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  • It makes cityfolk think twice about that getaway to the country.

    Deanna Neil: Take a Hike, Kids 2009

  • Chung Quo -- Tad Williams, in the middle of the 2nd book or so, the violent sex passages (well, that really ugly one) and plotline jumps from isolated locales to cityfolk threw me.

    Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish? 2007

  • Maybe you cityfolk don't understand why it is so "strange" that this has gotten any press at all.

    Saskatchewan Premier Criticised For Allowing His 14 Year Old Daughter To Drive 2008

  • Skinny and pasty with huge, thick glasses and crazy teeth, like a hard-core computer hacker who only leaves his basement in the summer to play with cityfolk in the forest.

    luvabeans Diary Entry luvabeans 2003

  • It was nearing midmorning, and the New City's broad avenues were crowded with throngs of cityfolk.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

  • By the same token, how would the reclusive islanders react to the noisy strangers, the aroma of fudge polluting their lake-washed air, and brash cityfolk wearing clown colors and trespassing on their sacred privacy?

    The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994

  • The chatter of the refugees and the cityfolk filled the air, replacing the roar of the tower.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The chatter of the refugees and the cityfolk filled the air, replacing the roar of the tower.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • Of the depredations they made on innocent cityfolk, of whole cities wiped out and the intermit'tent rule of true barbarism on this planet.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • She felt she had not had many anyway; the cityfolk had proven to be not very different from Texas folk, and did not live up to their legendary superiority.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

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