townsfolks

And the farmers and the townsfolks and the students all got together and said "No Nukes."

Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009

BROOKS: Well, some of the townsfolks here are used to it.

CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2003 2003

This was more oriented toward equating townsfolks with what a rural community looked like, how it operated.

Oral History Interview with Edward S. Johnson, October 28, 1985. Interview K-0012. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1985

Bethany might be called Magdalene, both for the nearness of the town, where perhaps she was married, and also for the lascivious manners of the townsfolks, with which spot it is commonly believed Mary Magdalene had been tainted?

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

When the townsfolks had comfortably nestled themselves in their hovels, the old chief, with a show of some formality, presented me a heavy ram-goat, distinguished for its formidable head-ornaments, which, he said, was offered as a _bonne-bouche_, for my supper.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

She wondered if her uncle's townsfolks all held Walkworthy Dexter's opinion of the Day family?

Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

As the red light of the torches fell on steel caps and polished hauberks, on the serried ranks of pikemen, and the circle of whitefaced townsfolks, the picturesque old square looked doubly picturesque and he who sat in the midst, its master, doubly a hero.

In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891

She was referred by the sentry at the stoop to a room on the ground floor, her entrance being accompanied by the man shouting down the hallway: "Here 's wan more av thim townsfolks, sir."

Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

At home, in our church and among our townsfolks, I always tried to get on the societies which are unknown to public fame; and there, any little thing which I can diligently do brings its own reward.

Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

Meshach Milburn, on the testimony of Jack Wonnell, had actually been and gone and disappeared in Judge Custis's doorway, and nearly a dozen townsfolks were now discussing the why and wherefore, when, suddenly,

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877