
  • Beyond is the vista he remembers so well: the residences laid out like a garden suburb with large houses in fake Georgian and fake Tudor and fake French provincial, the meandering streets leading to the employees' golf course and their restaurants and nightclubs and medical clinics and shopping malls and indoor tennis courts, and their hospitals.†   (source)
  • Sadly pretentious, with a provincial idea of the alluring in their wistfully upholstered furnishings.†   (source)
  • Salander recalled something she had read in the police investigation in the provincial record office in Landskrona.†   (source)
  • My grandmother was outraged that there were people who actually dared to condescend to her—to treat her like some provincial fussbudget.†   (source)
  • After a while, instead of the spectacular Mustafa, a lady appeared who had the unhappy, tidy air of a provincial aunt, dressed in a blue uniform with a starched white collar.†   (source)
  • Tired of waiting for the airplane, one day he put his indispensable things into a small suitcase, took his file of correspondence, and left with the idea of returning by air before his concession was turned over to a group of German pilots who had presented the provincial authorities with a more ambitious project than his.†   (source)
  • A peace deal had been struck between the Taliban and the provincial government, which was now under the control of the ANP, not the mullahs.†   (source)
  • Then a few trigger-happy lads used the sign for shotgun practice, and the tables and toilets were removed by the provincial government — something to do with budgets — and the waste bin never got emptied, although it was frequently pillaged by raccoons; so they took that away as well, and now the place is reverting.†   (source)
  • But that year the North Vietnamese attacked more than a hundred South Vietnamese towns—more than thirty provincial capitals.†   (source)
  • The rest of the table was occupied by provincial and municipal officials and last year's beauty queen, whom the Governor escorted to the seat next to him.†   (source)
  • The provincial judge, seeing that he could get himself in a fix and might wind up on national television excoriated by the leftist press, promptly went on a fishing trip.†   (source)
  • Then they disappeared off to Islamabad if they were elected to the National Assembly, or Peshawar for the Provincial Assembly, and we'd hear no more of them or their promises.†   (source)
  • At the last moment, a passenger dressed in evening clothes boarded the boat; he had arrived early that morning on a ship from Europe and was accompanied by the Provincial Governor himself.†   (source)
  • My father was bewildered by all the people gathered outside—politicians, government dignitaries, provincial ministers—who had come to show their sympathy.†   (source)
  • I stepped into a sitting room with French provincial furniture, the type with twisted claws, where I was received by a native matron who did a perfect imitation of a Parisian accent; she reeled off the price list, and asked me if I had anything special in mind.†   (source)
  • Fresh violence broke out yesterday in Port Ticonderoga, a continuation of the week's turmoil in connection with the closure, strike and lockout at Chase and Sons Industries Ltd. Police forces proving outnumbered and reinforcements having been requested by the provincial legislature, the Prime Minister authorized intervention in the interests of public safety by a detachment of the Royal Canadian Regiment, which arrived at two o'clock in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • When I first came to Canada, I thought it was going to be easy to be a Canadian; like so many stupid Americans, I pictured Canada as simply some northern, colder, possibly more provincial region of the United States—I imagined it would be like moving to Maine, or Minnesota.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she was one of those New Yorkers who thought she would "die" if she spent a minute outside New York— who was sure that the rest of the world was a provincial whipping post whereat people like herself, of sophisticated tastes and highly urban energies, would be lashed to the stake of old-fashioned values and virtues until she expired of boredom.†   (source)
  • She was adamant in her determination not to allow the body to be used for any cause, and she remained so even after the honorific telegram from the President of the Republic ordering it to lie in state for public viewing in the Assembly Chamber of the Provincial Government.†   (source)
  • But many kept coming: Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician; Mian Iftikhar Hussein, the provincial information minister and outspoken critic of the Taliban, whose only son had been shot dead by them; and the chief minister of our province, Haider Hoti, with whom I had appeared on talk-show discussions.†   (source)
  • And do you remember the time she visited you, just a short time after that, in the Provincial Asylum?†   (source)
  • — DR. JOSEPH WORKMAN, Medical Superintendent, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto; Letter to "Henry," a young and troubled enquirer, 1866.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza waited for them on the bridge with the provincial officials, surrounded by the crash of the music and the fireworks and the three heavy screams from the ship, which enveloped the dock in steam.†   (source)
