country-life

These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses for a powerful mind, over the artificial and curtailed life of cities.

Nature 2006

His wife was as ignorant as a new-born babe of everything that related to the conduct of a family; and she had no idea of a country-life.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Year-tide with us; not that he wanted to do it (for he hated country-life), but because my mother pressing, as mothers will do to a good bag of gold, had wrung a promise from him; and the only boast of his life was that never yet had he broken his word, at least since he opened business.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

A dog-kennel and a beehive stood outside, like symbols of old English country-life; the moon was rising behind a plantation of prosperous pear trees, the dog that came out of the kennel was reverend-looking and reluctant to bark; and the plain, elderly man-servant who opened the door was brief but dignified.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

A dog-kennel and a beehive stood outside, like symbols of old English country-life; the moon was rising behind a plantation of prosperous pear trees, the dog that came out of the kennel was reverend-looking and reluctant to bark; and the plain, elderly man-servant who opened the door was brief but dignified.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Yet Wordsworth loved intensely all the more beautiful aspects of the country, and of country-life.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

The sea-breezes, he declared, were just the sort of tonic he needed, and the quiet country-life the very thing he had been longing for for years.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

I have not dared to touch her save as a shadow picture in the background of the quiet English country-life which now is gone for ever.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Poetic feeling was more lacking in the country-life than in the illustrative literature of the century.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

= -- In striking contrast to such a defective rural institution as has been presented is the new rural school and the country-life movement of which it is a vital part.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe