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Examples
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Eyeballing a recalcitrant old one abouta countrytown, and flowering vinesand a thing-with-too-many-legs.
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The attorney in a countrytown is as much a businessman as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis.
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It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most countrytown indifference to decorum.
Chapter VIII 1917
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To live long in such a countrytown would be like degrading myself for a purpose.
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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The factory was situated on the outskirts of a thriving countrytown near Manchester, and at the end of the lane that led from it to themore thickly populated part there was a path crossing a field to the prettychurch and church-yard, and this path was a short cut homeward for me.
Surly Tim's Trouble 1872
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It is totally deficient in churches, and theatres, and markets; or those it does possess are, in an architectural sense, not at all above the level of village or countrytown pretensions, but one or two of its national edifices do approach the magnificence and grandeur of the old world.
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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