  • She had been with him until a very few hours before his death, as she had been with him for half his life, with a devotion and submissive tenderness that bore too close a resemblance to love, and without anyone knowing anything about it in this sleepy provincial capital where even state secrets were common knowledge.†   (source)
  • To Dr. Simon Jordan, M.D., Laburnum House, Loomisville, Massachusetts, The United States of America; from Dr. Joseph Workman, Medical Superintendent, The Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto, Canada West.†   (source)
  • From Grace Marks, the Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston; to Signor Geraldo Ponti , Master of Neuro-Hypnotism, Ventriloquist, and MindReader Extraordinai re; care of The Prince of Wales Theatre, Queen Street, Toronto, Canada West.†   (source)
  • Started with her and my daughter for New York at 1.00 P.M. for New York by order of the Minister of Justice.... — NOTES FROM THE WARDEN'S DAILY JOURNAL, Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario, The Dominion of Canada.†   (source)
  • This is what had happened: Ime Station, and the smaller stations and moons in the system, were the farthest one could be from a provincial palace and still be in Radch space.†   (source)
  • A provincial brothel-trotter.†   (source)
  • Despite the reforming tendencies of the country's present government, the town abounds both in disgruntled Tories, and also in petty provincial snobberies; and I anticipate that your bearish and carelessly dressed, and what is more to the purpose, your Yankee democrat friend, will be viewed with some suspicion by its more partisan inhabitants.†   (source)
  • It would take thirteen to fifteen hours to reach Shanghai —   (source)
  • On the table beside his reading chair were the latest novels of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper, the sermons of Bishop Joseph Butler, along with Pascal's Provincial Letters.†   (source)
  • "They are interesting," I said, recalling the figure of a woman in a small French provincial town that was her world, and prison.†   (source)
  • He says he hates the Life Drawing class, he will not go on with it forever, cooped up in this provincial deadwater teaching the rudiments to morons.†   (source)
  • In a formal address from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Washington had been warned not to expect "regularity and discipline" among the men.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, the room was as Gabriel remembered it: the same bed with a lace canopy, the same toys and stuffed animals, the same provincial dresser, above which hung the same painting, Marguerite Gachet at Her Dressing Table, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh.†   (source)
  • How an inevitable error on either Sheng's or his assassin's part could bring about an explosion so drastic that troops from the People's Republic could move into Hong Kong within hours, bringing not only the colony's world trade to a halt, but with it widespread human suffering —savage rioting everywhere, death squads from the left and the right exploiting resentments going back forty years, racial and provincial factions pitted against one another and the military forces.†   (source)
  • His unconscious was so cowardly that the best partner it could choose for its little comedy was this miserable provincial waitress with practically no chance at all to enter his life!†   (source)
  • His father was away, but the people carrying loads through the mountains formed a virtual telegraph service, which brought his father home in time to have Deo treated at the hospital in the provincial capital.†   (source)
  • But her talk was also not vulgar or harshly provincial-sounding as was the other girls'; she was obviously educated, and quite well, and this compelled me even more, though it shouldn't have.†   (source)
  • Dr. Pipi came across as bitter—angry at the women, and also at himself for being stuck in a remote provincial backwater.†   (source)
  • The Massachusetts regiments, by far the strongest of the provincial troops, possibly numbered more than 10,000.†   (source)
  • Beginning in the 1930s, Sri Lanka set up a nationwide public health infrastructure, ranging from rudimentary health posts at the bottom to rural hospitals one tier up, and then district hospitals with more sophisticated services, and finally provincial hospitals and specialist maternity centers.†   (source)
  • PHILADELPHIA, the provincial capital of Pennsylvania on the western bank of the Delaware River, was a true eighteenth-century metropolis, the largest, wealthiest city in British America, and the most beautiful.†   (source)
  • They called in the chief surgeon of Tomas's hospital in Prague for consultation, but the chief surgeon of Tomas's hospitalhappened to be suffering from sciatica, and because he could not move he sent Tomas to the provincial hospital in his place.†   (source)
  • NM: Yes, that is what I am talking about, I am talking about Parliament and other government bodies of the country, the provincial councils, the municipal councils.†   (source)
