Provincial in a sentence

Definition of Provincial

• And indeed there is no provincial life richer in material if only one knew how to get at it.
• Those who before were content with the provincial towns now build houses in Tehran.
• They were in three divisions, the regulars in the centre, the provincial troops on either flank.
• But in the country there is but one kind of woman, and she, poor thing, is the provincial woman.
• What had I to do with them, this elegant dust, these moulds of provincial fashion?
• But Mr. Rhodes found that in that provincial field there were some things stronger than shekels.
• It would have been characteristic of these kindly provincial innkeepers to have done just that thing.
• Herkimer was a citizen noted for his integrity and had been made a brigadier-general in the provincial army.
• The rustic beauty of the hamlet has been copiously eulogized by antiquarians and provincial historians.
• It's only in the capital that you find bon-ton and not a lot of provincial lubbers.
• Baudraye's drawing-room a sort of oasis where there was a truce to provincial life.
• The rapidly growing republicanism of the provincial and proprietary governments was ignored and allowed to develop unchecked.
• Equally delusive are the prospects held out that the new system of cheap provincial justice will be a change unconditionally for the better.
• The loss of self-government had opened to them perforce a field far wider than the narrow confines of a provincial citizenship.
• The gypsies bore the pressure with the serene equanimity of cosmopolite superiority, smiling at provincial rawness.
• The colonies had again been partially stripped of their defenders, and five hundred provincial rangers accompanied the regulars.
• You will have temporary rank as captain given you, in order to place your corps on an equal footing with the provincial corps of scouts.
• Nothing makes provincial folks so angry as the notion of having been a laughing-stock for Paris folks.
• The faintly pungent odour of moss rose to his nostrils, as in some deep, undiscovered retreat in a provincial preserve.
• As she had no standard of comparison, Dinah fell into the snares that surround the provincial woman.
• And she strove to make him happy, to give him the sense of a sheltered home by dint of such economy and method as are familiar to provincial folks.
• A provincial coquette, still this side of middle age, educated on novels and albums and on fussing with household affairs and servants.
• In the event of the provincial scouts making any concerted movement against a French post, you would be authorized to join them.
• Of the provincial soldiers he said that, in the morning they fought like boys, about noon like men, and in the afternoon like devils.
• After the provincial taxation, there are local charges, which may possibly add a further 2 or 3 per cent, to the total amount.
• He was elected provincial for the second time, in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-two, and definitor in the chapter of thirty-five.
• All the provincial officers, even the great-priors, were subject to the visitors, as the representatives of the Master.
• John Kemble said, that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
• Further, Parliament had regulated provincial coinage and money, had set up a postal service, and established rates.
• The names that blazon our provincial scroll Ring round the world with Britain's drumbeat roll!
• It is pleasing to look back to the time, little more than one hundred years ago, when Bristol was the premier provincial post town.
• A partially insane man to believe himself the Provincial Governor or other great official of Massachusetts.

• You take me for a silly provincial wench.
• This is one of the natural results of a provincial life.
• Now the second provincial Chapter is held.
• For Nasik is no ordinary provincial town of India.
• The Smoke-room of a Provincial Hotel.
• The ladies of Nantucket have never been provincial in their fashions.
• Many a saint in a small provincial town is a devil of a dog in the Metropolis.
• Did any provincial woman ever yet find her sea-legs in Paris?