  • As would be said by the Duke of Manchester before the House of Lords, "The fact remains, that the army which was sent to reduce the province of Massachusetts Bay has been driven from the capital, and the standard of the provincial army now waves in triumph over the walls of Boston."†   (source)
  • As a provincial officer fighting with the British army during General Edward Braddock's defeat in western Pennsylvania, he had shown conspicuous courage under fire and a marked ability for leadership.†   (source)
  • I had met students from all over the Transkei, as well as a few from Johannesburg and Basutoland, as Lesotho was then known, some of whom were sophisticated and cosmopolitan in ways that made me feel provincial.†   (source)
  • He was as prominent and trustworthy a man as any in the province, it was thought, a member of the Provincial Congress, poet, author, a Harvard classmate of John Hancock, and an outspoken patriot.†   (source)
  • To bring them on board, we proposed certain significant compromises: we agreed to the use of double ballots for provincial and national legislatures; guarantees of greater provincial powers; the renaming of Natal province as KwaZulu/Natal; and the affirmation that a principle of "internal" self-determination would be included in the constitution for groups sharing a common cultural and language heritage.†   (source)
  • On June 15, the provincial legislature of New Jersey had ordered the arrest of its royal governor, William Franklin, the estranged, illegitimateson of Benjamin Franklin, and authorized its delegates in Congress to vote for independence.†   (source)
  • Among the British, it was thought that because Lee was a British soldier and gentleman, he was therefore, of course, superior to any raw American provincial who had assumed high rank, but then for the same reason, he was also that much more of a traitor to his King.†   (source)
  • I told her that if she was arrested she would be certain to be fired by her employer, the provincial administration—we both knew that it was her small income that was supporting the household—and that she could probably never work again as a social worker, since the stigma of imprisonment would make public agencies reluctant to hire her.†   (source)
  • The new cabinet would be composed of those winning more than 5 percent of the vote and would make decisions by consensus, rather than the two-thirds majority proposed by the government; national elections would not take place until 1999, so that the government of national unity would serve for five years; and finally,the government gave way on our insistence on a single ballot paper for the election, rather than separate ballots for national and provincial legislatures.†   (source)
  • En route to Cambridge from Philadelphia, he had been quite specific in assuring the New York Provincial Congress that "every exertion of my worthy colleagues and myself will be equally extended to the reestablishment of peace and harmony between the mother country and the colonies."†   (source)
  • As a farmer near Brunswick named John Bray wrote to a kinsman : You can come down and receive protection and return home without molestation on the part of the King's troops and you best know the situation of the provincial army.†   (source)
  • "Let this transaction be dressed in what garb you please," answered the Duke of :Manchester, "the fact remains that the army which was sent to reduce the province of Massachusetts Bay has been driven from the capital, and that the standard of the provincial army now waves in triumph over the walls of Boston."†   (source)
  • "The numbers of his [Washington's] men are daily diminishing," wrote an English visitor who had recently "escaped from the provincials" at New York.†   (source)
  • In an effort to explain why the "provincials" would, in their own climate, be so afflicted with "putrid disorders," while his Majesty's troops, who were foreign to the climate, would enjoy near perfect health, the London Chronicle said the difference was the great cleanliness of the regulars.†   (source)
  • African communists could, and did, become members of the ANC, and some served on the National, Provincial, and local committees.†   (source)
  • ... One of the few tolerable features of life at McGraw-Hill had been my view from the twentieth floor—a majestic prospect of Manhattan, of monolith and minaret and spire, that never failed to revive my drugged senses with all those platitudinous yet genuine spasms of exhilaration and sweet promise that have traditionally overcome provincial American youths.†   (source)
  • Two years earlier, the tourist bureau of the Provincial Government concerned had decided that Barren Land caribou would make an irresistible bait with which to lure rich trophy hunters up from the United States.'†   (source)
  • What use, I should be asking, are questions like these to an overworked psychiatrist in a provincial hospital?†   (source)
  • The war against wolves is kept at white heat by Provincial and Federal Governments, almost all of which offer wolf bounties ranging from ten dollars to thirty dollars per wolf; and in times when the value of foxes and other furs is depressed, this bounty becomes in effect a subsidy paid to trappers and traders alike.†   (source)
  • During the years of his provincial seclusion, he became so well read that even Lara no longer seemed to him well-informed.†   (source)
  • There's the nationalization of all enterprises, but the municipal soviet needs fuel, and the Provincial Economic Council wants transportation.†   (source)
  • And there, on a hill above Razvilie and a mile or two beyond it, stood a large town, the size of a provincial capital.†   (source)
  • The next day they were supposed to travel south to a provincial town on the Volga where Uncle Nikolai worked for the publisher of the local progressive newspaper.†   (source)
  • It was her dream that after they had passed their state examinations the following year they would marry and go out as gymnasium teachers to some provincial capital in the Urals.†   (source)
  • Larisa Feodorovna liked Yuriatin's provincial ways, the long vowels of its northern accent, and the naive trustfulness of its intelligentsia, who wore felt boots and gray flannel sleeveless coats.†   (source)
  • Local councils, which formerly existed only in provincial capitals and county seats, are being set up in the villages, and she has gone to help a friend of hers who is acting as instructor in connection with these legislative changes.†   (source)
  • Its position gave it a good view of the neighborhood; in addition to the square and the street it overlooked the adjoining farm (owned by a poor, provincial family who lived almost like peasants) as well as the Countess's old garden at the back.†   (source)
  • When calm was restored, Kostoied went on: "In order to keep up with the growing movement of the peasant masses, it is essential to establish contact at once with all the partisan units operating in the territory of the Party Provincial Committee."†   (source)
  • Similar radical views were advanced by the nihilists of the last century, and a little later by some of Dostoievsky's heroes, and still more recently by their direct descendants, the provincial educated classes, who were often ahead of the capitals because they still were in the habit of going to the root of things while in the capitals such an approach was regarded as obsolete and unfashionable.†   (source)
  • And then, into this tasteless heap of gold and marble, He came, light and clothed in an aura, emphatically human, deliberately provincial, Galilean, and at that moment gods and nations ceased to be and man came into being-man the carpenter, man the plowman, man the shepherd with his flock of sheep at sunset, man who does not sound in the least proud, man thankfully celebrated in all the cradle songs of mothers and in all the picture galleries the world over.†   (source)
  • Scold me all you like for a provincial ninny, you have no such actresses in Spain.†   (source)
  • A return to the inn, and a night of horror upon one of your English provincial beds,mon ami .†   (source)
  • Ah yes, your Eminence; but a word from you to the Provincial Council, an inquiry, a suggestion—†   (source)
  • Then in the end he ran him to earth dressed as a storm-trooper in a provincial town.†   (source)
  • They were Scotch-Irish mountaineers, rugged, provincial, intelligent, and industrious.†   (source)
  • They are, rather, local adaptations, provincial degenerations, and immensely old fossilizations of folkways that were developed in very different lands, often under much less simple circumstances, and by other races.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he had been brought up in a provincial and conventional home and many of the notions and much of the examples of those days had never left him.†   (source)
  • First the proud rich man, huffy at Solon, who, right or wrong in their argument over happiness, must have been the visiting Parisian of his day, and condescending to a rich island provincial.†   (source)
  • People are provincial.†   (source)
  • ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties, with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech.†   (source)
  • Early in April the Bishop left Santa Fé on horseback and rode to St. Louis, on his way to attend the Provincial Council at Baltimore.†   (source)
  • The next thing I saw was your very handsome volume— 'Village and Provincial Architecture,' was it called?†   (source)
  • It seemed to Eugene like a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast.†   (source)
  • In China, comparably, where the humanistic, moralizing force of Confucianism has fairly emptied the old myth forms of their primal grandeur, the official mythology is today a clutter of anecdotes about the sons and daughters of provincial officials, who, for serving their community one way or another, were elevated by their grateful beneficiaries to the dignity of local gods.†   (source)
  • So I can imagine him, the way he did it: the way in which he took the innocent and negative plate of Henry's provincial soul and intellect and exposed it by slow degrees to this esoteric milieu, building gradually toward the picture which he desired it to retain, accept.†   (source)
  • I published three splendid folios—Ryder's Country Seats, Ryder's English Homes, and Ryder's Village and Provincial Architecture, which each sold its thousand copies at five guineas apiece.†   (source)
  • Because who knows what picture of peace he might have seen in that monotonous provincial backwater; what alleviation and escape for a parched traveller who had travelled too far at too young an age, in this granite-bound and simple country spring.†   (source)
  • The Latours were an old family of scholars and professional men, while the Vaillants were people of a much humbler station in the provincial world.†   (source)
  • Yours in the bowel, of Christ, Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense.†   (source)
  • She yielded her kisses with the coy and frigid modesty of the provincial harlot, turning her mouth away.†   (source)
  • He must have known all above her before he ever saw her—what she looked like, her private hours in that provincial women's world that even men of the family were not supposed to know a great deal about; he must have learned it without even having to ask a single question.†   (source)
  • They were talking business; had met, indeed, to discuss an anticipated appeal from the Provincial Council at Baltimore for the founding of an Apostolic Vicarate in New Mexico—a part of North America recently annexed to the United States.†   (source)
  • it' enough of strength to repudiate home and blood in order to champion his defiance, and in which championing he proved his contention to be the false one and was more than ever interdict against returning home; Jesus, think of the load he had to carry, born of two Methodists (or of one long invincible line of Methodists) and raised in provincial North Mississippi, faced with incest, incest of all things that might have been reserved for him, that all his heredity and training had to rebel against on principle, and in a situation where he knew that neither incest nor training was going to help him solve it.†   (source)
  • Just the key; and now, the solid gates closed behind them instead of before, no sight or evidence above the high thick walls of the low city and scarce any sound of it, the labyrinthine mass of oleander and jasmine, lantana and mimosa walling yet again the strip of bare earth combed and curried with powdered shell, raked and immaculate and only the most recent of the brown stains showing now, and the voice—the mentor, the guide standing aside now to watch the grave provincial face—casually and pleasantly anecdotal: 'The customary way is to stand back to back, the pistol in your right hand and the corner of the other cloak in your left.†   (source)
  • shapes of young men trim predatory and (at the moment) goatlike: this seen by Henry quickly, exposed quickly and then removed, the mentor's voice still bland, pleasant, cryptic, postulating still the fact of one man of the world talking to another about something they both understand, depending upon, counting upon still, the puritan's provincial horror of revealing surprise or ignorance, who knew Henry so much better than Henry knew him, and Henry not showing either, suppressing still that first cry of terror and grief, /will believe.†   (source)
  • to pass from the scene of one scarce imaginable delight to the next one without interval or pause or satiety; and the very fact that, lounging before them in the outlandish and almost feminine garments of his sybaritic privacy, he professed satiety but increased not only the amazement but the bitter and hopeless outrage; —Henry, the provincial, the clown almost, given to instinctive and violent action rather than to thinking, ratiocination, who may have been conscious that his fierce provincial's pride in his sister's virginity was a false quantity which must incorporate in itself an inability to endure in order to be precious, to exist, and so must depend upon its loss, absence, t†   (source)
  • So that he must have appeared, not only to Henry but to the entire undergraduate body of that small new provincial college, as a source not of envy because you only envy whom you believe to be, but for accident, in no way superior to yourself and what you believe, granted a little better luck than you have had heretofore, you will someday possess; —not of envy but of despair: that sharp shocking terrible hopeless despair of the young which sometimes takes th†   (source)
  • And then the papers could be still again because he would be talking: about a small college only ten years old, about how there wouldn't be anything to distract him from his studies there (where, in a sense, wisdom herself would be a virgin or at least not very second hand) and how he would have a chance to observe another and a provincial section of the country in which his high destiny (granted the outcome of this war which was without doubt imminent, the successful conclusion of which we all hoped for, had no doubt of) as the man he would be and the economic power he would represent when his mother passed on, was rooted; and he listening behind that expression, saying, 'Then yo†   (source)
  • Merlin is a very good magician in a small way, and has quite a neat provincial reputation.†   (source)
  • But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.†   (source)
  • He asked in a suspicious provincial accent: "Who is the man?†   (source)
  • He assumed a thick, provincial accent and said in a tone of command: "65, catch your cabbage!"†   (source)
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  • Before Josie had told the news Anne's highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher's provincial license, First Class, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!   (source)
    provincial = related to a province
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